whitewash
美 [?hwa?t?wɑ?] 
英 [?wa?t?w??]
- v.粉飾；掩飾；粉刷（墻壁等）；刷石灰水
- n.粉飾；掩蓋；白涂料；完勝
- 網(wǎng)絡(luò)涂白；涂脂抹粉；白色涂料
詞形變化
第三人稱單數(shù)：whitewashes 現(xiàn)在分詞：whitewashing 過去式：whitewashed 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | [u] （粉刷用的）石灰水，白涂料a mixture of chalk or lime and water, used for painting houses and walls white |
2. | [u][sing] 粉飾；掩蓋an attempt to hide unpleasant facts about sb/sth |
| The opposition claimed the report was a whitewash. 反對派聲稱這份報告文過飾非。 |
3. | [c][ususing]
（在體育比賽中接連擊敗對手的）全勝，完勝(in sport) a victory in every game in a series |
1. | ~ sth 粉刷（墻壁等）；刷石灰水to cover sth such as a wall with whitewash |
2. | ~ sb/sth 掩飾；粉飾to try to hide unpleasant facts about sb/sth; to try to make sth seem better than it is |
| His wife had wanted to whitewash his reputation after he died. 他妻子在他死后本來想粉飾他的名聲。 |
3. | ~ sb/sth （在系列比賽中）完全擊敗，完勝to defeat an opponent in every game in a series |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
He thought for a moment and decided it was unnecessary to whitewash the other caves, and then he laid down his brush magnanimously .
他算來算去，覺得暫時沒有必要把更多的洞窟刷白，就刷這幾個吧，他達觀地放下了刷把。
Sighing, he began to whitewash the fence but did not enjoy it.
他嘆著氣，開始粉刷那片籬笆，但他一點都不喜歡干。
But why would Mr. Buffett now go out of his way to whitewash Mr. Sokol's departure?
但是，巴菲特現(xiàn)在為什么愿意不遺余力地為索科爾的離去文過飾非呢？
Researchers will need the skills exhibited by Tom Sawyer when he persuaded his friends it would be a joyous privilege to whitewash a fence.
研究員們需要TomSawyer展示出的技巧，那種可用來說服朋友們粉刷一堵圍墻是個令人快樂的特權(quán)的技巧。
When a police supervisor was unsatisfied with his detective's first attempt at a whitewash, he rewrote it to make it smoother.
當(dāng)一位警督對一位偵探的洗白試圖感到不滿意時，他干脆重寫證詞，以使之更不可疑。
The main aim is to identify the reflection, so the reflection corrective fault, not to be intoxicated with more can't whitewash.
反思的主要目的是找出過失及時糾正，所以反思決不可以陶醉于成績，更不可以文過飾非。
Please do not whitewash your inherent faults with your acquired virtues. I would have the faults; they are like mine own.
請你不要以后天的德行來粉飾作的先天的缺陷。我寧愿有缺陷；這些缺陷和我自己的一樣。
Tea out of an urn is always tasteless, while army tea, made in a cauldron, tastes of grease and whitewash.
用甕泡出來的茶總是淡而無味，而部隊里喝的茶是用鍋煮出來的，嘗起來有一股油脂和石灰水的味道。
Sighing, he began to whitewash the fence.
嘆氣，他開始用石灰水給柵欄刷白。
Please do not whitewash your inherent faults with your acquired virtues.
請不要用你后天的美德來粉飾你先天的缺陷。
On one occasion, Aunt Polly punished Tom to whitewash the wall, Tom wanted a way to get other children to help him to do.
有一次，波莉姨媽罰湯姆去粉刷墻，湯姆卻想辦法讓別的小孩幫他做。
The traveler's brain was in a whirl. To whitewash his embarrassment, he said hello to them.
他的腦子一陣旋轉(zhuǎn)，為了掩飾他的窘迫，他想她們問好。
Don't lie or try to whitewash facts, but don't feel you have to go into every topic completely, especially for a young child.
不要撒謊或者試圖粉飾事實。但也不要在每個細節(jié)上都過于深入，尤其是在面對特別小的孩子的時候。
Like a fence, character cannot be strengthened by whitewash.
就像籬笆，性格不能用粉飾來增強。
a whitewash or other water-based paint tinted with a colored pigment.
