whitewash

• n. 粉飾；白色塗料；石灰水
• vt. 掩飾；把…刷白

比喻用法。

whitewash (v.)

1590s, "to wash a building surface with white liquid," from white (adj.) + wash (v.). Figurative sense of "to cover up, conceal, give a false appearance of cleanness to" is attested from 1762. Related: Whitewashed; whitewashing. The noun is recorded from 1690s; in the figurative sense from 1851. The earlier verb was whitelime (c. 1300).

1. The report's findings were condemned as total whitewash.

這份報告最後的結論被譴責為徹頭徹尾的粉飾。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The opposition claimed the report was a whitewash.

反對派聲稱這份報告文過飾非。

來自《權威詞典》

3. They tried hard to whitewash themselves.

他們力圖粉飾自己.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. What he said was a load of whitewash.

他所說的是一大堆粉飾之詞.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. He pledged that there would be no whitewash and that the police would carry out a full investigation.

他保證將不會有任何掩飾，並且警方將進行全麵調查。

來自柯林斯例句