prettifying

英 [ˈprɪtifaɪɪŋ]

美 [ˈprɪtifaɪɪŋ]

v.  粉饰，美化(常弄巧成拙)
prettify的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 美化；粉饰
  Toprettifysomething, especially something that is not beautiful, means to make it appear pretty.
  1. ...just a clever effort to prettify animal slaughter...
     不过是对残杀动物的行为进行美化的狡猾之举
  2. It presented an intolerably prettified view of the countryside.
     它对农村进行了过度的美化。

双语例句

• Many people would approve of prettifying towns and cities, but guerrilla gardening is not strictly legal. Therefore, this type of gardening often takes place in the dead of night.
  许多人赞同美化城镇，但是游击队式园艺从严格意义上讲并不合法。因此，这种园艺方式通常在夜间进行。
• Though, there are the consciousness and effect of belittling Western learning and prettifying traditional culture in his study, generally speaking, but it grew with the times.
  他的国粹研究虽然存在着贬低西学、美化传统文化的效应，但总的说来是与时俱进的。
• It has great significance for increasing product's quality, protecting merchandise, prettifying merchandise and higher efficiency by lower power.
  对于提高产品质量、保护商品、美化商品、高效低耗等，具有重要的意义。
• The nurses came on their daily round of washing, changing, combing and prettifying the patients before the matron's inspection.
  护士长查房以前，护士们要为病人梳洗、换衣、打扮，这成为每日例行的公事。
• The green space has played essential role in protecting, improving and prettifying environment of small towns. Meanwhile, plant disposition has been paid more attention nowadays.
  园林绿地在保护、改善、美化城镇环境方面发挥着重要作用，植物配置已日益引起人们的关注。
• In fact, the construction of eco-environment beauty is the improvement and circulation of three forms and content getting to the higher level, that is the gradual promotion and the externalized three-stages as follows: interacting → prettifying → aesthetic field.
  生态环境美的建设过程实际上是其三种形态与内涵向更高层面的攀升与循环，即中和-美化-审美场的阶梯性升级以及表现于外的三个阶段。