学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 3114 cover up

今天我们要学的词是cover up. To cover up意思是掩盖事实。An Australian archbishop was sentenced to a year in detention¹ for covering up child sexual abuse by a priest. 澳大利亚一名大主教因为掩盖一名神父性侵儿童的行为被判处一年监禁。An inquiry² into a UK contaminated blood scandal in the 1970s and 1980s will look at whether authorities tried to cover up the scandal. 英国对上世纪七、八十年代的血液污染丑闻展开调查，看看有关当局是否曾试图掩盖事实真相。好的，我们今天学习的词是cover up, cover up, cover up ...

1 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

2 inquiry   

n.打听，询问，调查，查问

参考例句：

• Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
• The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。