adorning

adorning是英語單詞，具有名詞、形容詞和動詞三種詞性。作為名詞時意為“裝飾物”，形容詞時表示“修飾的”，動詞時為adorn的現在分詞形式，含義為“裝飾”。該詞常用於描述通過添加裝飾品或修飾物來提升美感，例如“佩戴珠寶”（adorning oneself with jewels）或“裝飾房屋”（adorning a house with ornaments）。此外，adorning也可用於比喻語境，如“用謊言修飾故事”（adorning a story with lies）。

基本介紹

• 詞性：名詞/形容詞/動詞   
• 發音：英/ə'dɔːnɪŋ/ 美/ə'dɔːrnɪŋ/  
• 詞源：中古英語→古法語→拉丁語 
• 同義詞：decorate、grace、enhance  

詞性與用法

adorning作為英語單詞，主要用法包括：

1. 名詞：指裝飾物或修飾元素，例如“The adorning on the dress was intricate”（裙子的裝飾物很精緻）。
2. 形容詞：修飾的。
3. 動詞：裝飾（adorn的現在分詞形式），表示正在進行的裝飾動作，常見於進行時態或作為修飾成分，例如“She is adorning the cake with flowers”（她正在用花朵裝飾蛋糕）。

例句與語境

根據2025年更新的資料，adorning在不同語境中的例句包括：

• 實物裝飾：“Their house is adorned with beautiful antique ornaments”（他們的房子裝飾著漂亮的古董飾品）。
• 比喻用法：“He tried to adorn his story with a lot of lies”（他試圖用大量謊言修飾自己的故事）。

詞源與演變

adorning源自動詞adorn，其詞源可追溯至：

• 中古英語：adornen
• 古法語：adourner
• 拉丁語：adōrnāre（意為“裝備、裝飾”）

同義詞辨析

adorning的近義詞包括：

• decorate：添加裝飾物以美化外觀。
• grace：強調優雅或高貴的美化效果。
• enhance：指通過裝飾提升整體品質或價值。

雙語例句

• Adorning the tree is the next step. 下一步是裝飾聖誕樹。
• She never wasted time adorning herself. 她從不在裝飾打扮上浪費時間。
• Apple signs adorning the walls appeared to be copies. 牆上裝飾的蘋果標識很明顯是複製品。
• I can see understanding adorning in about 50% of faces. 我明白50%的人懂了。
• She worked hard at her studies and never wasted time adorning herself. 她學習刻苦努力，從不在打扮上浪費時間。
• Many have gems adorning their foreheads, and gold bands on their arms. 許多人在前額上掛著寶石，手臂上戴著金飾。
• His public-relations staff flinch at the Rolex watch adorning his wrist. 其公關部職員一看到他手腕上的勞力士表便望而卻步。
• My noblemen are adorning their armour, Soon they will be ready to siege. 我的手下正在修裝甲。馬上我們就可以進攻了。
• The commandments, or rules, are like pure white pearls adorning the wearer. （喻）戒律潔白，可以莊嚴人身，好像晶瑩可愛的寶珠。
• Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the ephod and the rational. 紅瑪瑙石和為鑲在厄弗得和胸牌上的寶石。
• Career Management System Research and Design of BD Advertising Adorning Limited Company. BD廣告裝飾有限公司職業管理體系的研究與設計。
• If you like to have beauty you can easily see, nothing quite matches adorning yourself with a gemstone bracelet. 如果你要美麗，您可以很容易地看到，沒有任何裝飾自己很匹配的寶石手鐲。
• The relations between format arrangement and the harmony and unification of book adorning design were explained. 並說明了版式編排與書籍裝幀整體設計協調和統一的聯繫。
• Our company's major products includes: long plush toys, short plush toys, cloth toys, ornament toys, music toys, little adorning etc. 我公司主要生產銷售各類長毛絨玩具、短毛絨玩具、布料玩具、飾品玩具、音樂玩具、小掛件等。
• In Smithfield images of hogs vie with American flags as a badge of pride, adorning shopfronts, school sports kit and the town water tower. 史密斯·菲爾德的火腿畫像甚至與美國國旗在店面裝飾上、學校體育設施上、還有鎮裡的水塔上搶地盤，這可以算一種榮耀了。
• Maxine and Patty, named after Broadway beauties the Andrews sisters, may simply have viewed the dirty blemish as adorning their good looks. 這兩隻以百老匯名媛安德魯斯姐妹命名的大象——瑪克辛和帕蒂把那些塵埃污漬看作是對自己芳容的裝點。
• Hirst decorated a series of 12 one-of-a-kind gator backpacks, adorning them with gold and mutilcolor spots, as well as brightly-hued pills. 赫斯特設計了一系列短吻鱷魚皮背包，共有12款，包上繪有金色和彩色的斑點，飾以亮色的小球。
• Before long, though, microwave ovens were adorning the kitchens in over nine million homes, or about 14%, of all the homes in the United States. 不久以後，超過九百萬，即大約14%的美國家庭廚房裡都有了微波爐。
• One such room exhibited a magnificent collection of Star Wars figurines and toys, a theme echoed in the posters adorning the walls and ceiling. 有這樣的一個房間，裡面收藏了大量的星球大戰的小雕像和玩具，這一主題正好與裝飾在牆壁和天花板上的海報相呼應。
• Presently adorning Standardarchitecture's headquarters is a 32-m-long sculptural object: a behemoth that divides the space into two equal parts. 現在標準營造的辦公室兀立著一個32米長的雕塑般的作品，把空間一分為二。
• The attractive couple rises in the east about 2.5 hours before sunrise (at mid-northern latitudes), adorning the dawn and predawn hours tomorrow. 這對迷人的星體將會在日出前的2.5個小時內從東方升起(在中北緯度)，點綴明天的黎明。
• And I got to see many rich people dressed in their finest livery, admiring the dazzling jewels adorning the many tall thin models, planning their next buy. 不過，這個派對真的很酷，還有我看到許\多有錢人穿著他們很名貴的衣著、身上有很多耀眼珠寶且又高又瘦的模特兒們，正在打算著他們的下一件珠寶要買什麼。
• She went upstairs and lay awake all night, thinking of her pearls adorning the neck of another, and of the consideration her husband had presumably received therefore. 她上了樓，一夜都沒有合眼，總在想著自己的珍珠項圈戴在另一個人的脖子上，想著自己的丈夫送了項圈可能受到的優待。
• When Daniella Westbrook, a soap actress, was photographed with the Burberry check adorning herself, her daughter and her pushchair, the brand's elite reputation seemed to be lost. 當肥皂劇演員達妮埃拉·韋斯特布魯克，被拍照用Burberry裝飾自己，女兒和嬰兒推車的時候，該品牌的精英聲譽似乎喪失了。
• They're everywhere: tucked away in magazines, adorning business CARDS and t-shirts and splashed across posters and billboards, not to mention on display at The Museum of Modern Art. 它們隨處可見：在雜誌里、商務名片上、以及T恤衫上，甚至在海報和公告牌上也到處都是它們的身影，更別提現代藝術博物館(The Museumof Modern Art)里的展覽上了。