paper over
英 [ˈpeɪpə(r) ˈəʊvə(r)]
美 [ˈpeɪpər ˈoʊvər]
掩盖，掩饰（分歧）
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 掩盖，掩饰（分歧）
If peoplepaper overa disagreement between them, they find a temporary solution to it in order to give the impression that things are going well.- ...his determination to paper over the cracks in his party and avoid confrontation...
他掩盖党内分歧、避免冲突的决心 - Differences were papered over but by no means were they fully resolved.
分歧被掩盖了，但是绝没有得到完全解决。
- ...his determination to paper over the cracks in his party and avoid confrontation...
双语例句
- He agreed to paper over the cracks for the period of the election.
他同意在选举期间暂时把分歧掩盖起来。 - It's silly to paper over the problem; it will only crop up again one day.
把这个问题掩盖起来的作法是愚蠢的，总有一天还会暴露的。 - Turn the paper over to the other side.
把纸翻转到另一面。 - Could you fling the paper over here?
请把那张报纸扔给我好吗？ - Turn the paper over and write your family situation on the back.
请在背面说明你的家庭状况。 - He turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show; the doctor's writing was illegible.
他把纸翻过来所以看不到字迹；这医生的字迹很难辨。 - We all know how treacherous are word, and how often we use them to paper over embarrassment or emptiness, or fear of the larger spaces that silence brings.
我们都知道语言有多么虚伪，我们记不清有多少次我们语言去掩饰自己的窘迫、空虚或对沉默带来得更大空间产生的恐惧。 - I have read the paper over.
我把报纸全部看完了。 - I just sort of hand the slips of paper over to the pharmacist.
我只是就这样把处方递给药剂师而已。 - Efforts by Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the French and German leaders, to paper over differences between Berlin and Paris on how to deal with the Greek debt crisis led to a summit statement in Brussels that stopped short of providing immediate support for Athens.
法国、德国领导人尼古拉萨科齐（nicolassarkozy）和安格拉默克尔（angelamerkel）努力掩盖两国之间关于如何处理希腊债务危机的分歧，导致在布鲁塞尔举行的欧盟首脑会议声明中，未宣布立即对希腊提供援助。