She was an attractive girl before she married, but then her husband gilded the lily by making her wear expensive clothes and she now looks just like all the other rich wives around her. 她位很妩媚娘,但她丈她穿华贵装,装饰扮,她看去像周围其阔罢。
The setting sun gilded the sky. 落日把染金。
gilded [ adj ]
having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
<adj.all> long aureate (or golden) hair a gold carpet
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
<adj.all> the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility meretricious praise a meretricious argument
rich and superior in quality
<adj.all> a princely sum gilded dining rooms
made from or covered with gold
<adj.all> gold coins the gold dome of the Capitol the golden calf gilded icons
Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gilded} or {Gilt} (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gilding}.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. [root]234. See {Gold}.] 1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. ``Gilded chariots.'' --Pope.
No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.
2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. --Trumbull.
3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.