Gilded

(adj.) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; 'the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility'; 'meretricious praise'; 'a meretricious argument' .

朱厄尔录入

• Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• To midnight revelry, and the panting emulation of beauty, to costly dress and birth-day shew, to title and the gilded coronet, farewell! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But prominent in it was a draped table with a gilded looking-glass, and that I made out at first sight to be a fine lady's dressing-table. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And dropping a small, gilded bottle at the witch's feet, the spirit vanished. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The next moment I sat in a cold, glittering salon, with porcelain stove, unlit, and gilded ornaments, and polished floor. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• We greedily eat and drink poison out of the gilded cup of vice or from the beggar's wallet of avarice. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A gilded mirror filled up the space between two windows, curtained amply with blue damask. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It was an old solemn churchits pervading gloom not gilded but purpled by light shed through stained glass. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Then in 1838, Spencer applied these principles in making casts, and Jacobi in Russia shortly after electro-gilded a dome of a cathedral in St. Petersburg. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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