N-SING
虛飾;偽裝;假象
If you refer to the pleasant way that someone or something appears as a veneer, you are critical of them because you believe that their true, hidden nature is not good.
例句
He was able to fool the world with his veneer of education...
他打著受過良好教育的幌子到處欺瞞世人。
His super-clean image gave a veneer of respectability to the new professional set-up.
他超級整潔的形象使其新設的專業騙局看起來很正規很體面。