我的朋友没把旅行中的种种不好对人提起,she chose to gloss over all of them. 而是决定把这些不好的部分都忽略不计了。
这种“报喜不报忧”的情况也出现在下面的例句里。我们听一听:
My daughter likes the sweet icy drinks at our local convenience store. But she's tried to avoid them because they have so much sugar. Now that she's heard that new flavors are being offered with artificial sweeteners, she's excited. I'm not. Because they still have no nutritional value. The company glosses over that information in its ads!
不过,universities don't include those numbers on their web sites. They conveniently gloss over these shocking statistics! 大学不会把这些数字发在他们的网站上,他们很“方便”地忽略了这些统计数据!
说起隐瞒不报,我们听听下面的例句:
People can be fascinated with celebrities. We love how they overcame great challenges in their rise to success. But often their life stories fail to mention drug or alcohol addictions, problems with relationships or criminal behavior. Indeed, biographers have a habit of glossing over such unpleasant facts."