Embellish
[ɪm'belɪʃ;em-]
解释:
(v. t.) To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.
录入:昆西
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Decorate, deck, bedeck, ornament, adorn, beautify, set out, set off.
整理:瓦莱丽
同义词及反义词：
[See ADORN]
录入:罗兰
解释:
v.t. to make beautiful with ornaments: to decorate: to make graceful: to illustrate pictorially as a book.—n. Embell′isher.—adv. Embell′ishingly.—n. Embell′ishment act of embellishing or adorning: decoration: ornament.
手打:莉莲
例句:
- Mrs. Dowler, you embellish the rooms. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- If he used metaphors, it was to illustrate, and not to embellish the truth. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- We do not embellish the general desolation of a desert much. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Nothing can embellish a beautiful face more than a narrow band drawn over the brow, says Richter. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Clym started up, and Susan smiled in an expectant way which did not embellish her face; it seemed to mean, Something sinister is coming! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Yes, I think it rather pretty,' said the beadle, glancing proudly downwards at the large brass buttons which embellished his coat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- In this, Plato was only following the common thought of his countrymen, which he embellished and exaggerated with all the power of his genius. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- He was embellished with spectacles, and wore a white neckerchief. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Two or three exquisite paintings of children, in various attitudes, embellished the wall. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Two strange travellers embellished one of his rooms. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- A brass-plate embellished the great porte-cochère: Pensionnat de Demoiselles was the inscription; and beneath, a nameMadame Beck. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
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