embellishment是什么意思？

embellishment

英[ɪm'belɪʃmənt] 美[ɛmˈbɛlɪʃmənt]

• n. 装饰，修饰，润色；

复数：embellishments;

动词：embellish;

例句

• A word or phrase interpolated as an embellishment in the sung parts of certain medieval liturgies. 对书的修饰、建筑物的装饰、言语的润色.
• His articles are natural and without embellishment. 他的文章不事雕琢,自然质朴.
• I am sensible they might tend very much to the embellishment of my paper. 我明知他们也许足以为本报生色.
• Truscott's verbosity made it hard to separate plain fact from decorative embellishment. 特拉斯科特说话啰唆，让人很难分清哪是纯粹的事实哪是添油加醋的修饰之辞。
• ...public buildings with little bits of decoration and embellishment. 没有太多装潢的公共建筑

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-VAR
  装饰;修饰
  An embellishment is a decoration added to something to make it seem more attractive or interesting.
  例句
  ...Renaissance embellishments. 文艺复兴时期的装饰 ...public buildings with little bits of decoration and embellishment. 没有太多装潢的公共建筑

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail;
  "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings"
  2. a superfluous ornament
  3. the act of adding extraneous decorations to something