window dressing

英 [ˈwɪndəʊ dresɪŋ]

美 [ˈwɪndoʊ dresɪŋ]

n.  橱窗装饰艺术; 橱窗设计艺术; 装饰门面; 弄虚作假

经济

牛津词典

noun

• 橱窗装饰艺术；橱窗设计艺术
  the art of arranging goods in shop/store windows in an attractive way
• 装饰门面；弄虚作假
  the fact of doing or saying sth in a way that creates a good impression but does not show the real facts
  1. The reforms are seen as window dressing.
     这些改革被视为是装饰门面。

英英释义

noun

• the decoration of shop windows
• a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
  Synonym:facade

双语例句

• Mr Obama will soon need to show that what he is proposing amounts to more than just window dressing.
  奥巴马很快就必须用实际行动来证明，他所提议的措施不只是装饰门面。
• The second part puts much effort on the typical ways Chinese listed companies use in window dressing.
  第二章着重分析了我国上市公司报表粉饰的常见手段和典型案例。
• The measures are little more than window dressing that will fade fast once investors take a hard look at them.
  这些措施也就是装装门面，一旦投资者认真探究，就会原形毕露。
• There is "a pattern of incremental rule change, but it's just window dressing, and we move forward to the next scandal".
  证交所形成了“一种规则渐变模式，但这只是装装门面，丑闻还会爆发”。
• In reality, many of the changes are window dressing with schools just trying to keep their cash cow M.B.A. programs alive by attempting to ride the entrepreneurial fever breaking out across the country.
  在现实生活中，有许多此类变革其实只是装点门面而已，学校们想要让M.B.A.项目这棵摇钱树保持活力，于是就趁着全国刮起的这一股创业风潮来赶时髦。
• Some forms of window dressing, such as selling losing stocks right before reporting quarter-end holdings to investors, are perfectly legal.
  某些形式的粉饰账面是完全合法的，譬如在向投资者公布季度末持仓状况之前卖出面临损失的股票。
• In the case of the latter, I guess words are window dressing.
  后一种情况下，我想文字只是用来做做样子罢了。
• So I think a lot of it is political window dressing more than a substantial reform.
  所以我认为这应该是政治作秀窗口，而不是重大变革。
• The practice, known as 'marking the close' or 'portfolio pumping,' is a form of 'window dressing'& a term for a variety of techniques employed by asset managers to make their results look better at the end of the quarter.
  这种做法被称为设定收市价或投资组合拉抬，是粉饰账面的一种形式&粉饰账面是指资产管理经理在季度末为改善业绩数据而采用的各种手段。
• Window dressing occurs much more frequently in small, thinly traded stocks, whose shares tend to swing widely, according to trading and securities-law experts.
  交易和证券法专家称，粉饰账面操作多针对交易量低的小型股，这类股票往往会出现大幅波动。