The book is adorned with excellent illustrations. 书内有精美插图。
His house is lavishly adorned. 他的家装饰得非常华丽。
The curious bottle which now adorns the bookcase in his study was his first and last purchase of rare cosmetics. 现在装饰在他的书房书架上的古怪瓶子,是他头一次也是最后一次购买的稀罕化妆品。
adorn
[ verb ]
make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
Adorn \A*dorn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adorned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adorning}.] [OE. aournen, anournen, adornen, OF. aorner, fr. L. aaornare; ad + ornare to furnish, embellish. See {Adore}, {Ornate}.] To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. --Isa. lxi. 10.
At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. --Goldsmith.
Usage: To {Adorn}, {Ornament}, {Decorate}, {Embellish}. We decorate and ornament by putting on some adjunct which is attractive or beautiful, and which serves to heighten the general effect. Thus, a lady's head-dress may be ornament or decorated with flowers or jewelry; a hall may be decorated or ornament with carving or gilding, with wreaths of flowers, or with hangings. Ornament is used in a wider sense than decorate. To embellish is to beautify or ornament richly, not so much by mere additions or details as by modifying the thing itself as a whole. It sometimes means gaudy and artificial decoration. We embellish a book with rich engravings; a style is embellished with rich and beautiful imagery; a shopkeeper embellishes his front window to attract attention. Adorn is sometimes identical with decorate, as when we say, a lady was adorned with jewels. In other cases, it seems to imply something more. Thus, we speak of a gallery of paintings as adorned with the works of some of the great masters, or adorned with noble statuary and columns. Here decorated and ornamented would hardly be appropriate. There is a value in these works of genius beyond mere show and ornament. Adorn may be used of what is purely moral; as, a character adorned with every Christian grace. Here neither decorate, nor ornament, nor embellish is proper.
Adorn \A*dorn"\, n. Adornment. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Adorn \A*dorn"\, a. Adorned; decorated. [Obs.] --Milton.
Even the sales tags that now adorn many items and the "buy one, get one free" signs across racks of merchandise don't seem to be enticing once-loyal customers.
Worshippers bring a statue of the Madonna each week and adorn it with roses.
I'm recommending them." The "new presidential shirts" sell for $36 in the golf shop, where photos of Bush driving a golf cart adorn the wall.
A correspondent who is not a leading man, but who is a digger and has imagination and stamina, is tempted to adorn a tell story with daring and unsupported conjectures.
His name is emblazoned on buildings, streets, and memorials throughout Albania and his books and portraits adorn every institution.
But after two winters of dual embargo from both the United Nations and the Iraqi regime, they continue to face severe economic problems. Yellow and white narcissi, the symbol of spring, adorn tents, shacks and houses.
At the symphony, bandages adorn the noses of three spectators and one woodwind player.
The table is set for 48 guests; over 300 plates, dishes, tureens, candlesticks and the like adorn its snow white cloth. Dominating the whole setting is a grand surtout or centrepiece complete with finely modelled hounds, hunting horn and dead game.
Two corporate logos adorn nearly every street corner, shop and office building in Turkey. One is the red ram's head emblem of the Koc business empire.
Giant red, yellow and green lollipops adorn the posts and sides, and a life-sized Santa stands at the back entrance.
White horses and imperial eagles also adorn many of her outfits.
Although Mickey, Donald and their friends may not have instant name recognition in the Soviet Union yet, their faces adorn T-shirts, badges, children's clothing and hundreds of other items made by cooperatives or sold on the black market.
Pictures of a smiling Saddam are on posters everywhere, and photos of him adorn the front page of every newspaper.
Earrings probably won't become de rigueur among the ranks of Portland's Finest, but policemen wishing to adorn their ears with dainty pieces of precious metal may now do so.
As many as a dozen ads, presented in footsquare boxes along both sides and the bottom edge, adorn his creations.