"a wash or lotion for the eyes," 1866, from eye (n.) + wash (n.). Colloquial use for "blarney, humbug" (1884), chiefly British, perhaps is from the notion of "something intended to obscure or conceal facts or true motives." But this, and expression my eye also may be the verbal equivalent of the wink that indicates one doesn't believe what has been said (compare French mon oeil in same sense, accompanied by a knowing pointing of a finger to the eye).
雙語例句
1. We still encounter case of pilfering, eyewash and bureaucratism.
我們還會發(fā)現(xiàn)小偷小摸 、 吹牛拍馬以及官僚主義的種種現(xiàn)象.
來自辭典例句
2. He pretends to be busy, but it's all eyewash.
他假裝很忙, 其實純屬欺騙.
來自辭典例句
3. When you keep skinned, you'll find it to be a counterfeit eyewash.
你要是留意, 就會發(fā)現(xiàn)這是一種偽造的眼藥水.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. Don't listen to that eyewash aBout his success in Japan.
不要聽他胡吹在日本如何成功.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. Type FP valves installed on emergency shower and eyewash station.