(v.) To describe a situation, item, or position as better or more desirable than a person with a disinterested standpoint might contend. Often people will use this term either to make an item more attractive for sale or downplay the risks or dangers of a situation or position.
> Randy: Hey, check our my '86 [Yugo]. Slick-shifting four speed, [Eastern Europe]an engineering, easy to service. All yours for $11,000.
> [Brooklyn]: You're [candy coat]ing the situation. Bald tires, [mad] rust spots, sagging shocks -- this car is a [piece of crap].

Candy is trying to get her boyfriend Benny to quit smoking. (C=Candy; B=Benny) C: Benny, your breath smells like an ashtray. You've got to stop smoking! B: I know. I want to, but it isn't easy. C: Why

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今天Larry 和Li Hua下课以后在电影院门口商量看什么电影。Li Hua会学到两个常用语:eye candy 和 bazillion。 LH: Hmm, 我想看Troy. 听说这部电影挺棒的! LL: I don'

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Lesson 75 Three cheers for Billy The children are enjoying Billy's birthday party. They're wearing funny hats. They're laughing and playing games. Now they're eating sandwiches, cakes and biscuits. They're drinking lemonade, too. Billy's birthday ca

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Noticing your age--getting older When do you feel like you are getting older? Is it when the songs you liked when you were young are now considered all this but good east to the next generation? When I was younger, I rarely liked classic music or jaz

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Good news for chilly doctorsyou can wear long sleeves with impunity inside hospitals, because University of Colorado researchers find that docs pick up just as much bacter

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Well podlisteners, it is time to continue with important vocabulary about the homes that we live in. There is one room which helps me keep the house both clean and organized. It's the mudroom. It's name suggests that it gets very dirty, muddy even. T

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He was sitting on a crowded B train. He was wedged between two other passengers. He had no wiggle room. He felt his right leg tingling. It was going to sleep. He knew, if he just stood up before his stop, his leg would slowly wake up. But he remained

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If youre lucky enough to live near a museum with a collection of real 18th-century clothes, you can see the kind of fancy outfits Mozart wore. Its amazing to remember that these handsome clothes, usually embroidered, were made entirely by hand. The o

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学英语单词
a human failing
a.o.o.
alveloz
aspphirine(sapphirite)
Avellaneda
be distressed about sth
be ready to do sth
Berestyano
bullicks
child molesters
chorda
circle shear
cold setting adhesives
coldcreams
consecutive or running day
coolant distribution unit
cranial ganglia
crawlspace
Decimus
desoutter
dietician
diosmin
diplomatic rank
donatisms
dressed timber
drill points
ecological architecture
endolemma
engine nose inlet and inlet guide vanes
evilutionists
febrile psychosis
Friedmann's vasomotor syndrome
ginepri
glycerophosphorylcholine
hard drawn copper pipe
high-speed plotter
I-E characteristic
ice blade
international crime
inventory of the property
isoreaction grade
Jat
jnopamil
Kaibab Plateau
Kirschroth
kloben
lachnum pteridophyllum
launch velocity
legalist school
limited life asset
load resistance photocell
Lopping-forest
mailing sleeve
mathematical model of load
member-of-parliament
multilevel priority interrupt
multiple simultaneous flow
musculi rotatores
musen's theory of artifical satellites
Niihari
nilprogression
Nishiwaki
olfactory sac
outer sheath
P.N.
paraxial mode
phano
pleated paper filter
pompions
power-tripped
prehabilitation
pure procedural justice
regular tree grammar
remaining strategy
resistivity sounding
rivet machine
rummage out
santogold
sary
sell oneself
sepage
shiri
short circit
Simengaon
sodium calciotantite
speilberger
squat-across type water closet
starting crank
sterol-sulfatase
superstr.
superteam
take a grasp on
taylorsville
Tekapo R.
toreador suits
training mine
type families
upleading
vanessa bells
variable column
X alloy
Zizania aquatica