smokescreen

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈsmoʊkˌskɹin/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
    — Ensign Whitely began to tell of the surprise encounter of Admiral Sprague’s escort-carrier force with the main battle line of the Japanese Navy off Samar, in a chaos of rain squalls and smoke screens.
  2. Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract. figuratively
    — All that talk is just a smokescreen to disguise the fact that he has nothing to say.

词形变化

smokescreens plural smoke screen alternative smoke-screen alternative

词汇关系

相关词
smoke test

词源

Etymology tree
English smoke
English screen
English smokescreen
From smoke + screen.
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