window dressing

英 [ˈwɪndəʊ dresɪŋ]

美 [ˈwɪndoʊ dresɪŋ]

n.  橱窗装饰艺术; 橱窗设计艺术; 装饰门面; 弄虚作假

经济

牛津词典

noun

• 橱窗装饰艺术；橱窗设计艺术
  the art of arranging goods in shop/store windows in an attractive way
• 装饰门面；弄虚作假
  the fact of doing or saying sth in a way that creates a good impression but does not show the real facts
  1. The reforms are seen as window dressing.
     这些改革被视为是装饰门面。

英英释义

noun

• the decoration of shop windows
• a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
  Synonym:facade

双语例句

• Since the beginning of last year, the SEC has brought at least three cases against money managers for allegedly window dressing stocks in their portfolios.
  从去年年初开始，SEC就基金经理涉嫌对投资组合中的股票进行粉饰账面操作至少提出了三项诉讼。
• They have painted the living room and tidied the garden in order to sell the house, but it's really only window dressing because the roof needs attention and the electric wiring is still unsafe.
  为了出售房子他们粉饰了起居室并整理了花园，不过那其实只是粉饰门面而已，因为房顶需要修缮，供电线路还不安全。
• Window dressing occurs much more frequently in small, thinly traded stocks, whose shares tend to swing widely, according to trading and securities-law experts.
  交易和证券法专家称，粉饰账面操作多针对交易量低的小型股，这类股票往往会出现大幅波动。
• Anything else is just window dressing.
  至于其他作法，不过是点缀而已。
• In reality, many of the changes are window dressing with schools just trying to keep their cash cow M.B.A. programs alive by attempting to ride the entrepreneurial fever breaking out across the country.
  在现实生活中，有许多此类变革其实只是装点门面而已，学校们想要让M.B.A.项目这棵摇钱树保持活力，于是就趁着全国刮起的这一股创业风潮来赶时髦。
• Fair Value and the Window Dressing of Consolidated Financial Statements
  论公允价值与合并会计报表中的财务粉饰
• As an art, window dressing has evolved far beyond the snow scenes of my youth.
  作为一种艺术，橱窗展示已经演变成远非我年轻时的雪景。
• And politically speaking, "window dressing" R& D centres no longer work for multinationals.
  从政治角度而言，“粉饰”研发中心对跨国公司而言也不再奏效。
• There is "a pattern of incremental rule change, but it's just window dressing, and we move forward to the next scandal".
  证交所形成了“一种规则渐变模式，但这只是装装门面，丑闻还会爆发”。
• CSS has addressed many issues related to window dressing: fonts, spacing, padding, backgrounds, and more& all visual presentation elements.
  CSS已解决许多与窗口修饰相关的问题：字体、间距、填充、背景，等等&所有视觉呈现元素。