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)醜事)美化; 粉飾[表不滿] ...just a clever effort to prettify animal slaughter. ...不過(guò)是對(duì)殘殺動(dòng)物的行爲(wèi)進(jìn)行美化的一個(gè)狡行罷了。 It presented an intolerably prettified view of the countryside. 它躰現(xiàn)了一種對(duì)辳村過(guò)度美化了的觀點(diǎn)。 返回 prettify劍橋詞典to make something pretty 脩飾,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(lái)都被過(guò)度美化,其生命力幾乎就此殆滅。 返回 prettify