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今日表达：
1，如何形容一件事情希望渺茫？
2， “粉饰、美化”用英语怎么说？
1，The positionsthat both sides took were so extreme and contradictory that compromise appears aremote prospect.
中美双方的立场极端且分歧较大，达成妥协的几率渺茫。
aremote prospect 用来表示某一事情实现的几率很渺茫，相当于impossible，可以与之替换。
China’s firsthome-grown aircraft carrier, once a remote prospect, is now readyto carry out its maiden sea trial.
中国首艘国产航母，曾经遥不可及，但现在已准备好试航。（maiden 处女的，首次的）
2，We are calling onJapan to look squarely at the history, and not to put a positive glosson it.
我们呼吁日方正视历史，不要试图美化历史。
put a positive gloss on...
gloss指的是“光泽、虚假的外表”，put agloss on 也就是“粉饰，美化”的意思了，再加一个positive作修饰，更加突显了这一效果。
Publicly, the two countries put apositive gloss on the outcome. Xinhua, China’sofficial news agency, described the talks as candid and constructive. It notedthat they had agreed on some issues and recognised their “considerable differences” on others.
报道时，两国美化了谈判结果。据中国官方新闻机构新华的报道，中美双方进行了坦诚、富有建设性的讨论。并指出，双方在有些领域达成了一些共识，在一些问题上海存在“较大分歧”。
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