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英:['ʃʊgəˌkəʊt]
美:['ʃʊgəˌkoʊt]
sug·ar·coat
shU gr kot
sugarcoats, sugarcoating, sugarcoated
Verb
1. coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
2. cause to appear more pleasant or appealing;
"The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts"
back-formation from sugarcoated
The first known use of sugarcoat was in 1858
sugarcoatverb
to coat with or as if with sugar
1 As per his custom, the coach didn’t sugarcoat his words, perhaps because English was his second language.
2 The human predicament: the fact that we're living in a nightmare that everyone is making excuses for and having to find ways to sugarcoat.
人类面临的困境:事实上我们生活在一场恶梦当中,每个人都在自我欺骗,每个人都在自我粉饰。
3 Photograph: Murray Close/Warner Bros One of the primary appeals of the Hunger Games trilogy is its refusal to sugarcoat the scenarios Katniss finds herself in.
4 The stakes are high, the revelations are serious and Callender doesn’t sugarcoat.
5 “They are right that it is no longer an independent art school. There’s no sugarcoating it.”
6 “Still” certainly doesn’t sugarcoat Fox’s life with Parkinson’s.
7 Ms. Blecher draws fine performances out of the young actors and, to her credit, sugarcoats nothing.
8 Still, my biggest knock against “How Google Works” is that it sugarcoats or just plain omits much about what really goes on inside arguably the world’s most influential company.
9 And there’s at least one good reason to believe We Tell Ourselves Stories will neither sugarcoat nor edit out the unsavory bits: Didion’s already written it all down anyway.
10 People come back from vacation and kind of sugarcoat everything.
人们度假归来,总爱说些好听的。
11 At the same time, her suffering isn’t sugarcoated.
12 “I didn’t sugarcoat my feelings about politics,” she writes.
13 Meanwhile, in the “Mother Goose” Suite, she proved a fondly evocative storyteller, exquisitely careful with colorful orchestral details yet refusing, even here, to sugarcoat.
14 In that sense, the best books offer a way to read the stakes for what they are, no apologies, no sugarcoating, just one human addressing another, a single conversation at a time.
15 The author sugarcoats nothing about her ordeal and the damage done.
16 She has very strong opinions, and she doesn't try to sugarcoat them.
17 Barnes also noted, "I don’t want to try to sugarcoat everything, because we do see some things that are unfortunate."
18 Union Station’s arrangements, immaculate and drumless, hint at old-timey roots without a glimmer of purism, and they never sugarcoat the sorrow.
19 But Prince never sugarcoated things for her, even as he molded her into a star.
20 Ned: You were strangled to death with a plastic sack. It's probably an odd thing to hear - I wasn't sure how to sugarcoat it.
你确实被个塑料袋套上给闷死了。可能听着挺怪的,我不晓得怎么说才能好听点。
1 使甜蜜
2 美化
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3 粉饰
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