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 gilded [gɪld]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 镀金的, 有钱的, 装饰的
gild的过去式和过去分词

  1. The setting sun gilded the sky.
    落日把天空染成金色。
  2. She was an attractive girl before she married, but then her husband gilded the lily by making her wear expensive clothes and she now looks just like all the other rich wives around her.
    她结婚之前本是位很妩媚的姑娘,但婚后她丈夫要她穿华贵的衣装,过分的装饰打扮,现在她看上去只不过像周围的其他阔妇人一样罢了。
  3. The setting sun gilded the sky.
    落日把天空染成金色。


gilded
[ adj ]
  1. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

  2. <adj.all>
    long aureate (or golden) hair
    a gold carpet
  3. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

  4. <adj.all>
    the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
    meretricious praise
    a meretricious argument
  5. rich and superior in quality

  6. <adj.all>
    a princely sum
    gilded dining rooms
  7. made from or covered with gold

  8. <adj.all>
    gold coins
    the gold dome of the Capitol
    the golden calf
    gilded icons


Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gilded} or {Gilt}
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gilding}.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.
[root]234. See {Gold}.]
1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a
golden color; to cause to look like gold. ``Gilded
chariots.'' --Pope.

No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.

2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.

Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
Gild the calm evening of your day. --Trumbull.

3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to
embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.

4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]

This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak.

  1. Greater sales of higher added value glasses further gilded the profits rebound.
  2. The Roman emperor and his horse were reunited Tuesday after an eight-year restoration of the gilded bronze equestrian statue.
  3. But behind a carved 15th century walnut door, pilgrims with covered heads speak in hushed tones beside Kussam's gilded tomb.
  4. The house boasts a splendid bathroom where the window frame, shutters, cabinet and water tank are gilded with 23 carat gold leaf.
  5. If Mr. Minkow was a slave to mobsters, he suffered in a gilded cage.
  6. True, the earnings rise is gilded because last year's figure was depressed by exceptional items, but underlying profits growth is being fuelled by cost control and cash management.
  7. The giggling child is the only recognizably human creature in the gilded court Mr. Bertolucci has re-created.
  8. Now, leaning back in his chair behind an ornately gilded desk in his oak-paneled office, he reflects on the process that led to the merger.
  9. American Brands Inc.'s offer for all the long-term debt of E-II Holdings Inc. expired with few takers, as debt holders apparently believe that their junk bonds may be gilded in the pending merger of E-II into American Brands.
  10. Hundreds of spectators gathered to cheer Tsukudajima fishermen as they heaved a gilded shrine onto a barge in Sumida River as part of a summer festival held every three years since the mid-1600s.
  11. The museum discovered Tuesday that a gilded eagle atop a Napoleonic flag was also stolen.
  12. Built in the late 19th century to commemorate the Russian victory over Napoleon, the cathedral was an architectural masterpiece of gilded cupolas, imported marbles and frescoes that took 40 years and 15 million rubles to complete.
  13. Rock legend Bob Dylan was named a commander in France's Order of Arts and Letters on Tuesday, in a ceremony in a gilded neoclassical reception room at the Palais Royal.
  14. It was a gilded collection, featuring gold threads in the first knit items right through gilt nailheads all over, plus gold lame shining through the colorful silk print dinner dresses at the end.
  15. Handbags were scaled up and down, gilded Gs taken off everything from belts to luggage, but she made sure that the classic loafer was still available in all its original simplicity.
  16. To enhance its quality image, Hammond also revamped its well-known trade line of world atlases, replacing the old cloth covered book with a leather bound, gilded, thumb-indexed edition.
  17. The ceremony took place in the gilded salons of the French Culture Ministry.
  18. We are ushered into the story by RR's voice-over, purring gilded sentences from the homonymous boyhood memoir by Norman MacLean.
  19. Bryson said the only other casualties were a woman who broke the fall of a rider who fell from his float and two people struck by the prized gilded coconuts tossed by the Zulu marching society. "Nothing serious," he said.
  20. To ensure that his entry is noticed, Mr. Wexner has graced it with a grand staircase, tons of marble and a gilded dome over the cosmetics department.
  21. Developer Donald Trump marked the restart of construction on his newly purchased Taj Mahal casino project by inviting guests into a chilly arena and snipping a gilded ribbon.
  22. Here is a random example (from Alexander Pope) of strong language at its best: 'Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings'.
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