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. 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: 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 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 sugarcoatsugarcoat Children who sugarcoat hostility may have difficulties being assertive, never developing better coping strategies or skills for self-expression. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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. From 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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