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

• So I think a lot of it is political window dressing more than a substantial reform.
  所以我认为这应该是政治作秀窗口，而不是重大变革。
• Packaging must first of all, the customer is responsible for window dressing and be products are not going to win.
  包装首先要对客户负责，华而不实与实而不华的产品不会赢得消费群体。
• 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。
• Window dressing. Business as usual.
  装潢门面期间，照常营业。
• In the case of the latter, I guess words are window dressing.
  后一种情况下，我想文字只是用来做做样子罢了。
• Foreign experts, who have dismissed similar campaigns in the past as window dressing, are noticing improvements in the protection of intellectual property rights for the first time.
  外企高管过去对此类销毁活动一直不以为然，视之为作秀行为，但现在，他们首次注意到，中国的知识产权保护有了改善。
• Sceptics say this means that regional experiments with hedging are mere window dressing until regulators make it easier for fund managers to short the largest stocks across the Gulf.
  持怀疑态度的人士称，这意味着除非监管机构使基金经理们更易于做空海湾地区最大的股票，否则该地区在对冲方面的尝试只不过是做做样子。
• But this type of financial window dressing is neither exclusive to Lehman nor, prima facie, illegal.
  但这种财务上“粉饰门面”的做法并非雷曼所独有，而且从表面上看也并不违法。
• New accounting rules compress the space of window dressing of consolidated financial statements, but still exists under the circumstance of immature China capital market.
  新会计准则虽然压缩了对合并会计报表进行粉饰的空间，但是在我国资本市场还不成熟的条件下，仍然存在着很大的会计报表粉饰空间。
• 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。