gild是什么意思？

gild

英[gɪld] 美[ɡɪld]

• vt. 镀金，给…贴上金箔，修饰，虚饰，使阔气，使有钱，使光彩夺目；
• n. 协会，行会（同guild），同业公会，[植]依赖植物集团；

过去式：gilded;

过去分词：gilded;

现在分词：gilding;

第三人称单数：gilds;

例句

• Distrusting every light that seemed to gild. 我信不过那似乎浮泛在眼前的.
• To talk about the beautiful sunset is to gild the lily. 谈论日落之美是多此一举.
• She had health and beauty, and money to gild these gifts. 她健康而漂亮, 富有使这些天赋更加熠熠生辉.
• Carve the names and gild them. 把姓名刻上去，再镀上金。

词组

• gild the lily
  To adorn unnecessarily something already beautiful. 画蛇添足：不必要地修饰本来就很美的东西 To make superfluous additions to what is already complete. 画蛇添足：对原本已很完整的东西作多余的添加

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  给…镀金；涂金于…
  If you gild a surface, you cover it in a thin layer of gold or gold paint.
  例句
  Carve the names and gild them. 把姓名刻上去，再镀上金。 ...gilded statues. 镀金雕像
• PHRASE
  画蛇添足；多此一举
  If you say that someone is gilding the lily, you mean that they are spoiling something that is already beautiful or perfect by trying to improve it or by praising it too highly.
  例句
  Gilding the lily of what is basically a romantic comedy, the director falls a little short of his best mark. 这基本上是一出浪漫喜剧，这位导演却画蛇添足，没有发挥出他的最佳水平。

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  把…镀金;给…上金色, 使有金子般的色彩
  The morning sun gilds the sky. 朝阳把天空染成金色。
  作多余的修饰(反而破坏原已完美的东西)；画蛇添足
  The dress is perfect. Don’t add anything to it at all. It would just be gilding the lily. 这条裙子已经很完美了，别再作任何修饰了，那只会画蛇添足。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a formal association of people with similar interests;
  "he joined a golf club""they formed a small lunch society""men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
• Verb
  1. decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold