gloss over

英 [ɡlɒs ˈəʊvə(r)]

美 [ɡlɑːs ˈoʊvər]

粉饰; 掩盖; 掩饰

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 粉饰；掩盖；掩饰
  If yougloss overa problem, a mistake, or an embarrassing moment, you try and make it seem unimportant by ignoring it or by dealing with it very quickly.
  1. Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
     一些外国政府似乎很乐于掩盖不断出现的侵犯人权现象。

英英释义

verb

• cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
  1. Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin
  2. She tried to gloss over her mistakes
  Synonym:whitewashsleek overhush up
• treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
  Synonym:skate oversmooth overslur overskimp over

双语例句

• Double vision, night-vision disturbances and dry eye are among the side effects outlined in literature given to Lasik patients, but Kantis and others say physicians often gloss over the risks.
  复视、夜视障碍和眼睛干涩在给予激光手术病人的副作用说明资料里略为提及，但是Kantis和其他受害者说医生往往刻意掩盖这些风险。
• He tried to gloss over his errors.
  他企图掩饰自己的过失。
• Both sides yesterday were at pains to gloss over differences and focus on areas of common cause concerning the economic and financial crisis.
  昨日双方都刻意掩饰分歧，聚焦于应对当前经济和金融危机这一共同事业。
• It is bad policy to gloss over the difficulties.
  掩盖困难是不明智的。
• This introduction is designed to only give you an initial taste of what WSFL is and what it has to offer; therefore, it will gloss over the detailed concepts.
  这里的介绍只打算让您对WSFL是什么以及必须提供什么有个最初的了解，因此对一些概念的细节部分忽略不谈。
• Unfortunately, corporate risk management tends to gloss over network effects and it is quite often myopic.
  遗憾的是，企业风险管理往往掩盖了这种网络效应，并且经常缺乏远见。
• Our metrics are geared toward consumption and production of man-made goods and services, and we tend to gloss over nature.
  我们的测量都集中围绕在人造产品和服务的生产和消费上，我们常常掩盖了自然的价值。
• In this article, I'll discuss performance-based improvements to your code, but I'll also talk about things in the jQuery library that some people may gloss over.
  在本文中，我将讨论代码的性能改进，同时也谈及一些关于jQuery库的容易被忽视的问题。
• He could no longer gloss over his failures.
  他再也无法掩饰自己的失败。
• Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
  一些外国政府似乎很乐于掩盖不断出现的侵犯人权现象。