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

• 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。
• 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。
• The reforms have been interpreted as window dressing.
  这些变革被称作是装饰门面。
• The practice, known as 'marking the close' or 'portfolio pumping,' is a form of 'window dressing'& a term for a variety of techniques employed by asset managers to make their results look better at the end of the quarter.
  这种做法被称为设定收市价或投资组合拉抬，是粉饰账面的一种形式&粉饰账面是指资产管理经理在季度末为改善业绩数据而采用的各种手段。
• 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。
• Keep up appearances Window dressing. Business as usual.
  ph.1.装门面，2.保持常态装潢门面期间，照常营业。
• 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。
• 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
• 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”。