paper over

英 [ˈpeɪpə(r) ˈəʊvə(r)]

美 [ˈpeɪpər ˈoʊvər]

掩盖，掩饰（分歧）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 掩盖，掩饰（分歧）
  If peoplepaper overa disagreement between them, they find a temporary solution to it in order to give the impression that things are going well.
  1. ...his determination to paper over the cracks in his party and avoid confrontation...
     他掩盖党内分歧、避免冲突的决心
  2. Differences were papered over but by no means were they fully resolved.
     分歧被掩盖了，但是绝没有得到完全解决。

双语例句

• Could you fling the paper over here?
  请把那张报纸扔给我好吗？
• Efforts by Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the French and German leaders, to paper over differences between Berlin and Paris on how to deal with the Greek debt crisis led to a summit statement in Brussels that stopped short of providing immediate support for Athens.
  法国、德国领导人尼古拉萨科齐（nicolassarkozy）和安格拉默克尔（angelamerkel）努力掩盖两国之间关于如何处理希腊债务危机的分歧，导致在布鲁塞尔举行的欧盟首脑会议声明中，未宣布立即对希腊提供援助。
• Paint won't cover the mark on the wall; we shall have to paper over it.
  油漆盖不住墙上这道痕迹，我们得用墙纸裱糊一下。
• Turn the paper over to the other side.
  把纸翻转到另一面。
• A copy ( as of an engraving) made by laying paper over something and rubbing it with charcoal.
  把纸放在一些东西上用木炭擦它制成的副本（就象是雕刻术）。
• We all know how treacherous are word, and how often we use them to paper over embarrassment or emptiness, or fear of the larger spaces that silence brings.
  我们都知道语言有多么虚伪，我们记不清有多少次我们语言去掩饰自己的窘迫、空虚或对沉默带来得更大空间产生的恐惧。
• Some people have argued that using antidepressants in the setting of depression is not a good idea because these only paper over the "real" problems in people's lives.
  一些人认为在抑郁的过程中使用抗抑郁药并不是个好主意，这是因为在人们的生活中那不是真正的疾病。
• I just sort of hand the slips of paper over to the pharmacist.
  我只是就这样把处方递给药剂师而已。
• She used layers of paper over a wall to describe how we hide our original selves, and said that by peeling away those layers one by one, we see the underlying original beneath.
  她用糊在墙壁上的一层层的壁纸来形容我们是如何将真实的自我隐藏起来的，并且说一层一层地剥去那些壁纸，我们便会发现藏在下面的纯真。
• He acts in disregard of principle, often trying to paper over differences.
  他办事不讲原则，爱和稀泥。