gloss over
英 [ɡlɒs ˈəʊvə(r)]
美 [ɡlɑːs ˈoʊvər]
粉饰; 掩盖; 掩饰
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 粉饰；掩盖；掩饰
If yougloss overa problem, a mistake, or an embarrassing moment, you try and make it seem unimportant by ignoring it or by dealing with it very quickly.- Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
一些外国政府似乎很乐于掩盖不断出现的侵犯人权现象。
- Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
英英释义
verb
- cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
- Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin
- She tried to gloss over her mistakes
- treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
双语例句
- It is bad policy to gloss over the difficulties.
掩盖困难是不明智的。 - Our metrics are geared toward consumption and production of man-made goods and services, and we tend to gloss over nature.
我们的测量都集中围绕在人造产品和服务的生产和消费上，我们常常掩盖了自然的价值。 - The stock market indiscriminately all attributed to the bubble, put it bluntly, but some are too keen on the artificial gloss over their mistakes managers of market manipulation.
把股市的问题不分青红皂白一概归咎于泡沫，说穿了，不过是某些过于热衷于人工造市的管理者文过饰非的需要。 - John tried in vain to gloss over his faults.
约翰极力想掩饰自己的缺点，但是没有用。 - This is no to gloss over out problems, or to underestimate the scale of what is required.
这不是粉饰我们面对的困难，或者低估所需要做的努力的规模。 - Both sides yesterday were at pains to gloss over differences and focus on areas of common cause concerning the economic and financial crisis.
昨日双方都刻意掩饰分歧，聚焦于应对当前经济和金融危机这一共同事业。 - Unfortunately, corporate risk management tends to gloss over network effects and it is quite often myopic.
遗憾的是，企业风险管理往往掩盖了这种网络效应，并且经常缺乏远见。 - Don't gloss over the comments at the bottom of each page: some of the best and most up-to-date information can be found in the user-contributed notes.
不要忽视每一页下面的用户评论，一些相当不错的最新信息都会在这里找到。 - Correct your mistake the moment you realize it and don't try to gloss over your mistake.
要知过必改，不要文过饰非。 - He poses the question that most Americans prefer to gloss over: is California governable?
他提出了一个大多数美国人不愿正视的问题：加州能治理好吗？