1590s, "to wash a building surface with white liquid," from white (adj.) + wash (v.). Figurative sense of "to cover up, conceal, give a false appearance of cleanness to" is attested from 1762. Related: Whitewashed; whitewashing. The noun is recorded from 1690s; in the figurative sense from 1851. The earlier verb was whitelime (c. 1300).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The report's findings were condemned as total whitewash.
這份報(bào)告最后的結(jié)論被譴責(zé)為徹頭徹尾的粉飾。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. The opposition claimed the report was a whitewash.
反對(duì)派聲稱這份報(bào)告文過(guò)飾非。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. They tried hard to whitewash themselves.
他們力圖粉飾自己.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
4. What he said was a load of whitewash.
他所說(shuō)的是一大堆粉飾之詞.
來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. He pledged that there would be no whitewash and that the police would carry out a full investigation.