smokescreen

noun

1. 烟幕（用以掩盖真相的言行）；障眼法
   something that you do or say in order to hide what you are really doing or intending
2. （战斗中用以掩蔽士兵、舰船等的）烟幕
   a cloud of smoke used to hide soldiers, ships, etc. during a battle

1. N-COUNT (掩盖某人的活动或真实意图的)烟幕，幌子
   If something that you do or say is a smokescreen, it is intended to hide the truth about your activities or intentions.
   1. He was accused of putting up a smokescreen to hide poor standards in schools.
      他被指责放烟幕弹企图掩盖学校教育水平低下的事实。

1. He was accused of putting up a smokescreen to hide poor standards in schools.
   他被指责放烟幕弹企图掩盖学校教育水平低下的事实。
2. It may also be a smokescreen.
   然而，这也可能仅仅只是个烟幕弹。
3. It was a smokescreen to avoid the real issues: national solvency, uncompetitive education, a very costly and uneven healthcare system, incoherent energy and foreign policies and a rancid, unaffordable and unjust legal system.
   这是个障眼法，意在掩盖真正的问题：国家的偿债能力、缺乏竞争力的教育、高成本且不公平的医疗体系、前后矛盾的能源和外交政策，以及腐朽、昂贵、不公正的法律体系。
4. But it's an obvious smokescreen.
   但那明显是一个掩饰。
5. It's all a smokescreen, isn't it?
   这是个烟雾弹，对吧？
6. A smokescreen TOP testing system, which can implement the automatic TOP measurement, was developed based on the irradiance measurement technology.
   基于辐照度测量法成功研制了烟雾全遮蔽能力检测系统。
7. The distinction has proved increasingly hard to maintain, partly because of its inherent lack of clarity for many, and the fact that it has widely been seen abroad as a smokescreen to protect bank secrecy.
   事实证明瑞士法律的这一特色越来越难以维持，部分原因在于，许多人认为它本身就缺乏明确性，而且他国普遍将其视为瑞士为保护其银行保密制度而释放的烟幕。
8. A smokescreen total obscure power ( TOP) testing system, based on illumination measurement technology and contrast threshold of human visual is developed.
   基于辐照度测量法和以人眼视觉对比度阈值为基准，研制了烟雾全遮蔽能力检测系统。
9. UN forces last week tried to counter North Korean claims that the exercises were a smokescreen for an invasion by promising to keep the hotline open, giving Pyongyang advance warning of anything that could cause a misunderstanding.
   朝鲜声称，这次演习是美韩在为入侵朝鲜施放烟雾。联合国部队上周试图反驳这一说法，他们承诺保持热线畅通，就任何可能引起误解之事提前对朝鲜预警。
10. Their propaganda that they have "no desire to aggravate the situation" is only a smokescreen for further attacks.
    他们的所谓“不求扩大”的宣传，不过是掩护其进攻的烟幕弹。
11. If they occasionally claimed that the purpose was to bring the benefits of their wise rule to a wider public, the assertion was little more than a smokescreen for personal ambition.
    如果他们偶尔宣称，他们的目的是要让自己的英明统治惠及更广大的民众，这一主张不过是为掩饰个人野心而释放的烟幕。
12. Then he and the film become the best possible smokescreen they could ever ask for.
    他们就成了用来掩盖真相最好的道具了。
13. Medvedev insisted that his earlier statements that he wasn't excluding running for a second term reflected a possibility of a shift in public sympathies and weren't just a smokescreen.
    梅德韦杰夫坚称呼他之前不再竞选总统连任的声明不是为了得到公众可能的同情而放的烟雾弹。
14. They have asked for a completely itemized invoice but I think they're merely putting up a smokescreen because they don't want to pay our bill yet.
    他们提出要一张分条开列的发票，但我想他们只是有些隐藏着的用意，因为他们还不想付我们的帐。
15. Working at the embassy was just a smokescreen for his work as a spy.
    在大使馆供职只是他进行间谍工作的一个幌子。
16. Answer: after succeeding in certain of their plans, the Japanese imperialists will once again put up a smokescreen of peace in order to attain three objectives.
    答：日本帝国主义在达到它的一定步骤后，它将为着三个目的再一次放出和平的烟幕弹。
17. The laundry is just a smokescreen for their criminal activities.
    洗衣店只是他们搞犯罪活动的一个烟幕。
18. This led to the development of a large caliber smokescreen projector with a rapid rate of fire.
    如此一来德军所以开发高速连发大口径烟幕发射器。
19. The world has indeed been turned upside down, but Afghanistan, Iraq and the Badlands of Waziristan have been a smokescreen, obscuring the bigger story of the past decade.
    事实上，这个世界已经天翻地覆，但阿富汗、伊拉克与瓦齐里斯坦偏僻贫瘠的山区所制造的烟幕，掩盖了过去这10年里更为重要的事件。
20. Rangers progress through a smokescreen created to cover their movement.
    别动队员在烟幕环境的掩护下前进。
21. Yet with the Taliban splintering, and some groups like the Haqqani network wanting to fight to the death, there is no possibility of ending the mission with a grand peace conference the favoured smokescreen for withdrawal for many in camp Cameron.
    但由于塔利班四分五裂，哈卡尼网络（haqqaninetwork）等一些团体希望战斗到底，军事行动不可能以盛大的和平会议作为终结而这正是卡梅伦阵营所希望的掩护撤退的烟幕。
22. Error of Lambert-Beer Law with Application to Infrared Smokescreen Optical Transmission Calculation
    应用Lambert-Beer定律计算红外烟幕透过率的误差问题
23. In addition, the correlation function between the two images with and without jamming is proposed as an evaluation index for smokescreen jamming effectiveness and the jamming effect according to the correlation function is also graded into three jamming levels.
    为定量评估烟幕对观瞄用光电成像系统的干扰效果，可以采用成像系统在实施干扰前后图像之间的相关函数作为评估指标，按照相关函数值的大小将干扰效果划分为三个等级。
24. For smokescreen jamming upon the imaging system for automatic tracking, the proposed criterion for jamming effectiveness is whether the imaging system under jamming could produce effective tracking errors, or its tracking error under jamming is three times greater than its tracking accuracy when there is no jamming.
    烟幕对跟踪用光电成像系统的干扰效果可以根据光电成像系统能否输出有效跟踪脱靶量以及脱靶量是否超出正常跟踪精度的3倍判定干扰是否有效。
25. A study on the extinction properties of cluster particles in smokescreen
    烟幕凝聚粒子的消光特性研究
26. Theoretical Study on Extinction Characters of Non-Spherical Particles and Their Smokescreen
    非球形微粒及其形成烟幕的消光机理研究

noun

1. an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure
   1. requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures

   Synonym:    smoke screen

2. (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements

   Synonym:    smoke screen