Please do not whitewash your inherent faults with your acquired virtues .
先天的毛病就别用习得的美德去粉饰了。
China and other countries have long excoriated japan for the way its textbooks whitewash the country 's history , in particular glossing over japanese war crimes .
中国和其他一些国家一直以来都在谴责日本粉饰教科书里的历史,尤其是掩饰日本的战争罪行。
Tea out of an urn is always tasteless , while army tea , made in a cauldron , tastes of grease and whitewash .
用瓮泡出来的茶总是淡而无味,而部队里喝的茶是用锅煮出来的,尝起来有一股油脂和石灰水的味道。
The classical olympics were always run by a board of nine from the local town ( elis ) , so there were no international spats , no corruption scandals , no hijacking of the games to whitewash dictators .