英语释义

1. to make more attractive, glamorous, or fancy
dress up a plain dessert with a rich chocolate sauce

2. to attire in best or formal clothes

3. to attire in clothes suited to a particular role

4. to present in the most attractive or impressive light
a fiasco dressed up as a triumph

5. to get dressed up

英汉例句

• It was middle class matrons, the sort who dressed up to go shopping, who missed the deference shown by traditional grocers.

  打扮得漂漂亮亮出去购物的中产阶级家庭的主妇们，怀念传统杂货店给予的尊重。

• He dressed up as Gobind Singh, the Sikhs「s most revered 17th century guru.

  他穿戴的象古鲁·戈宾德·辛格-17世纪锡克教最受尊敬的宗师。

• Dogs are brought into restaurants, fussed over in public, dressed up in ridiculous outfits and dyed to look like ferocious tigers.

  狗狗可以进入餐馆，在公共场合任意活动，穿着搞笑的外套，甚至被染成像兇猛的老虎。

• Why not go out to a 「swankier」 restaurant than usual (it doesn’t have to be much more expensive)， or just get dressed up in your party clothes for a special meal for two at home?

  去家平常高档一点的餐厅(也不需要贵很多)，或者在家吃饭的时候，偶尔穿上你去派对时候的礼服。

• The proofs, for what they are worth, were, as I have said, dressed up afterwards-they were not the instrument of discovery.

  那些证明，如我已说的，是为了表明那些思想是有价值的，而被装扮起来——它们不是发现的工具。

• 「It」s really a junk food dressed up to look prettier than it is,」 he said.

  「这真是打扮得较好看的一个垃圾食品」他说。

• This doesn「t mean they wear it every day, but they dressed up specifically for this photo shoot.

  这不意味着他们天天都穿着它们，她们专门精心打扮是为了这次的拍摄。

• I have dressed up properly for this meeting, which was supposed to be my yearly appraisal.

  为了这次会见，我做了适度的打扮，我以为是对我进行年度考核呢。

• After hitting a show, taking a picture where you dressed up in clothes from that era, we headed for a bite to eat.

  看了一场表演，穿着那个年代的衣服照了张相后，我们就去吃东西。

• In terms of us, we were dressed up in camouflage clothing and hats, standing orderly on the playground and waiting for our officers」 command.

  而我们身穿迷彩服，头顶军帽，整齐地排列在操场上，听候教官们的指令。

• I was about to keep driving by when I saw a man dressed up in an old buckskin jacket and a large worn out hat.

  我正打算一路开下去，这时见到路边有个人穿着件旧鹿皮夹克，头上戴着顶破帽子。

• Turns out she was dressed up to visit her child but sadly the locale of the visit was a graveyard.

  她穿成那样是去看望她的孩子，而遗憾的是她所要去的地方是墓地。

• POLITICIANS have always dressed up their failures to make them look like successes.

  政客们总是把它们的失败精心打扮，使它们看起来像是成功。

• She was dressed up as a lady of high society.

  她把自己打扮成一位贵妇人。

• You may feel too dressed up in this casual age, but when has a beautiful woman ever remarked how much she likes a man because he always dresses down?

  你可能会感觉在这个休閑的年代太盛装，但何时美丽女士谈论过她喜欢一个男人的程度是因为他总是穿着朴素呢？

• She was dressed up in a pink ballerina outfit and squirming around in front of her dad, trying to get him to watch her.

  她穿着粉色芭蕾裙在她爸爸面前蠕动着，想让他看看自己。

• I don「t think twice about getting dressed up to go shopping or to go out for dinner with friends.

  她说：「我总是喜欢穿着和服去购物或和朋友聚会。」

• Alice was dressed up to play Cinderella.

  艾丽斯扮演灰姑娘。

• To raise money for local charities, about 5, 000 people dressed up in red suits, white beards and black boots and ran for five kilometres (3.1 miles) through the streets.

  这项活动的主要目的是为慈善机构筹集资金。约5千名志愿者身穿红色圣诞老人服、戴着白色大胡子、脚穿黑色靴子沿着街道跑了5公里的路程。

• Why not go a little glam for this last, festive tasting – as if you needed an excuse to get dressed up at this time of year!

  为这个最后的品尝节打扮一下吧，就好像今年的这时候你需要个理由美美的打扮一番！

• A digital opening ceremony could even beat Beijing」s display of thousands of drummers, dancers and men dressed up as Confucius - a few hundred morris dancers will not suffice.

  而数字化的开幕式，甚至有望胜过北京数以千计的鼓手、舞者，以及穿戴儒服的男子——找几百名莫里斯舞者可不够。

• Today, I was all dressed up and waiting on my blind date to arrive.

  今天，我为我的相亲之约好好打扮了一番。

相似词

dress连衣裙；（特定种类的）衣服