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adornment [ə'dɔrnmənt]

n. 装饰, 装饰品

Elaborate adornment, especially fine clothing and accessories.
华丽的服饰奢华的装饰，尤指浮华衣着和小件衣饰
An adornment or a cover.
装饰物或覆盖物
The time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devote to the neglect of his duty.
他把花在打扮上的时间省下来，却用到了玩忽职守上去。

adornment

[ noun ]

<noun.artifact>

<noun.act>

Adornment \A*dorn"ment\ (-ment), n. [Cf. OF. adornement. See
{Adorn}.]
An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

Powerful imagery, but hardly living-room adornment.
Another is the human mind. Ridley picks up the recent work of biologists such as Geoffrey Miller of the University of Sussex in suggesting that the best explanation for human intelligence is as a sexual adornment.
She adds that this kind of adornment has been popular in England "and now it seems to be catching on here."
With 80 per cent of gold off-take going into jewellery, both for adornment and store of value purposes, demand has been driven by rising prosperity, especially in the far east, and by the more recent cyclical upturn in the industrial countries.
The badge quickly became an essential adornment for British aficionados of the group, whose debut album topped U.S. charts for seven weeks last winter.
Yet in Europe suspicions linger that PCs are an adornment rather than critical to a business. It is hard to blame hardware manufacturers.
Do you long to throw taste and caution to the wind, to indulge in a splash and clash of colour or layers of rich adornment? If your world is a round of business meetings and rushing for the 7.15 this could be tricky in your daily life.
Fur trims and accessories are in the collections, and it is all right to wear fur as a transient, authorised adornment.
This seems to contrast starkly with the minimalism of accountants whose offices lack all adornment. Maybe it is true that extroverted, hail-fellow-well-met marketeers can best be managed by lots of reward.

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