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常见例句

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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Tom Sawyer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。

原声例句

• Chilcot sought to counter criticism that his committee might be biased and its report would be a whitewash.
• "We will not be party to any whitewash when it comes to the elections."

权威例句

• In rebutting the arguments of Mr Judt and others, their aim is not to whitewash Israel.
  ECONOMIST: Israel
• But rarely does a national news organization give them an unverified megaphone to whitewash it.
  FORBES: Jilted Ex Blasts NY Times Over 'Vows' Story: 'Revisionist History'
• And the latter approach is no less bigoted than the hatred it serves to whitewash.
  CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: About those Jews
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