帶有各種色彩的涂料或水基漆。
It took me a whole Sunday to whitewash the wall.
我星期天花了一天來刷墻。
Tom appeared by a fence with a bucket of whitewash and a long brush.
湯姆提著一桶石灰水和拿著一把長刷子沿著柵欄出現(xiàn)了。
If he hadn't run out of whitewash , he would have bankrupted every boy in the village.
要不是他的灰漿用完了，恐怕全村每個孩子都要讓他弄得破產(chǎn)了。
"That's the nearest we could get to the word 'whitewash' in Latin, " says Hamilton, a bony finger tracing its outline.
“這是我們能找到的和拉丁語‘粉飾’最接近的東西，”漢密爾頓說著，用骨瘦如柴的手指描畫著它的輪廓。
Kelly described the failure of the report to recommend criminal prosecutions as a complete whitewash.
凱利還稱這份提出刑事控訴的報道文過飾非。
A: The basic tune of the textbook concocted by Japanese rightist scholars is to deny and whitewash Japan? s history of aggression.
答：這本日本右翼學(xué)者炮制的教科書的基調(diào)是否認和美化侵略歷史。
An initial investigation headed by Lord Widgery shortly after the shootings was regarded by Irish nationalists as a whitewash.
最初由威杰里勛爵領(lǐng)導(dǎo)調(diào)查在槍擊后匆匆完成，愛爾蘭民族主義者視之為涂脂抹粉。
Many attempts have been made to whitewash the man's reputation, but the fact remains that he is a rogue.
雖然千方百計地掩蓋那個人的名聲，然而事實總是事實，他是一個流氓。
Heating pipes are left exposed and the walls covered in flaking whitewash, much like the homes Mr. Zhai lived in as a child.
暖氣管就露在外面，墻壁是白色的石灰水粉刷的，就像是翟先生兒時居住的房屋。
It was not the whitewash the commission's critics had predicted.
這份報告不是人權(quán)委員會的反對方之前估計的粉飾描寫。
As the mud filling the holes on the outside of the cabin dried, the settler might smooth and whitewash it.
由于泥填補漏洞的外面機艙干燥，定居者可能順利和粉飾它。
Each club must offer incentives for improvement, pose challenges and avoid whitewash evaluations to the more advanced or popular members.
事實上，每個分會都必須要激勵會員進步，接受挑戰(zhàn)，并要對資深或受歡迎的會員做有成效的講評。
Berlusconi appeared before each time, something must be careful to whitewash it.
老貝每次亮相前，都要細心地涂脂抹粉一番呢。
Man complained: talcum powder like a whitewash.
男人控訴：撲粉像刷墻。
Say, Jim, I'll fetch the water if you whitewash some of this fence.
吉姆，假如你幫我刷一下這柵欄，我就幫你把水提來。
Honesty: Demonstrating integrity; not giving in to temptations to whitewash the facts.
誠實：展示正直品質(zhì)，不屈服于掩蓋事實真相的誘惑。
Uhlmann, the federal prosecutor who led the probe, says Koch's after-the-fact response is a public relations whitewash.
領(lǐng)導(dǎo)這項調(diào)查的聯(lián)邦檢察人員烏爾曼說科赫公司的事后反應(yīng)是經(jīng)過粉飾的公關(guān)。
To whitewash is to gloss over defects or make something seem presentable that isn't.
涂白（whitewash）是要掩飾缺陷或讓某個不像樣的東西看起來更好看些。
He tried to make a whitewash.
他想掩飾過去。
opposition dismissed the report as a whitewash.
反對黨認為這份報告過于修飾而不予理會。
He tried to whitewash his mistake, but he failed in the end.
他試著掩飾他的錯誤，可是他最終還是失敗了。
Scientists in Punjab who have studied the presence of uranium in the state have dismissed the government denials as a whitewash.
那些進行了實地調(diào)查的旁遮普科學(xué)家們批駁政府對事實的否認，稱他們在粉飾。
The official report on the Kennedy assassination was whitewash.
肯尼迪謀殺案的官方報導(dǎo)是掩飾之辭。
which critics say whitewash Japan's colonial and wartime atrocities.
據(jù)評論家說是粉飾日本戰(zhàn)時殖民暴行的。
The report calls an official enquiry into this damning event a "whitewash" .
這份報告稱官方對這種爆炸事件“文過飾非。”
