with obj.
1- cover thinly with gold把…镀金。
1.1
- give a specious or false brilliance to为…增添表面（或虚假）光荣：
the useless martyrs' deaths of the pilots gilded the operation.
那些飞行员无谓的殉难给这次行动披上了光荣的外衣。
短语
gild the lily
- try to improve what is already beautiful or excellent锦上添花。
- [ORIGIN: misquotation, from 'To gild refined gold, to paint the lily; to throw perfume on the violet, ... is wasteful, and ridiculous excess'（Shakespeare's King John vi ii. 11.）.]
派生词
gilder
noun词源
Old English gyldan, of Germanic origin; related to GOLD.