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词汇 sugarcoat
释义 sugarcoat
verb[ T ]
(UKsugar-coat, sugar coat)uk /ˈʃʊɡ.ə.kəʊt/ us /ˈʃʊɡ.ɚ.koʊt/

sugarcoatverb[T] (HIDE TRUTH)


to make something seem more positive or pleasant than it really is: 美化,粉饰
We are not going to sugarcoat the facts for partisan gain.我们不打算为党派斗争粉饰事实。
It is not our job to sugar-coat the rise of hate crimes. The statistics are real.
We don't sugar coat anything about the hard work that is involved.
No one tried to sugarcoat it: bronze wasn't the medal the US team had come for.
She told it like it was and never sugar-coated anything.
He has a story to tell and makes no attempt to sugar-coat the truth.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Digressing and being indirect or evasive
bury the ledeidiom
candy coat
candy coating
candy-coated
circumlocution
circumlocutory
f-bomb
get on to/onto something
glancingly
gloss over something
go off on a tangentidiom
implicit
mealy-mouthed
obscure
parry
prevaricate
stray
tangent
unexpressed
unvoiced

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Polite and respectful

sugarcoatverb[T] (COVER WITH SUGAR)


to cover food or pills with a thin layer of sugar: 给…裹上一层糖衣
Various medicinal preparations in the form of pills have been sugarcoated to make them more palatable.
Sometimes pine kernels are sugar-coated, and the delicious result is called pinyonets.
See also
candy coat
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Various qualities of food
candy coat
candy-coated
citric
cordon bleu
creamily
farmhouse
fruity
halal
herby
homegrown
homemade
hoppy
nutritious
nutty
sharpness
shelf-stable
single-estate
store-bought
sugar-coated
unbalanced

Examples of sugarcoat


sugarcoat
Children who sugarcoat hostility may have difficulties being assertive, never developing better coping strategies or skills for self-expression.
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Wikipedia

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We're not going to try to sit here and try to sugarcoat what's happening right now or say something because it sounds good.
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Wikipedia

This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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