Decoration
[dekə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or [,dɛkə'reʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive).
(noun.) something used to beautify.
(noun.) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
錄入:普勒斯顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
(n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
(n.) Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
杰西卡校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Ornament, embellishment.
錄入:佩内洛普
例句/造句/用法:
- Mr. Bucket prices that decoration in his mind and thinks it as likely as not that Volumnia is writing poetry. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Not only were the cities outwardly more splendidly built, but within the homes of the wealthy there had been great advances in the art of decoration. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The next day, for the first time, nothing was done towards the decoration of the door. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Then they sent to Reid my decoration, and they tried to put a sash on me, but I could not stand for that. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- They conform to the general design and decoration of the table. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Mr. Herter was doing the decoration, and it was extraordinarily fine. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Nearly everywhere that Neolithic culture went, there went a disposition to associate the sun and the serpent in decoration and worship. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She wore no other decoration. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Viewed as work, this decoration was slow to do, and dirty to deal with. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- In its complete absence of decoration, save for the big, blue stove, it was cosy and pleasant. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Fine building and decoration went on. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But what do you want them for, for decoration, or to send away, or what? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The bills, as a variety in the funeral procession, almost amounted to a decoration. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The expert architect and the two artists who assisted Tycho are delineated in the landscape and even in the setting sun in the top-most part of the painting, and in the decoration above. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Did you ever get the decorations? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- For decorations already painted it suffices to apply it to the back and wooden frames. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Dejah Thoris and I then fell to examining the architecture and decorations of the beautiful chambers of the building we were occupying. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The veins of this leaf in the decorations over your head, were his finger-joints, a hundred and fifty years ago. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I shan't venture to say anything at all about it, seeing that I never heard the story,' observed the owner of the Mosaic decorations. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Among his other contradictory decorations he had the hat of a bishop and the little gloves of a baby. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Believe me, I got to work for my decorations. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Not to mention decorations and kissing on both cheeks, he thought. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- A large cabinet contains awards, decorations, and medals presented to Edison, accumulating in the course of a long career, some of which may be seen in the illustration opposite. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The late repairs and decorations add both to the comeliness and the comfort of the Coliseum. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
手打:蒙塔古