embellish
英 [?m'bel??; em-]
美
- vt. 修飾；裝飾；潤色
- vi. 裝飾起來；加以潤色
助記提示
1. To embellish something is literally to 'make it beautiful'.
2. beau, beauty, belle => embellish.
3. bellus "beautiful, pretty" <===> bon- "good", bene- "well".
4. 諧音“姨母白麗兮”。
中文詞源
embellish 裝飾em-, 進入，使。-bell，美麗，詞源同 belle, beauty.
英文詞源
- embellish
- embellish: [14] To embellish something is literally to ‘make it beautiful’. It comes from Old French embellir, a compound verb formed from the prefix en-, which denotes ‘causing’ or ‘making’, and bel ‘beautiful’. This Old French adjective (source of modern French beau) came from Latin bellus ‘beautiful’, and its other English offspring include beau, belle, and beauty.
=> beau, beauty, belle - embellish (v.)
- mid-14c., "to render beautiful," from Old French embelliss-, stem of embellir "make beautiful, ornament," from assimilated form of en- (see en- (1)) + bel "beautiful," from Latin bellus "handsome, pretty, fine" (see bene-). Meaning "dress up (a narration) with fictitious matter" is from mid-15c. Related: Embellished; embellishing.
雙語例句
- 1. Embellish basic covers and curtains with borders, ties and fringing.
- 用鑲邊、系帶和流蘇裝飾樸素的床罩和窗簾。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Just tell the truth and don't embellish the story by any means.
- 你只要講清事實,千萬不要添枝加葉.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. I asked him not to embellish the truth with ideas of his own.
- 我要他不對事實添油加醋.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Ivy leaves embellish the front of the dresser.
- 梳妝臺正面飾有常春藤葉子。
來自辭典例句
- 5. Various windows embellish the corridor, with the shape of square, circle, hexagon and octagon.
- 走廊的窗戶形狀各異，有方形，有圓形，有六角形，也有八角形。
來自辭典例句