gloss
名词
定义 gloss 名词
appearance
- UncountableSingular
A smooth, shiny appearance on the surface of an object.
The car has a beautiful gloss after being polished.
The table has a smooth gloss finish.
She loves the gloss on her jewelry.
- Uncountable
A type of paint that gives a smooth, shiny appearance to a surface.
He used gloss paint to decorate the wooden furniture.
She chose to paint the walls with gloss, giving them a cleaner look.
This gloss paint is available in many colors.
- Uncountable
A substance used to make lips, hair, or skin appear shiny.
She likes to apply lip gloss to her lips.
This hair wax adds a nice gloss to the hair.
This product gives the skin a healthy gloss.
explanation
- Countable
An explanation or interpretation of a word or phrase.
The glosses in this book help to understand the ancient text.
The article provides many helpful glosses at the bottom of the page.
He added a gloss next to the complex verse.
动词
定义 gloss 动词
explain
- Transitive
To provide an explanation or interpretation for a word or phrase.
He glossed the obscure parts of the poem.
The professor will carefully gloss this complex concept.
Every term in the paper has been carefully glossed.
成语
- take the gloss off something
To diminish the specialness or enjoyment of an event or occasion.
• The sudden argument really took the gloss off the holiday.
- put a gloss on something
To present something in a way that emphasizes its positive aspects and downplays the negative ones, often to one's own benefit.
• They tried to put a gloss on the controversial policy, emphasizing its potential benefits.
片语动词 gloss
- gloss over something
to disregard or cover up an issue, such as an embarrassing error, in order to minimize its importance and swiftly move on to another topic
• During the meeting, he tried to gloss over last season's sales mistakes to quickly move on to the plans for the next quarter.