sugar the pill

sugar the pill

美 　英

• na.把藥丸加上糖衣；把痛苦的事弄成易于接受的；加糖衣
• 網絡給人一點甜頭安慰一下；給點甜頭安慰一下；把困難的事情美化

英漢解釋

na.	1. 把藥丸加上糖衣,把令人痛苦的事情說得委婉些;把痛苦的事弄成易于接受的 2. 加糖衣,美化討厭的東人

例句

So , what other words might be used to smooth the path , oil the wheels, sugar the pill ?

那么，還有哪些詞可以用來鋪平道路，為齒輪加潤滑油，給藥丸價格糖衣呢？。

Whenever he wants to borrow money from me, he will try to sugar the pill by saying that he will return the money very soon.

每次他來向我借錢，總是花言巧語，說很快就會把錢還我。

He has tried to sugar the pill with a layer of "social" policies and rhetoric.

他試圖用“社會”政策和花言巧語讓單一市場的理念更容易被人接受。

We have to make two people redundant but we Can sugar the pill by giving them very generous severance payments.

我們得把兩個多余的人辭退，但如果我們給他們非常優厚的解職費，就很容易將這件難以處理的事辦好。