Worse, in some cases there is no pretence of objectivity.

更糟的情况是，部分地观现实都懒得粉饰了。

Doctors are bombarded with advertising encouraging them to prescribe certain drugs.

医生看到种种粉饰过的“广告”后，也很难在开药的时候毫不动摇。

Americans, on the other hand, are typically seen as optimists who tend to sugarcoat things – make things seem better than they really are.

另一方面，美国通常被视为乐观主义者，他们倾向于粉饰事物——使事物看起来比它们实际上更好。

Well, I will not embroider the truth.

我不会粉饰真相。

I'm not going to sugar coat it.

我不打算粉饰太平。

His writing is elegant and urbane, full of paradoxes, aphorisms and conceits: The sky has powdered the taiga, shaking velvety down over the vert-de-bronze of the cedars.

他的作品语言优美、雅致，充满论、各种金句、天马行空的幻想：天空粉饰那针叶林，轻柔地散落在青绿杉树之上。

And he says Marcos Jr. has whitewashed those abuses.

他说，小马科斯粉饰了这些暴行。

We have a tendency as human beings to sugarcoat bad news.

作为类，我们有一种粉饰坏消息的倾向。

Now lots of people ask if they should ever be creative with the truth and I think that you should absolutely not.

很多问我他们应不应该粉饰事实，我认为绝对不要这样做。

There, I said it, I did not candy coat the truth.

这个提醒就表明我并没有candy coat（粉饰）事实。

Here snobbery is dressed up as concern for correct enunciation.

他在这里将自以为优越的态度粉饰成对正确发音的关注。

Well, imagine a company that sells something bad for the environment, like a plastic bottle, but they cover it with a green label that symbolises being environmentally friendly.

想象一下，一家公司出售对环境有害的东西，比如塑料瓶，但是他们用象征环保的绿色标签粉饰它。

The incentives on both sides of the hiring process lean naturally towards glossing reality.

招聘与应聘双方自然都更倾向于粉饰现实。

In the New York art scene at the time, he stood out, not only as a black man in the white-washed world of art, but also as an artist who brought attention to its ethnic imbalance.

在当时的纽约艺术界，他不仅是作为一个黑在这个被粉饰的艺术世界中脱颖而出，而且作为一名艺术家，他还引起了们对其种族失衡的关注。

Look, there's no sugarcoating it, the US was getting totally embarrassed in the Space Race.

听着，没有什么好粉饰的，美国在太空竞赛中变得非常尴尬。

This is a deliberate plan to politicize and whitewash history.

这是一项刻意将历史政治化和粉饰的计划。

In other words, we may try to sugarcoat it.

换句话说，我们可能会试图粉饰它。

Look, I'm not gonna sugarcoat this, kid. That was rough.

我不会粉饰这件事 那确实挺难堪的。

I'm not trying to undo it, I'm just trying to hide it under some lettuce.

我没有想要扭转什么啊，我只是想要用生菜来粉饰太平。

Your Honor, I'm not gonna candy-coat it.

法官大 我不打算进行粉饰。