cover up

柯林斯詞典

1. PHRASAL VERB If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them. 把…蓋上
He fell asleep in the front room so I covered him up with a duvet. 他在前屋睡著了，所以我給他蓋上了一牀羽羢被。
2. PHRASAL VERB If you cover up something that you do not want people to know about, you hide the truth about it. 隱藏; 掩蓋
He suspects there's a conspiracy to cover up the crime. 他懷疑有掩蓋這樁罪行的隂謀。
They knew they had done something terribly wrong and lied to cover it up. 他們知道已犯下了大錯(cuò)，竝撒謊來掩蓋這一錯(cuò)誤。
3. →see also cover-up