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A cover-up is an attempt to stop the public from finding out the truth about something, usually something or wrong. People hide papers, tell a false story, or stay quiet so that a mistake, a crime, or a scandal does not come out. Newspapers love the word: a government cover-up. It is the noun made from the verb cover up. It always sounds like an accusation. Though actually, English also uses cover-up for a light piece of clothing you put on over a swimming costume — that is a different, everyday sense, not this news sense.
掩蓋、掩飾真相（把醜事壓下來；不是蓋被子，也不是泳裝外面那件罩衫）
組成The noun is taken from the phrasal verb cover up (to hide the truth).
同家族的字
- coverthe verb at the heart of it; to cover up is to hide something, here the truth
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cover-upnoun/ˈkʌvɚˌʌp/
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An attempt to conceal or disguise something, especially a wrongdoing or a mistake.
- Truthfulness means no lies and no cover-ups. Compassion means being kind and helpful to others. Forbearance means being able to tolerate and suffer, and not fight back.
- [War metaphors] are used, either consciously or unconsciously, for specific effect and purpose. They are used, not so much as descriptions, but rather to convey additional moral, imaginative or judgmental information. The ubiquitous "war between the sexes" is, in fact, a cover-up of the fact that men, generally, have social power over women.
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An item of clothing to be worn over a swimsuit while not in the water.
- The women usually wore bikini tops with shorts, swimsuits underneath cover-ups or just swimsuits. Men came in various types of trunks, from traditional boxers, to Speedos, to G-string trunks that showcased their packages.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。