音标:['hwaitwɒʃ] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
n. 白色涂料, 粉饰, 得零分的惨败
n. a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
n. wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
n. a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
v. cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
词型变化:过去分词 : whitewashed ; 过去式 : whitewashed ; 现在分词 : whitewashing ; 名词复数形式 : whitewashes ; 第三人称单数 : whitewashes
考试类型:[四级/六级/考研]
词性分布:
动词64%
名词36%

whitewash的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. That whole affair was a whitewash.那整个事件都是文过饰非。
  2. The opposition dismissed the report as a whitewash.反对党认为这份报告过于修饰而不予理会。
用作动词(v.)
  1. You should whitewash the door of your hall.你应当粉刷你大厅的门。
  2. His wife wanted to whitewash his reputation after he died.他妻子在他死后想粉饰他的名声。
  3. Their leading players were whitewashed 4-0.他们的主力队员被4比0彻底击败。

经典引文

  • The floor is reddled; the walls white-washed.

    出自:G. M. Woodward
  • Workmen..repairing, painting, and white-washing.

    出自:absol.
【近义词】

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学英语单词
1-naphthyldiphenylcarbinol
5-methoxytryptophol
advance in price
alginate rayon
axerophthol
backup circuit breaker
banner pk.
Bilup
biphenoxide
breadfruit
Burmannia championii
carparks
choke-flow condition
clock-face timetable
clusterised
coalitionism
cryptograined texture
decline of sale
degelatinized bone dust
denwoods
dext
diathermy of choroid
ectocentral
elephantipes
erewhons
ethylic
false diverticulum of bladder
ferrinatrite
fruit dehydrator
gage tap
gases exchange between ocean
geothermobarometers
h.a.
hektograph
helsinkis
herkol
hinesville
Impatiens noli-tangere
in shadow
inactivation center
indeterminancy
interest method of account current
intermediate merchant
inthrallments
isokinetically
judgment debt
kewda
kinetochore microtubule
Kings R.
lather booster
lay in the oars
linear interpolation
logical channel
minus tapping
mullas
multipartisms
muon detector
nonfines concrete
Oligoporus leucospongia
Oppdal
outdevice
parallelism of disease
parenetic
peeces
perioval precipitation rate
peripheal angle
peter
Pharm.D.
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
pitz
positive balance
proton inertia
pull ... weight
Raabs an der Thaya
ramiprilat
rehash strategy
retardation axis
ring-necked pheasant
sarcinae
screaming-yellow
set the watch
short distance transport
situation as a whole
Skepasto
standard hour system
Steeleville
stencil-like
subfeature
talking about
target folder
thymonucleodepolymerase
thyroma
tickle sb's vanity
to trash
tray boot
trial-and-error search
twll
tyre-trueing machine
unloading bay
veneer edge bander
vernoguinoside
zeuxes