单词	adorn
释义	adorna‧dorn /əˈdɔːn $ -ɔːrn/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINadorn Origin: 1300-1400 French adorner, from Latin adornare, from ad- ‘to’ + ornare ‘to decorate’ Verb Table VERB TABLE adorn Simple Form Present I, you, we, they adorn he, she, it adorns Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they adorned Present perfect I, you, we, they have adorned he, she, it has adorned Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had adorned Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will adorn Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have adorned Continuous Form Present I am adorning he, she, it is adorning you, we, they are adorning Past I, he, she, it was adorning you, we, they were adorning Present perfect I, you, we, they have been adorning he, she, it has been adorning Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been adorning Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be adorning Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been adorning Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Rings and gems adorned the fingers of both her hands. The bridesmaids had adorned their heads with flowers. The walls of the church were richly adorned with carvings and pictures. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Expect Mark and Jason Lee to adorn your screens right about now. He dyed doves various bright colours to fly around and adorn the folly and the town. Large, colorful graphs and charts will adorn the walls of most offices and factories of the workplace of the future. Lava lamps adorned the stage, while watery, pulsating lights flashed behind them. On a sunny day, it shimmers brightly, almost obscuring the fine frescoes and reliefs that now adorn the structure. She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room. The facades of the buildings were adorned with rich armorial bearings, which Rodrigo Vivero had described with admiration in 1609. Vast modem frescoes adorned the walls of old buildings, and everywhere seemed to be filled with activity and colour. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatordecorated in a particular way► decorated · On the table was an ancient book with a decorated cover.decorated with · The little mirror was decorated with shells and beads.· She wore a wide-brimmed straw hat decorated with colored ribbons.richly/elaborately decorated · Sabina stood in the centre of an elaborately decorated living room. ► be decked out to be specially and colourfully decorated, especially for a celebration or party: be decked out with: · The whole street was decked out with flags and streamers to celebrate the wedding.be decked out for: · Behind the door was another table, all decked out for the party. ► adorn formal to decorate something in a beautiful or artistic way: · Rings and gems adorned the fingers of both her hands.adorn something with something: · The bridesmaids had adorned their heads with flowers.be adorned with something: · The walls of the church were richly adorned with carvings and pictures. ► be festooned with if a place is festooned with something, it has long chains of flowers, flags, or material hanging all around it, giving a bright and cheerful appearance: · On the day of the festival the streets were festooned with flags and banners. ► decor the particular way that a room or building is decorated, including all the colours, furniture, pictures etc: · It was a comfortable enough room, but I didn't like the decor very much.· The hotel's decor is dark and museum-like. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► wall · Several of Gemma's paintings adorn the walls.· Fortunately, there's usually groovy soul music playing and eye-catching art adorning the walls.· Vast modem frescoes adorned the walls of old buildings, and everywhere seemed to be filled with activity and colour.· Large, colorful graphs and charts will adorn the walls of most offices and factories of the workplace of the future.· Roman art continued to adorn the walls of churches and the sides of sarcophagi.· Their walk advertised a circus whose posters had adorned walls and lampposts for the past week.· These various ratings adorned the walls.· An equine print after the style of Stubbs adorned the longest wall. formal to decorate somethingadorn something with something church walls adorned with religious paintings
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