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词汇 burnish
释义 burnish
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈbɜː.nɪʃ/ us /ˈbɝː.nɪʃ/
literary
to rub metal until it is smooth and shiny擦亮;使有光泽
If you burnish something such as your public image, you take action to improve it and make it more attractive: 给…增色;改善(公众形象)
The company is currently trying to burnish its socially responsible image.公司目前正在努力改善形象,把自己塑造成一个有社会责任感的公司。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Polishing & polishes
beeswax
buff
bull
burnished
dubbin
finish
french-polish
polish
polish something up
polished
repolish
rosin
rub
rub something down
shine
unpolished

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Examples of burnish


burnish
You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!
Newness was part of an aura that the network skillfully burnished in its rise to global prominence.
The sun caught the lake through a cleft in the heights and it shone like burnished steel.
In both cases the vessels have a polished or burnished finish that may be indicative of a special ware.
Top left, shallow channelled ware ; top right, comb-impressed black burnished ware ; bottom left, red slipped ware ; bottom right, comb-impressed red burnished ware.
The replicas were each modeled in clay and refined through additional sculpting, and those with polished surfaces were burnished.
Even when crafted using very fine, smooth, porcelain clay, only a small percentage of tools with more delicate features survive the carving, thinning, and burnishing processes.
She hoped with all her heart that the women were out there, darkly burnished, biding their time, brass-metalling their nails, filing their incisors - but out there.
His comb is redder than coral, his bill black as jet, his claws whiter than the lily, his legs azure, and his body like burnished gold.
He evidently considered that all pottery of that period was intended to be reduced black or grey, and thought that black burnished were actually coated with bitumen.
The degree of burnish visible is obviously related to post-depositional processes.
Typically, this ware had a pattern burnish on a red, grey or light brown surface, and it was applied to goblets with tall narrow stems or conical pedestal bases.
Even our old friends co-ordination and integration are dragged out, burnished up and produced again for our contemplation.
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Unnecessary scrubbing, burnishing, blancoing and polishing have been forbidden and unit administration has been reviewed to cut out waste of time.
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Let us now start to blow away the cobwebs of bygone years and hand on our democratic system to our children, bright and burnished.
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Hansard archive

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