whitewash
美 [ˈhwaɪtˌwɑʃ] 
英 [ˈwaɪtˌwɒʃ]
- v.粉饰；掩饰；粉刷（墙壁等）；刷石灰水
- n.粉饰；掩盖；白涂料；完胜
- 网络涂白；涂脂抹粉；白色涂料
词形变化
第三人称单数：whitewashes 现在分词：whitewashing 过去式：whitewashed 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
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] 粉饰；掩盖an attempt to hide unpleasant facts about sb/sth |
| The opposition claimed the report was a whitewash. 反对派声称这份报告文过饰非。 |
3. | [c][ususing]
（在体育比赛中接连击败对手的）全胜，完胜(in sport) a victory in every game in a series |
1. | ~ sth 粉刷（墙壁等）；刷石灰水to cover sth such as a wall with whitewash |
2. | ~ sb/sth 掩饰；粉饰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. 他妻子在他死后本来想粉饰他的名声。 |
3. | ~ sb/sth （在系列比赛中）完全击败，完胜to defeat an opponent in every game in a series |
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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 .
他算来算去，觉得暂时没有必要把更多的洞窟刷白，就刷这几个吧，他达观地放下了刷把。
Sighing, he began to whitewash the fence but did not enjoy it.
他叹着气，开始粉刷那片篱笆，但他一点都不喜欢干。
But why would Mr. Buffett now go out of his way to whitewash Mr. Sokol's departure?
但是，巴菲特现在为什么愿意不遗余力地为索科尔的离去文过饰非呢？
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墙是个令人快乐的特权的技巧。
When a police supervisor was unsatisfied with his detective's first attempt at a whitewash, he rewrote it to make it smoother.
当一位警督对一位侦探的洗白试图感到不满意时，他干脆重写证词，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过失及时纠正，所以反思决不可以陶醉于成绩，更不可以文过饰非。
Please do not whitewash your inherent faults with your acquired virtues. I would have the faults; they are like mine own.
请你不要以后天的德行来粉饰作的先天的缺陷。我宁愿有缺陷；这些缺陷和我自己的一样。
Tea out of an urn is always tasteless, while army tea, made in a cauldron, tastes of grease and whitewash.
用瓮泡出来的茶总是淡而无味，而部队里喝的茶是用锅煮出来的，尝起来有一股油脂和石灰水的味道。
Sighing, he began to whitewash the fence.
叹气，他开始用石灰水给栅栏刷白。
Please do not whitewash your inherent faults with your acquired virtues.
请不要用你后天的美德来粉饰你先天的缺陷。
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，波莉姨妈罚汤姆去粉刷墙，汤姆却想办法让别的小孩帮他做。
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。
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.
不要撒谎或者试图粉饰事实。但也不要在每个细节上都过于深入，尤其是在面对特别小的孩子的时候。
Like a fence, character cannot be strengthened by whitewash.
就像篱笆，性格不能用粉饰来增强。
a whitewash or other water-based paint tinted with a colored pigment.
带有各种色彩的涂料或水基漆。
It took me a whole Sunday to whitewash the wall.
我星期天花了一天来刷墙。
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。
If he hadn't run out of whitewash , he would have bankrupted every boy in the village.
要不是他的灰浆用完了，恐怕全村每个孩子都要让他弄得破产了。
"That's the nearest we could get to the word 'whitewash' in Latin, " says Hamilton, a bony finger tracing its outline.
“这是我们能找到的和拉丁语‘粉饰’最接近的东西，”汉密尔顿说着，用骨瘦如柴的手指描画着它的轮廓。
Kelly described the failure of the report to recommend criminal prosecutions as a complete whitewash.
凯利还称这份提出刑事控诉的报道文过饰非。
A: The basic tune of the textbook concocted by Japanese rightist scholars is to deny and whitewash Japan? s history of aggression.
答：这本日本右翼学者炮制的教科书的基调是否认和美化侵略历史。
An initial investigation headed by Lord Widgery shortly after the shootings was regarded by Irish nationalists as a whitewash.
最初由威杰里勋爵领导调查在枪击后匆匆完成，爱尔兰民族主义者视之为涂脂抹粉。
Many attempts have been made to whitewash the man's reputation, but the fact remains that he is a rogue.
虽然千方百计地掩盖那个人的名声，然而事实总是事实，他是一个流氓。
Heating pipes are left exposed and the walls covered in flaking whitewash, much like the homes Mr. Zhai lived in as a child.
暖气管就露在外面，墙壁是白色的石灰水粉刷的，就像是翟先生儿时居住的房屋。
It was not the whitewash the commission's critics had predicted.
这份报告不是人权委员会的反对方之前估计的粉饰描写。
As the mud filling the holes on the outside of the cabin dried, the settler might smooth and whitewash it.
由于泥填补漏洞的外面机舱干燥，定居者可能顺利和粉饰它。
Each club must offer incentives for improvement, pose challenges and avoid whitewash evaluations to the more advanced or popular members.
事实上，每个分会都必须要激励会员进步，接受挑战，并要对资深或受欢迎的会员做有成效的讲评。
Berlusconi appeared before each time, something must be careful to whitewash it.
老贝每次亮相前，都要细心地涂脂抹粉一番呢。
Man complained: talcum powder like a whitewash.
男人控诉：扑粉像刷墙。
Say, Jim, I'll fetch the water if you whitewash some of this fence.
吉姆，假如你帮我刷一下这栅栏，我就帮你把水提来。
Honesty: Demonstrating integrity; not giving in to temptations to whitewash the facts.
诚实：展示正直品质，不屈服于掩盖事实真相的诱惑。
Uhlmann, the federal prosecutor who led the probe, says Koch's after-the-fact response is a public relations whitewash.
领导这项调查的联邦检察人员乌尔曼说科赫公司的事后反应是经过粉饰的公关。
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。
He tried to make a whitewash.
他想掩饰过去。
opposition dismissed the report as a whitewash.
反对党认为这份报告过于修饰而不予理会。
He tried to whitewash his mistake, but he failed in the end.
他试着掩饰他的错误，可是他最终还是失败了。
Scientists in Punjab who have studied the presence of uranium in the state have dismissed the government denials as a whitewash.
那些进行了实地调查的旁遮普科学家们批驳政府对事实的否认，称他们在粉饰。
The official report on the Kennedy assassination was whitewash.
肯尼迪谋杀案的官方报导是掩饰之辞。
which critics say whitewash Japan's colonial and wartime atrocities.
据评论家说是粉饰日本战时殖民暴行的。
The report calls an official enquiry into this damning event a "whitewash" .
这份报告称官方对这种爆炸事件“文过饰非。”
