Embellish
[ɪm'belɪʃ;em-]
解釋/意思:
(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.
錄入:昆西
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Decorate, deck, bedeck, ornament, adorn, beautify, set out, set off.
整理:瓦莱丽
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ADORN]
錄入:罗兰
解釋/意思:
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/造句/用法:
- Mrs. Dowler, you embellish the rooms. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- If he used metaphors, it was to illustrate, and not to embellish the truth. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- We do not embellish the general desolation of a desert much. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Nothing can embellish a beautiful face more than a narrow band drawn over the brow, says Richter. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Clym started up, and Susan smiled in an expectant way which did not embellish her face; it seemed to mean, Something sinister is coming! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Yes, I think it rather pretty,' said the beadle, glancing proudly downwards at the large brass buttons which embellished his coat. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- In this, Plato was only following the common thought of his countrymen, which he embellished and exaggerated with all the power of his genius. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He was embellished with spectacles, and wore a white neckerchief. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Two or three exquisite paintings of children, in various attitudes, embellished the wall. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Two strange travellers embellished one of his rooms. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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. 維萊特.
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