gloss over something

phrasal verbphr v TALK TO somebodyto avoid talking about something unpleasant, or to say as little as possible about it 避免谈论〔不愉快的事情〕；对…轻描淡写 SYN skirt

She glossed over the details of her divorce.

她对离婚的细节含糊其词。

Examples from the Corpus

gloss over • When they were mentioned, they were usually made light of, or glossed over.• Feminist psychological theories tend to gloss over class relations, too.• Amy glossed over the bad times.• It was admirably researched, hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones.• President Kennedy glossed over the racial animus in Mississippi as he let the issue die by moving on to other concerns.• And they can gloss over the social forces that contribute to the appeal of reductionist and deterministic ideas.• But it tends to gloss over them when it draws on mainstream psychology.• Some try to gloss over weak programming with slick packaging.

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