英语释义

• a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score

• wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces

• cover with whitewash;

  "whitewash walls"

• cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error;

  "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"

  "She tried to gloss over her mistakes"

• a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects

• exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data

片语

embroidery刺绣；刺绣品；粉饰

whitewash document清洗交易文件

mask掩饰；戴面具；化装

whitewash h粉饰

to whitewash粉刷

whitewash brush白灰刷帚

belie掩饰；与…不符；使失望；证明…虚假错误

window dressing粉饰；修饰外表；橱窗装饰

whitewash gypsum粉刷石膏

trunk whitewash树干刷白

whitewash transaction清洗交易

英汉例句

• it was not the whitewash the commission「s critics had predicted.

  这同委员会的评论员所预料的粉饰太平可大不一样。

• to whitewash is to gloss over defects or make something seem presentable that isn」t.

  涂白（whitewash）是要掩饰缺陷或让某个不像样的东西看起来更好看些。

• say, tom, let me whitewash a little.

  喂，汤姆，让我来刷点儿看看。

• south korea is reportedly angry at what it calls attempts by japan to whitewash its military past.

  据报道，韩国对日本企图美化日本军国历史表示愤怒。

• sighing, he began to whitewash the fence.

  叹息，他对白色涂料开始了围墻。

• you shouldn’t whitewash it.

  你不应该粉饰。

• say, jim, i「ll fetch the water if you」ll whitewash some.

  喂，吉姆，如果你来刷点墻，我就去提水。

• tom appeared by a fence with a bucket of whitewash and a long brush.

  汤姆提着一桶石灰水和拿着一把长刷子沿着栅栏出现了。

• it said: the report is entirely as we expected — a witch-hunt against us and a whitewash for the government.

  它说：这份报告是完全如我们所预料-一个巫婆，对我们和政府粉饰狩猎。

• the traveler's brain was in a whirl. to whitewash his embarrassment, he said hello to them.

  他的脑子一阵旋转，为了掩饰他的窘迫，他想她们问好。

• every euro-zone finance minister should be forced to explain the whitewash 「stress tests」 that gave even dexia a clean bill of health earlier this year.

  每一位欧元区的金融部长必须解释他们所掩饰的「压力测试」，今年早些时候在测试中给予dexia明确的健康的结果。

• that stage i chose bright and abstract colors to whitewash and escape my life, but, it was a failure again.

  这个阶段我选择了绚丽而抽象的色调来粉饰与逃避自己的生活，结果又是一次失败。

• the ensemble can be seen as a contextual patchwork made of prefabricated red shingles, timber pillars, zinc, flower pots, copper, whitewash plaster and coarse concrete left rough.

  乐团可以看作是内容拼凑了预制红色带状疱疹，木材支柱，锌，花盆，铜，粉饰灰泥和粗具体左粗糙。

• how scientific and rational verification and identification whitewash profits of listed companies, the accounting profession is the need to discuss an important subject.

  如何科学、合理的验证和识别上市公司粉饰利润的行为，是会计界需要讨论的一个重要课题。

• researchers will need the skills exhibited by tom sawyer when he persuaded his friends it would be a joyous privilege to whitewash a fence.

  研究员们需要tomsawyer展示出的技巧，那种可用来说服朋友们粉刷一堵围墻是个令人快乐的特权的技巧。

• but the price of protecting their comfort would be high: if we whitewash the abuses of the past eight years, we’ll guarantee that they will happen again.

  然而，放纵他们过安稳日子也要付出很高的代价：如果我们对过去八年的滥权予以掩饰，我们敢担保，他们将来还会故技重演。

相似词

chalk用粉笔写；用白垩粉擦；获得（成功），记录（得分等）；记下（欠账等）；把某事归因于；变成白垩状

varnish装饰，粉饰；在…上涂清漆；使…有光泽

embellish装饰起来；加以润色