whitewash 中文
EN
[ˈwaɪtwɒʃ] [-aɪtwɒʃ] 动粉刷, 涂白
- 名词 (Noun)PLwhitewashes
- 动词 (Verb)SGwhitewashesPRwhitewashingPT, PPwhitewashed
- To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
- The houses looked very bright when they whitewashed the whole neighborhood.
- (idiomatic) To cover over errors or bad actions.
- In his sermon, the minister didn't try to whitewash over the sins of his church.
- (dated, transitive) To repay the financial debts of (another person).
- Meanwhile, Sam, having been formally introduced to the whitewashed gentleman and his friends, as the offspring of Mr. Weller, of the Belle Savage, was treated with marked distinction, and invited to regale himself with them in honour of the occasion—an invitation which he was by no means backward in accepting.
- (baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic) To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
- (US, Britain, slang) In various games, to defeat (an opponent) so that they fail to score, or to reach a certain point in the game; to skunk.
- (acting) To choose white film or television actors to portray characters that were Asian, African, or other races.
- (pejorative) To make over (an Asian, African, or person of another race, especially a woman) to look Caucasian.
- (pejorative) To cover over the history or nature of (an event, etc) in which people of colour participated, so as to focus on only white participation in it; to rewrite (history) in a way that erases the contribution of people of colour.
- Hollywood, Don't You Dare Whitewash Stonewall
- To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
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- 用于句中
- The houses looked very bright when they whitewashed the whole neighborhood.
- In his sermon, the minister didn't try to whitewash over the sins of his church.
- Sunday houses were often made of limestone rock coated with whitewash inside and out.
- 用于句中
Definition of whitewash in English Dictionary
- 词类阶层 (Part-of-Speech Hierarchy)
- 名词
- 可数名词
- 可数名词
- 动词
- 及物动词
- 及物动词
- 名词
- en whitewashes
- en whitewashed
- en whitewasher
- en whitewashers
- en whitewashing
资料来源: 维基词典
在语法上，这个单字"whitewash"是一个名词，更具体地来说，是一个可数名词。它同时也是一个动词，更具体地来说，是一个及物动词。