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单词 gild
释义
gild
verb[T]
uk
/ɡɪld/us
/ɡɪld/
tocoverasurfacewith athinlayerofgoldor asubstancethatlookslikegold
给…镀金；给…涂上金色
literary
tocoverthesurfaceof something withbright, gold-colouredlight:
（光）把…染成金色
Sunlight gilded the children'sfaces.孩子们的脸庞在阳光下熠熠生辉。
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Covering and adding layers
Giving out light

Idiom

gild the lily
(Definition ofgildfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgild

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The main piece of evidence for this is a statute of 1436 requiring all gilds to register their ordinances with local authorities.
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However, this act seems to have been ineffectual, suggesting something of what the gilds themselves thought of the idea.
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Inclusive and open meetings under the 'canopy of heaven' invested themselves with an 'honesty' that was unattainable in 'fashionable halls and gilded rooms'.
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The capacity for subjects to conduct their own affairs, at a village or town level, in gilds or in universities, is not really considered.
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The foundation of gilds and fraternities was common in the early and mid-fifteenth century.
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The same is true of his treatment of the many manifestations of thegild.
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In this respect, the article has a wider significance to urban historians for the understanding of the nature of gilds and the position of gilds within the world of work.
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A network of meanings led to "inhibition" becoming a valued word in physiological science, and this network then provided a ready home for a "popularized" usage gilded with scientific authority.
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Its tone fits in much more easily with the generally hostile attitude displayed by the crown towards the gilds as evidenced by the 1389 survey and the 1548 dissolution.
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The boundaries between the different crafts which constituted thegildwere deliberately imprecise, allowing craftsmen to negotiate constantly with other members of the gild in the production of art.
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These barges are called ' 'flower boats,' ' a name they derive from the elegant and ornamental style in which they are fitted up, and carried and gilded.
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These large, gilded bronze statues must have made a startling impact, and may have helped to achieve the evident aim of identifying the urban elite with this highly charged location.
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In three of the four cases the gilds had little or no direct political voice, and the government acted early and decisively against the spread of evangelical ideas.
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Most single women worked in domestic service, farm labour, or lowly occupations not covered bygildrestrictions, though borough laws often sought to prevent spinsters from living and working independently.
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The key difference in status among the victualling gilds was in wholesale versus retail trade: to trade wholesale required considerable capital and was therefore high status.
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