| 正面 | 12975.embellish 英 [ɪm'belɪʃ; em-]美     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. To embellish something is literally to 'make it beautiful'.2. beau, beauty, belle => embellish.3. bellus "beautiful, pretty" <===> bon- "good", bene- "well".4. 谐音“姨母白丽兮”。vt. 修饰；装饰；润色vi. 装饰起来；加以润色 例句： 1. Embellish basic covers and curtains with borders, ties and fringing.用镶边、系带和流苏装饰朴素的床罩和窗帘。 embellish 装饰em-, 进入，使。-bell，美丽，词源同 belle, beauty. embellishembellish: [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, belleembellish (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." |