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vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)

          1.    美化;裝飾


The Columbia Guide to Standard American English

embellish (v.) 
   
meaning "to ornament, decorate, or improve," when combined with a preposition, almost always takes with: He embellished his tales with some macabre line drawings. 

To embellish the truth means "to exaggerate, to lie, to add spurious detail" and is pejorative, as the verb alone is not.   
 

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According to Anderson, "I think it was Albert Fall, who was asked to describe drainage before Congress. And his way of describing it was, 'If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and my straw reaches across the room ... 

I'm sure I embellished it and changed it around and made it more Plainview.
 

But Fall used the word milkshake, and I thought it was so great. It was mad to see that word among all this official testimony and terminology - a fucking milkshake. I get so happy every time I hear that word."
 

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stilted tart  
spurious macaber








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