学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 3114 cover up
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(九)月
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今天我们要学的词是cover up. To cover up意思是掩盖事实。An Australian archbishop was sentenced to a year in detention 1 for covering up child sexual abuse by a priest. 澳大利亚一名大主教因为掩盖一名神父性侵儿童的行为被判处一年监禁。An inquiry 2 into a UK contaminated blood scandal in the 1970s and 1980s will look at whether authorities tried to cover up the scandal. 英国对上世纪七、八十年代的血液污染丑闻展开调查，看看有关当局是否曾试图掩盖事实真相。好的，我们今天学习的词是cover up, cover up, cover up ...
n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下
- He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
- He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。