掩饰

America tends to make peop le m iserable w hen they areo ld and there are no t enough ph rases in the dict ionary to glo ss over the ugly reality.

美国社会往往使老年人感到痛苦，而英语词典中却没有足够的委婉语能掩饰住这一丑恶的现实。

For years a spinner of fictitious tales of domestic bliss, Ms. Young recalls a letter she wrote regaling relatives with the story of a salsa-making fiasco that dissolved in laughter between her and her husband."It never happened," she says."But it was how I wished our marriage was."

多年来 Young 总是用虚构的家庭幸福的故事来掩饰自己，她回忆曾给亲戚写信讲当自己辣酱做失败后丈夫如何与自己相视莞尔的故事，&这从未发生过，&她说，&但这正是我所想要的婚姻。&

About the same period came the Montanists, who forbade second marriage, enjoined rigorous fasts, insisted on the perpetual exclusion from the Church of those who had ever committed grievous sin, stigmatized flight in time of persecution as reprehensible, protested that virgins should be always veiled, reprobated paintings, statuary, military service, theatres, and all worldly sciences.

大约同一时期出现了Montanists ，谁禁止第二次婚姻，责成严格的斋戒，坚持长期被排除在教会的人谁曾经犯下严重罪恶，耻辱飞行时间的迫害，谴责，抗议说，处女应该总是掩饰， reprobated绘画，雕塑，兵役，剧院，和所有世俗的科学。

Everybody sniffed when they came to that part. Jo wasn't ashamed of the great tear that dropped off the end of her nose, and Amy never minded the rumpling of her curls as she hid her face on her mother's shoulder and sobbed out, 'I am a selfish girl! But I'll truly try to be better, so he mayn't be disappointed in me by-and-by.

当读到这一段的时候，每个人都抽泣起来，乔已不再掩饰自己内心的柔软，一任泪水从她的鼻翼滚下，而安米也顾不得自己的淑女风范了，把脸埋在了妈妈的肩头痛哭失声，&我太自私了，不过我真的会努力做得更好一些，这样爸爸就不会对我失望了&。

Outside at midnight, the bright lights cannot mask a seedier side of city life - the poor trawling through rubbish bins, the homeless on street corners, the touts offering drugs and sex for sale. Many of the women working as prostitutes are rural migrants.

过了午夜，明亮的灯光也无法掩饰令人心酸的城市生活－可怜的拾荒者从垃圾桶里掏拣东西；无家可归者躺在墙角；厚颜无耻者在兜售毒品和拉皮条。

The police were summoned, and the whole of Little Hangleton had seethed with shocked curiosity and ill-disguised excitement.

警察来了。小村子整个骚动起来，村民们充满好奇、吃惊、掩饰不住的兴奋。

At least, in those early days, he knew it was shaming to read a kids' book.

他说这些是想掩饰尴尬，至少在早期他知道读孩子的书不是什么光彩的事情。

At least, in those early days, he knew it was shaming to read a kids\' book.

他说这些是想掩饰尴尬，至少在早期他还知道读孩子的书不是什么光彩事情。

But Mr Prendergast cannot conceal his scorn for what, he considers, has become "an altogether shoddier affair, progressively mummified into formal ritual orchestrated by assorted dignitaries" and "media kitsch".

但是Prendergast无法掩饰自己的轻蔑，他认为该节日已经成为一项虚情假意的活动，并日渐萎缩成由任一小撮高官和媒体的庸俗报道所主导的形式上的仪式。

But Mr Prendergast cannot conceal his scorn for what, he considers, has become "an altogether shoddier affair, progressively mummified into formal ritual orchestrated by assorted dignitaries" and "media kitsch".

不过，Prendergast先生掩饰不住自己的嘲讽：&纯粹的面子工程，正慢慢演变成为少数高官权贵主导的毫无生气的仪式&，还有&媒体庸俗的报道&。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。