whitewashed

英 [ˈwaɪtwɒʃt]

美 [ˈwaɪtwɑːʃt]

v.  粉刷(墙壁等); 刷石灰水; 掩饰; 粉饰; (在系列比赛中)完全击败，完胜
whitewash的过去分词和过去式

过去式：whitewashed　过去分词：whitewashed　

BNC.23947 / COCA.20840

柯林斯词典

• (粉刷用的)石灰水，白涂料
  Whitewashis a mixture of lime or chalk and water that is used for painting walls white.
• VERB 用石灰水粉刷
  If a wall or buildinghas been whitewashed, it has been painted white with whitewash.
  1. The walls had been whitewashed.
     墙已经用石灰水刷过了。
  2. ...a town of picturesque whitewashed cottages.
     一座座小屋粉刷得洁白而漂亮的城镇
• VERB 粉饰;掩饰
  If you say that peoplewhitewashsomething, you are accusing them of hiding the unpleasant facts or truth about it in order to make it acceptable.
  1. The administration is whitewashing the regime's actions...
     政府在粉饰该政权的行为。
  2. 'The whole incident was whitewashed,' he claimed yesterday.
     “整个事件都已经被粉饰过了，”他昨日声称。
• N-UNCOUNT 粉饰;掩饰
  Whitewashis an attempt to hide the unpleasant facts or truth about someone or something.
  1. He pledged that there would be no whitewash and that the police would carry out a full investigation...
     他保证将不会有任何掩饰，并且警方将进行全面调查。
  2. The report's findings were condemned as total whitewash.
     这份报告最后的结论被谴责为彻头彻尾的粉饰。
• VERB 轻易战胜；使（对手）得零分
  In sports, if a player or teamwhitewashesan opponent, they win very easily, and their opponent does not get any points at all.
  1. Not since 1988 had she whitewashed an opponent in her opening match...
     自1988年以来她还从未在开场赛中让对手吃过鸭蛋。
  2. Their leading players were being whitewashed 4-0.
     他们的主力阵容以0比4惨败。

英英释义

adj

• coated with whitewash
  1. miles of whitewashed fences

双语例句

• When she found the entire fence white-washed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable.
  当她发现整个墙都已刷过了，不仅刷了而且是刷了一遍又一遍，甚至连地上还抹了一块，她惊讶得无法形容。
• Inside the city itself, posters and whitewashed slogans appeared on the walls and even on the pillboxes of the Kuomintang soldiers.
  在市内房屋的墙上，甚至在蒋军的碉堡上，都出现了张贴的或用白灰浆刷写的标语。
• You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
  因为你们好像粉饰的坟墓，外面好看，里面却装满了死人的骨头，和一切的污秽。
• Who are the barbarians who put footprints on whitewashed walls, who throw chewing gum and cigarette butts on the stairs, who spit and even blow their nose on the floor?
  那些把脚印留在粉刷得白白的墙上、把嚼过的口香糖和烟蒂扔到楼梯上、把痰吐到甚至把鼻涕擤到地板上的野蛮人是谁呢？
• The walls had been whitewashed.
  墙已经用石灰水刷过了。
• The wall has just been whitewashed.
  墙刚粉过。
• The walls were whitewashed as white as milk.
  墙壁粉刷得像牛奶一般洁白。
• They lived in an old whitewashed converted farmhouse.
  他们住在一座经粉刷并改建过的农庄旧宅内。
• We walk on past whitewashed cottages and ancient trees just holding on to the last of their leaves.
  我们继续走，穿过许多刷成白色的农舍，古老的树木上仍然依依不舍地挂着几片树叶。
• Around me the splendid Hotel Mirana revolved as a kind of private universe, a whitewashed cosmos within the blue greater one that blazed outside.
  在我周围，华丽的米拉娜饭店象一个私有宇宙旋转着，象一个粉白白的宇宙体嵌在更大的、在外围熠熠闪光的蓝宇宙中。