Embellish

(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

• 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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