cover up

基本解釋

Lies cannot cover up [conceal] the facts.
謊言掩蓋不了事實(shí)。
《新英漢大辭典》
Even after he died, they lied to cover up their abuse.
甚至在他死了之后，他們?nèi)匀徽f謊掩蓋他們的虐待行為。
Well, no, I hope it won't, so long as I cover up, slather on the SPF50 and avoid the midday sun.
好吧，我希望它不會(huì)，只要我把自己遮蓋起來，涂上厚厚的歐萊雅SPF50防曬霜，并且躲開中午的太陽。

He says President Obama has to prevent Israel from doing this kind of thing, and not to protect or cover up for Israel.
Moving a stack of size 3, again, if I want to go over there, I need to make sure I can put the spare one over here before I move the bottom one, I can't cover up any of the smaller ones with the larger one, but I can get it there.
移動(dòng)上面的三個(gè)圓盤的話，我在移動(dòng)最底下的圓盤之前，同樣要確保剩下的,是在另外一個(gè)柱子上，因?yàn)槲也荒馨汛蟮膱A盤,放在小的上面。
麻省理工公開課 - 計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)及編程導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
All right. The rules, though, are, they can only move one disk at a time, and they can never cover up a smaller disk with a larger disk. OK. Otherwise you'd just move the whole darn stack, OK?
好，規(guī)則是，他們只能一次挪動(dòng)一個(gè)盤子,并且不能把大盤子放在小盤子上,不這樣的話你就直接,把這一堆盤子都挪過來了對(duì)不對(duì)？
麻省理工公開課 - 計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)及編程導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

The town's authorities tried to cover up the news, but people began posting accounts online.
ECONOMIST: China before the Olympics

If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
If you cover up something that you do not want people to know about, you hide the truth about it.
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