Think of a bitter pill with a thin sweet shell around it. The hard thing is still there, whole and unchanged; only the outside has been made pleasant. Every use of this word can be held in that one picture — a peanut, a tablet, or a story about the past.
這個字的畫面可以想成一顆苦藥丸，外面裹著薄薄一層糖。裡面那顆藥完全沒有變，只是外面變好入口了。糖衣花生是這樣，糖衣錠是這樣，連一段被講得很美好的往事也是這樣。看到 sugar-coated，就可以先問一句：那層糖底下是什麼？
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