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

• By putting thin paper over the map, he traced it.
  他把薄纸覆盖在地图上，将它描了下来。
• 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。
• Some people have argued that using antidepressants in the setting of depression is not a good idea because these only paper over the "real" problems in people's lives.
  一些人认为在抑郁的过程中使用抗抑郁药并不是个好主意，这是因为在人们的生活中那不是真正的疾病。
• Once they find the name, many rub a pencil on paper over the letters to copy it.
  每当他们找到了，他们都会用铅笔和纸将这个名字抄下来。
• Turn the paper over to the other side.
  把纸翻转到另一面。
• 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。
• This is a device to paper over the cracks in government policy.
  这是掩盖政府政策失误的一种手法。
• Then, they spread some brightly coloured paper over the frame and glued it around the string.
  然后，他们把一些颜色鲜艳的纸涂上胶水，粘在风筝的框架上。
• 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。
• She used layers of paper over a wall to describe how we hide our original selves, and said that by peeling away those layers one by one, we see the underlying original beneath.
  她用糊在墙壁上的一层层的壁纸来形容我们是如何将真实的自我隐藏起来的，并且说一层一层地剥去那些壁纸，我们便会发现藏在下面的纯真。