Whitewash
['waɪtwɒʃ] or ['waɪtwɑʃ]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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.
艾德丽安錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Anyhow, with whitewash from the wall on my forehead, my obstinacy was adamantine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The lime destroys the color, and the color has an effect on the whitewash which makes it crack and peel. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy perhaps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- They are very thick, and are often plastered and whitewashed and capped with projecting slabs of cut stone. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In front of him was one of the whitewashed stones that marked the edge of the road. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The walls were whitewashed as white as milk, and the patchwork counterpane made my eyes quite ache with its brightness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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. 科學通論.
- With dramatic suddenness he struck a match, and by its light exposed a stain of blood upon the whitewashed wall. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- 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. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
整理:怀亚特