Tinsel
['tɪns(ə)l] or ['tɪnsl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a thread with glittering metal foil attached.
(noun.) a showy decoration that is basically valueless; 'all the tinsel of self-promotion'.
(verb.) interweave with tinsel; 'tinseled velvet'.
(verb.) adorn with tinsel; 'snow flakes tinseled the trees'.
(verb.) impart a cheap brightness to; 'his tinseled image of Hollywood'.
錄入:莉娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
(n.) Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
(a.) Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.
(v. t.) To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
乔校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Frippery, finery, gewgaw, worthless ornament.
a. Showy, glittering, gaudy, superficial, worthless.
錄入:玛格
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Tawdriness, spangle, frippery, glitter
ANT:Costliness, richness, chasteness, gorgeousness, sumptuousness, magnificence,splendor
埃尔韦拉錄入
解釋/意思:
n. something sparkling or shining: glittering metallic sheets as of burnished brass copper or tin almost as thin as foil and used in discs patches strips or threads for giving clothing &c. a striking appearance: anything showy but of little value: anything having a false lustre.—adj. like tinsel: gaudy: superficial.—v.t. to adorn with or as with tinsel: to make glittering or gaudy:—pr.p. tin′selling: pa.t. and pa.p. tin′selled.—adj. Tin′selly like tinsel gaudy showy.—n. Tin′selry glittering and tawdry material.
伊凡手打
例句/造句/用法:
- In some manner two wires had got crossed with this tinsel, which became red-hot, and the whole mass was soon afire. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Another little book or two were lying near, and a common basket of common fruit, and another basket full of strings of beads and tinsel scraps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But I can never have any confidence in the tinsel kings of the theatre after this. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
埃德娜校對