柯林斯詞典prettify /?pr?t??fa?/ (prettifying,prettified,prettifies) 1. V-T To prettify something, especially something that is ugly, means to try to make it appear more attractive. (尤指對(duì)丑事)美化; 粉飾[表不滿] ...just a clever effort to prettify animal slaughter. ...不過是對(duì)殘殺動(dòng)物的行為進(jìn)行美化的一個(gè)狡行罷了。 It presented an intolerably prettified view of the countryside. 它體現(xiàn)了一種對(duì)農(nóng)村過度美化了的觀點(diǎn)。 返回 prettify劍橋詞典to make something pretty 修飾,美化 Everything in the town seems to have been prettified to within an inch of its life . 鎮(zhèn)上的各種事物看來都被過度美化,其生命力幾乎就此殆滅。 返回 prettify