单词	smokescreen
释义	smokescreen /ˈsməʊkskriːn / noun 1A cloud of smoke created to conceal military operations: troops laid down a smokescreen to cover the rescue of the victims... Desultory firing continued for two days amid fog, smokescreens, and increasing confusion, before the operation was eventually abandoned. Wing Commander Frank Brock, a director of the company, used his background and passion for explosives and incendiaries to develop a smokescreen to conceal battleships at sea. We use them [white phosphorus munitions] primarily as obscurants, for smokescreens or target marking in some cases. 1.1A ruse designed to disguise someone’s real intentions or activities: he tried to create a smokescreen by quibbling about the statistics... It's just hard to sort out the real issues from the smokescreens as the rhetoric heats up this election year. Hague last night insisted that he would not be silenced by accusations of racism, which he said were designed as a smokescreen to hide Labour's problems over asylum. Behind a smokescreen of good intentions, the project continues.
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