| 单词 | burnish |
| 释义 | burnish verb[T] uk/ˈbɜː.nɪʃ/us/ˈbɝː.nɪʃ/literary torubmetaluntil it issmoothandshiny 擦亮；使有光泽If you burnish something such asyourpublicimage, you takeactiontoimproveit and make it moreattractive: 给…增色；改善（公众形象）Thecompanyiscurrentlytryingto burnishitssociallyresponsibleimage.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。 Polishing & polishes
Examplesofburnishburnish You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold! From theCambridge English Corpus Newness was part of an aura that the network skillfully burnished in its rise to global prominence. From theCambridge English Corpus The sun caught the lake through a cleft in the heights and it shone like burnished steel. From theCambridge English Corpus In both cases the vessels have a polished or burnished finish that may be indicative of a special ware. From theCambridge English Corpus Top left, shallow channelled ware ; top right, comb-impressed black burnished ware ; bottom left, red slipped ware ; bottom right, comb-impressed red burnished ware. From theCambridge English Corpus The replicas were each modeled in clay and refined through additional sculpting, and those with polished surfaces were burnished. From theCambridge English Corpus Even when crafted using very fine, smooth, porcelain clay, only a small percentage of tools with more delicate features survive the carving, thinning, and burnishing processes. From theCambridge English Corpus She hoped with all her heart that the women were out there, darkly burnished, biding their time, brass-metalling their nails, filing their incisors - but out there. From theCambridge English Corpus His comb is redder than coral, his bill black as jet, his claws whiter than the lily, his legs azure, and his body like burnished gold. From theCambridge English Corpus He evidently considered that all pottery of that period was intended to be reduced black or grey, and thought that black burnished were actually coated with bitumen. From theCambridge English Corpus The degree ofburnishvisible is obviously related to post-depositional processes. From theCambridge English Corpus Typically, this ware had a patternburnishon a red, grey or light brown surface, and it was applied to goblets with tall narrow stems or conical pedestal bases. From theCambridge English Corpus Even our old friends co-ordination and integration are dragged out, burnished up and produced again for our contemplation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Unnecessary scrubbing, burnishing, blancoing and polishing have been forbidden and unit administration has been reviewed to cut out waste of time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us now start to blow away the cobwebs of bygone years and hand on our democratic system to our children, bright and burnished. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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