Whitewash
['waɪtwɒʃ] or ['waɪtwɑʃ]
解释:
(noun.) a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects.
(noun.) wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces.
(noun.) a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score.
(verb.) exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data.
(verb.) cover with whitewash; 'whitewash walls'.
(verb.) cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; 'Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin'; 'She tried to gloss over her mistakes'.
埃尔温整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair.
(n.) A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of lime.
(v. t.) To apply a white liquid composition to; to whiten with whitewash.
(v. t.) To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt) from obligation to pay debts.
格罗夫斯整理
娱乐性解释：
To dream that you are whitewashing, foretells that you will seek to reinstate yourself with friends by ridding yourself of offensive habits and companions. For a young woman, this dream is significant of well-laid plans to deceive others and gain back her lover who has been estranged by her insinuating bearing toward him.
艾德丽安录入
例句:
- Anyhow, with whitewash from the wall on my forehead, my obstinacy was adamantine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- The lime destroys the color, and the color has an effect on the whitewash which makes it crack and peel. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy perhaps. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- They are very thick, and are often plastered and whitewashed and capped with projecting slabs of cut stone. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In front of him was one of the whitewashed stones that marked the edge of the road. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- The walls were whitewashed as white as milk, and the patchwork counterpane made my eyes quite ache with its brightness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- We took our last look at the city, clinging like a whitewashed wasp's nest to the hill-side, and at eight o'clock in the morning departed. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- There was George Kitely, Lord Ragland's son, went through the Court last week, and was what they call whitewashed, I believe. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- A metal roof reflects so much light that the eyes are dazzled by it, and a whitewashed fence injures the eyes because of the glare which comes from the reflected light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- With dramatic suddenness he struck a match, and by its light exposed a stain of blood upon the whitewashed wall. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- You would wonder what this privilege of _whitewashing_ is: I will endeavour to give you some idea of the ceremony, as I have seen it performed. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
整理:怀亚特