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词汇 decorating
释义 decorating
present participle ofdecorate
decorate
verb
uk /ˈdek.ə.reɪt/ us /ˈdek.ər.eɪt/

decorateverb (MAKE ATTRACTIVE)


B1[ T ]
to add something to an object or place, especially in order to make it more attractive: 装饰,装点,打扮
They decorated the wedding car with ribbons and flowers.他们用彩带和鲜花装点婚车。
B1[ I or T ]mainly UK(US usuallyredecorate)
to paint the inside or outside of a house or put paper on the inside walls: 粉刷;(给…)贴壁纸
We're going to decorate the kitchen next week.我们下周要粉刷厨房。
I hate the smell of paint when I'm decorating.我刷墙时很讨厌油漆味儿。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to decorate a room, house, etc.
decorateUKI love to decorate and create cosy spaces in each room.
redecorateI'm redecorating my bedroom in this season's latest colors.
refurbishThe University library is currently being refurbished.
renovateThey were in the process of renovating an old barn.
revampThe restaurant has recently been revamped.
do upHe's bought an old cottage and is gradually doing it up.
He promised he'd help me decorate, but now he's trying to wriggle out of it.
She's even decorated the spare room in anticipation of your visit.她预料到你会来访,连备用客房都装修好了。
In the centre of the hall stood a colossal wooden statue, decorated in ivory and gold.大厅中央矗立着一尊用象牙和金子装饰的木质巨型雕像。
She decorated the cake herself.她亲自装点蛋糕。
When we moved in, the house hadn't been decorated for 20 years, and it showed.我们搬进去时,那房子已有20年没有装修过了,这能看得出来。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Decorating or making something attractive
accessorize
adorn
adornment
beautification
beautify
embellish
embellishment
festoon
flock
foliated
garland
ornamentation
ornate
over-glamorize
overdecorate
overdecoration
unembellished
window dressing
yarn bombing
zhuzh

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Building: interior decoration

decorateverb (HONOUR)


[ T ]
to reward or honour a person by giving them something, especially a medal: (尤指授予奖章以)嘉奖,表彰
They were decorated for their part in the rescue.他们因在此次救援行动中的表现而受到嘉奖。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Praising and applauding
acclaim
acclamation
accolade
adulate
adulation
compliment
complimentary
enthrone
enthronement
eulogistic
eulogistically
eulogize
hail
ooh and aahidiom
ovation
overpraise
overpraised
paean
puff
slap

Examples of decorating


decorating

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


Dissonance spreads through the harmony, though the strings push on optimistically, the piano decorating until it picks up the reel itself - wonderfully catchy writing, this.
Creativity is crucial to pattern design that is widely used in the area of textiles and decorating.
Others could have been used as or thostats to form composite narratives decorating the facades of public buildings.
Generating trees in this way corresponds to selecting a random tree structure and decorating it with labels according to this fixed distribution.
Nature walks around the lake, fishing, and, this year, pumpkin picking and decorating help continue the relationships that were forged in camp.
Finally, the senses of 'decoration' include a military badge of honor, an ornament and the nominalization sense, which means the act or process of decorating.
The open-mouthed serpent heads decorating the temples differ from building to building and on the columns versus the balustrades of the same building.
The majority of workers were employed in the clay and potting shops and relatively few in decorating and glazing ware.
Cases are divided between workers in the dipping house and those employed in decorating shops.
A tradition of decorating one's home, if one has a son, with a display of dolls and carp streamers.
The annotated terms are produced by decorating a type-inference tree.
These arches, with see-through fasciae and tympanums ornamented with elements of various colours constitute the main decorating feature.
Distant children sometimes took the opportunity of a stay with parents to help with decorating or household repairs and sometimes took parents home with them for short breaks.
The sequents are also decorated with proof terms, and equivalence of proofs is then axiomatized in such a way that proofs decorating equivalent concurrent computations are identified.
While these senses are logically related in that a physical decoration is often the result of some instance of 'decorating', we do not explicitly represent these relations.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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