The attorney-general's ruling that there was no evidence of wrongdoing merely provided face-saving cover for his inevitable exit.
司法部长宣示未发现任何不法行为的证据,只是给他一块遮羞布,替他在无法避免的下台之前保留颜面。Now she knew what Reconstruction meant, knew as well as if the house were ringed about by naked savages, squatting in breech clouts.
现在她知道重建运动究竟意味着什么了,就像知道如果家里被一群只束着遮羞布蹲在那里的光身子野人所包围时意味着什么一样。The "Green" movement is only a cloak to cover this very real problem hoping not to cause mass panic.
“绿色”运动只是掩盖真实问题以致不引起大众恐慌的遮羞布。Their pilfer we hundreds of film, pressing a root is company of edition of a pilfer, just bought a few pieces when fig leaf .
他们盗了我们几百部影片,压根就是一个盗版公司,只不过买了几个片子当遮羞布。One thing is certain: when the fig leaf of civilian government arrives in 2011, there will be no place in it for the Lady.
有一件事是肯定的:2011年的文人政府,作为军政府的遮羞布,没有留给她任何位置。But at the time I did not understand and put down her blush to humility (the veil! ).
但当时我还不明白,把脸红看成是她的谦逊(其实是遮羞布!)'s street residents, says the branding of Mr. Jermyn is 'like designing a line of clothing patterned after Iraqi refugees fleeing the war.
在他看来,给杰米恩树立品牌就好比“在伊拉克难民逃离战争后,再给他们设计一块好看的遮羞布。”If these special room selling well, perhaps some of the old price set a fig leaf for the larger hole would be more tear.
如果这些特价房卖得不错,也许一些老盘降价的遮羞布口子会越撕越大。It could be even worse, providing a fig leaf of plausibility for Mr Mugabe to carry on his destructive rule.
考虑到穆加贝会用花言巧语来当做遮羞布,以便他继续进行毁灭性的统治,新政府甚至可能会更加糟糕。