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.
  1. ...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
  2. 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。

双语例句

• Could you fling the paper over here?
  请把那张报纸扔给我好吗？
• But announcements of a series of new clean energy initiatives, from carbon capture research to a project on electric cars, could not paper over the fact that both leaders had sharply downgraded prospects of a big deal on climate change in Copenhagen next month.
  但是，宣布一系列清洁能源方面的举措，从碳捕获研究到电动汽车项目，并不能掩盖一个事实，即美中两国领导人已大幅降低了下月哥本哈根气候变化会议上达成重大协定的可能性。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Would you glance my paper over and give me your opinion?
  你是不是看一看我的论文，给我提一些意见好吗？
• Although the cost of education has spiralled in recent years, incomes have not, prompting households to use debt to paper over the gap.
  尽管最近几年，教育成本呈螺旋式上升，但收入却没有同步增长，这促使家庭利用债务来弥补缺口。
• He tried to paper over the country's deep-seated problems.
  他试图掩盖该国一些根深蒂固的问题。
• 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。
• 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。