“他那份公务员的工作，只是一个幌子而已。”

【句子】I don't do yoga. It's a cover, okay?   【Modern Family S3E16】

【发音】/aɪ/ /dəʊnt/ /duː/ /ˈjəʊ.gə/  /ɪts/ /ə/ /ˈkʌv.ə(r)/  /ˌəʊˈkeɪ/

【发音技巧】don't do失去爆破；It's a连读；

【翻译】我不做瑜伽，那只是个幌子，好吗？

【适用场合】

今天节目中，我们要来学习一下cover的一种用法。

今天视频中，它指的是：“掩盖物；掩饰物；幌子；假身份”这样的意思；

我们经常会和介词for搭配，变成这样一个短语：cover for sth.，此时cover还是一个名词的用法，“用于掩盖、掩饰某个人的真实身份、感受的一件事情；用于掩盖某些非法活动的一件事”；

activities or behaviour that seem honest or true but that hide sb.'s real identity or feelings, or that hide sth. illegal

eg: His work as a civil servant was a cover for his activities as a spy.

他那份公务员的工作只是一个掩盖他间谍身份的幌子而已。

eg: Her over-confident attitude was a cover for her nervousness.

她那种过分自信的态度，只是一个用来掩饰她紧张情绪的幌子而已。

eg: His import-export company was a cover for a drug-smuggling operation.

他的进出口贸易公司，只是一个为了掩盖他走私毒品的幌子而已。

eg: His cover was that he was just released from prison and was interested in joining the gang.

他的假身份是一个刚从监狱里被释放出来，很想加入这个帮派的人。

而在英文中，blow someone's cover可以用来指：“揭穿某个人的骗局；撕开某个人的幌子；揭露某个人的真实身份”等等；

eg: She had to leave the country after her cover was blown.

她身份被暴露以后，不得不离开了那个国家。

eg: It would only take one phone call to blow their cover.

只要打一通电话，就可以揭穿他们的伪装。

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那只狗认出了我，暴露了我的身份。