Embellishment

(noun.) a superfluous ornament.

(noun.) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; 'the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings'.

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• Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort to smooth them off. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Tellson's (they said) wanted no elbow-room, Tellson's wanted no light, Tellson's wanted no embellishment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact--of absolute undeniable fact--from the embellishments of theorists and reporters. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• They gossiped together over the corpse, related anecdotes, with embellishments of her lingering decline, and its real or supposed cause. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Pray glance at some of these churches and their embellishments, and see whether the Government is doing a righteous thing or not. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Thus set forth, with the additional embellishments of a very little tail to his coat, and a yawning gulf at his waistband, Sloppy stood confessed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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