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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

修饰 [xiūshì]
  1. 1. verb [修整装饰] decorate
  2. 2. verb [修改润饰] polish

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

修饰 [xiūshì]
  1. 1. decorate; adorn; embellish
    修饰公园,准备迎接五一。
    The parks are decorated for the May Day celebrations.
  2. 2. make up and dress up
  3. 3. polish (a piece of writing)
    请你把这篇稿子修饰一下。
    Please polish this piece of writing.
  4. 4. [Linguistics] qualify; modify
    定语的作用是修饰或限制名词的。
    An attribute is a word or phrase used to modify or limit the meaning of a noun.
  5. 5. noun touch

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

修饰 [xiūshì]
  1. 1. 修整装饰
    修饰门面。
  2. 2. 梳妆打扮
    稍加修饰,容貌更显美好。
  3. 3. 对语言文字进行修改、润色
    修饰文辞。

Examples

刻意修饰
be very meticulous about clothes or makeup
请你把这篇稿子修饰一下。
Please polish this piece of writing.
修饰
decorate; adorn; embellish
华丽的言语修饰不了他枯涩的感情。
他不喜欢修饰外表,但却是个很有内蕴的人。
He dislikes wearing make up, but he is a man of implication.
他的文章写得太平直,没有一点修饰
His article is too simple, it doesn't have any embellishments.
修饰

Collocations

修饰一新
to be entirely embellished
修饰门面
to decorate the front of a shop
打扮修饰
to dress up (and apply make up)
特意修饰
to decorate (something) for a particular purpose
修饰面容
make up
略加修饰
to polish the language (of a document)
修饰一下
to polish
修饰
a modifier
加工修饰
to improve and polish
文字修饰
to polish (the words of a document)

Word Decomposition


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