出处:按学科分类—语言、文字 中国对外翻译出版公司《汉英成语词典》第178页(305字)
把纷乱的现状装扮成太平盛世的模样,例清朝末年,百业凋敝,民不聊生,可是朝廷还粉饰太平,企图掩盖危机。
Towards the end of the Qing Dynasty,all business languished and the people lived in dire poverty,But the Qing Court.wanting to hide the crisis,pretended that peace and prosperity was the order of the day.