This language serves to disguise and obscure.

这话是用来文过饰非的.

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Correct your mistake the moment you realize it and don't try to gloss over your mistake.

要知过必改,不要文过饰非.

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A person , who is imperious and tries to gloss over his fault, is bound to suffer in the end.

专横跋扈、文过饰非的人到头来总是要吃亏的.

《简明英汉词典》

That whole affair was a whitewash.

那整个事件都是文过饰非.

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He tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.

对于那些早已铁定不移的往事,他也不想去文过饰非.

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You should admit and correct your mistakes rather than cover them up.

有错误就该承认并改正,你怎么能文过饰非呢?

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He rationalized his cheating by saying that everyone else cheated.

他用大家都作弊为自己的作弊行为文过饰非.

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What he said was just whitewash to hide his mistake.

他说的话只不过是想文过饰非.

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Vice is nourished and kept alive by concealment.

文过饰非,恶必滋生.

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