蒙混

tā méi fǎ kāi kǒu dào qiàn jiù xiǎng ná zhè jiàn shì qing kāi gè wán xiào méng hùn guò qù

他没法开口道歉，就想拿这件事情开个玩笑蒙混过去。

He could not bring himself to apologise. Instead, he tried to make a joke of it.

wǒ men jué bù néng zài yǐ yī zhǒng zhì biāo bù zhì běn de fāng shì méng hùn guo qu

我们决不能再以一种“治标不治本”的方式蒙混过去。

We simply cannot continue to muddle through it with a band-aid approach.