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单词 ornamenting
释义
ornamenting
present participle ofornament
ornament
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˈɔː.nə.ment/us
/ˈɔːr.nə.ment/
toadddecorationto something:
She ornamented herletterswithlittledrawingsin themargin.
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Decorating or making something attractive
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(Definition ofornamentingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofornamenting

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 freelyornamentingour recollections to gain not only some sense of self but also the acceptance of others.
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Was this the time to spend money inornamentinggenerals?
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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 bossesornamentingthe vault.
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Hours would be spent washing, combing, oiling, styling andornamentingtheir hair.
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Major figurative decoration occurs particularly around the portals of cathedrals and churches,ornamentingthe 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 andornamentingthem with a musical language, but which are cold.
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Jazz guitarists usually learn the appropriateornamentingstyles by listening to prominent recordings from a given style or jazz era.
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They are foundornamentingthe 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, andornamentingthe 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 ofornamenting.
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