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小词详解 | burnish
By offering degrees online, universities are making it easier for professionals to burnish their skills.
大学通过提供在线学位,让专业人士更方便地提升技能。
——《经济学人》But if the flaws diminished what Maradona was, they burnished what he represented to those who watched him, those who adored him.
但就算这些缺陷损害了曾经的马拉多纳,对关注他、崇拜他的人来说,它们仍擦亮了他所代表的东西。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 磨亮(某物,尤指金属)
玛丽姨妈把一大角的涂了厚厚一层奶油的多脂甜点放在一个擦得铮亮的银盘里。
Auntie Mary put a huge wedge of rich dessert smothered in cream on a burnished plate of beaten silver.
欧洲议会急需一位能改善其声望的主席。但要挽回受损的公众形象并非易事。
The European Parliament badly needs a president who can burnish its image. But it is not easy to salvage a tarnished public image.这家公司目前正在努力改善形象,把自己塑造成一个有社会责任感的公司。我估计该公司即将上市。
The company is currently trying to burnish its socially responsible image. I guess it is about to float on the stock market.
Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy.
看来外表娇弱,骨骼纤秀,皮肤白皙得好像那火焰般的头发把她的脸上的全部血色都吸收到这炫亮的一丛里来了,可是她却有着充沛的精神和不倦的体力。
polish: make the surface of (something) smooth and shiny by rubbing it gloss: shine or luster on a smooth surface shine: make (an object made of leather, metal, or wood) bright by rubbing it; polish