英语词汇“a fig leaf”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

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单词	a fig leaf
释义	a fig leaf something which is intended to hide an embarrassing or awkward situation It seems that the pledge to rejoin the ERM was a fig leaf, designed to indicate thatthe government's economic strategy was not dead but merely sleeping. Examples of 'a fig leaf' in a sentence a fig leaf Depressing as it may be, a fig-leaf is no substitute for an olive branch. Times, Sunday Times (2011) It looks like a fig leaf to cover the banking industry's weak spot. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Compliance is a fig leaf for senior managers. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Sport was so obviously a fig leaf. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Quotas are, in this context, a fig leaf. Times, Sunday Times (2016) French 'support' is merely a fig leaf. The Sun (2013) A fig leaf of sensible-sounding film theory is added too. Times, Sunday Times (2017) The danger is that it becomes a fig leaf for both companies and institutional investors. Times, Sunday Times (2018) Disclosing your salary is, to some extent, removing a fig leaf and exposing your worth. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Or is she a chip off the old block, a fig leaf used to distract from the president's worst excesses? Times, Sunday Times (2017)
随便看	catch a cold catch a crab catch a few zeds catch a flight catch-all catchall catch an infection catch-as-catch-can catch at catch a tartar catch basin catch cold catch cold/catch a cold catch-cold-catch-a-cold catchcries catch crop catchcry catcher catcher's mitt catchers-mitt catch fire catchflies catchfly catch hell catch hold of

　

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