prettified

英 [ˈprɪtifaɪd]

美 [ˈprɪtifaɪd]

v.  粉饰，美化(常弄巧成拙)
prettify的过去分词和过去式

过去式：prettified　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 美化；粉饰
  Toprettifysomething, especially something that is not beautiful, means to make it appear pretty.
  1. ...just a clever effort to prettify animal slaughter...
     不过是对残杀动物的行为进行美化的狡猾之举
  2. It presented an intolerably prettified view of the countryside.
     它对农村进行了过度的美化。

双语例句

• It was the newsreels, he concluded. I was a pushover for the prettified black-and-white 'truth' they served up.
  他总结道：（吸引我的）是一个新闻纪录片，其中美化了的非黑即白的‘真理’打动了我。
• The areas that couldn't be prettified in time were hidden behind Olympic billboards that would have made Grigori Potemkin proud.
  在这一时刻，骄傲的格里戈里·波特金奥运广告牌背后隐藏着无法美化的区域。
• Therefore the best thing you can be in Bali is alus, which means refined, or even prettified.
  因此在巴厘岛最好做个alus，即有教养或美化过的人。
• While other kinds of literatures passionately portrayed the prettified figures of the honest and upright officials, vernacular novels held an important significance in the reflection on the honest and upright officials.
  当其它文学热情地塑造清官神话时，话本小说对清官的反思具有重要的意义。
• Accounts of this series of battles have often been prettified.
  有关这一连串的战役的叙述常常被加以美化。