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词汇 ornamenting
释义 ornamenting
present participle ofornament
ornament
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /ˈɔː.nə.ment/ us /ˈɔːr.nə.ment/
to add decoration to something: 装饰,点缀
She ornamented her letters with little drawings in the margin.她在信的页边空白处画上小图案来作装饰。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Decorating or making something attractive
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Examples of ornamenting


ornamenting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


We have to invent tradition by freely ornamenting our recollections to gain not only some sense of self but also the acceptance of others.
Was this the time to spend money in ornamenting generals?
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We are constantly "altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing cleaning, washing, freezing, packing or canning, or adapting for sale, or breaking up or demolishing" white heather.
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The 15th-century cloisters have many small bosses ornamenting the vault.
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Hours would be spent washing, combing, oiling, styling and ornamenting their hair.
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Major figurative decoration occurs particularly around the portals of cathedrals and churches, ornamenting the tympanum, lintels, jambs and central posts.
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The purpose of the invention is described as providing a convenient and economical means of lettering, ornamenting, or filling the wire mesh.
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Those in favor tried to create beautiful objects, approaching exotic subjects and ornamenting them with a musical language, but which are cold.
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Jazz guitarists usually learn the appropriate ornamenting styles by listening to prominent recordings from a given style or jazz era.
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They are found ornamenting the piers of the nave, choir and transepts.
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He extensively remodeled the house between 17331737, adding a third story, encasing its east facade in clapboard, and ornamenting the exterior with architectural details and continuous strips of spandrel panels.
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The modernist context, and the time leading up to it, meant that architects were more concerned with the problem of building, rather than in the art of ornamenting.
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