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noun ɡlɒs mass noun1Shine or lustre on a smooth surface. （表面的）光滑，光泽 hair with a healthy gloss 呈现健康光泽的头发。 Example sentencesExamples - It was solid oak, hard and formidable, shining gloss in the dimly lit kitchen.
- It is in the scalp that natural oils are manufactured and distributed throughout your hair to give it shine and gloss.
- In order to produce a higher sheen or gloss, we need to use a finer abrasive.
- The eel skins were used locally to ease stiffness in wrists and limbs and eel oil was used to make horse tackle supple and to impart a brilliant and unmistakable gloss to shoes!
- These natural phenomena lend some sheen and gloss to the lake, which otherwise looks sick and forlorn now.
- Translucency, fluorescence, gloss and/or surface texture data also may be obtained.
- The entire process takes about a week and is completed by giving the candied chestnuts a final coating of sugar syrup which dries to a smooth clear gloss.
- I hope it's better than the copywriter who worked on the label, which says ‘has your hair lost it's gloss?’
- She was sure it was real from the incredible sparkle and gloss of the gem.
- The gorgeous updated style has added volume and lift around the crown while utilizing high gloss shine products for a rocker chic glow.
- You look outside and see it - that shining, shimmering gloss of frost on the ground, on the car, and in the trees.
- Just for something to do, she had volunteered to help with the job of adding a touch of colour to drab shells and a coat of clear varnish to add a gloss to porous surfaces, and the packing.
- They were expecting the floor to have a smooth, grey finish, but it was high gloss, like a mirror.
- Alma, which can darken hair, can be used for gloss and colour, it says.
Synonyms shine, sheen, lustre, gleam, patina, shininess, glossiness, brightness, brilliance, shimmer, sparkle polish, burnish, glaze, varnish - 1.1 A type of paint which dries to a shiny surface.
有光涂料；亮光漆 the undercoat is applied, followed by two coats of gloss as modifier a gloss finish Example sentencesExamples - Coating with gloss polyurethane produces a nice finish after painting.
- Currently, the most popular options are pale wood, high gloss white paint and steel sink units.
- The product - available in gloss and satin finishes - comes in 1-liter tins and costs $49.95 per liter.
- Although these paints emit fumes of white spirits and are harder to dispose of than paints with a water-base, decorators continue to use them for wood and gloss finishes indoors.
- The finish, whether gloss or satin, is usually a personal preference.
- Even the grimy black pine has been painted over with white gloss and the walls are covered in teeny Yeats prints.
- It is finished in an almost mirror like gloss black finish.
- You might even play up the black wall by using super shiny gloss paint.
- She may like high gloss finishes but I'm doing this one by hand with linseed oil.
- I asked for gloss paint, he gave me satin finish.
- When selecting an oil based finish you will need to decide if you want a satin, gloss or semi gloss finish.
- The banisters were painted in white gloss and ingrained with dirt.
- A previous owner had painted the top in gloss paint, which cracked after only a few weeks, and made the roof look like crazy paving.
- I decided the top of the table needed to be evened out with a coat or two of gloss paint.
- To reflect an even greater amount of light into the room, consider painting the inside of the shaft with gloss or semi-gloss white paint.
- Paint plain wood frames in a color that complements your furniture and accessories, and spray with a clear acrylic gloss for a shiny finish.
- I do not want to paint it with gloss paint as it took ages to strip in the first place.
- Both are good choices and are available in matte, satin, semi-gloss and high gloss finishes.
- When painting using gloss paint, the paint tends to go on your hands and generally all over the place.
- A gloss finish prevents dirt from becoming embedded in paint.
- The bright colours were only available in gloss paint and gloss painted brickwork was quite a statement in itself.
2in singular A superficially attractive appearance or impression. 骗人的好看外表；假象 beneath the gloss of success was a tragic private life 在成功假象的背后是凄惨的个人生活。 Example sentencesExamples - In this day of spin and PR consultants, it can be hard to decipher what lies beneath the gloss.
- This film at least rips away the superficial gloss, and forces us to confront the utter savagery of the abuse heaped on Christ.
- Beneath the manufactured gloss of the event is a public transport infrastructure bursting at the seams.
- However, the legislation does still retain a superficial gloss to tempt the consumer/voter.
- Beneath the gloss however, under the trees leafy boughs lies something darker.
Synonyms facade, veneer, surface, front, show, camouflage, disguise, mask, semblance, smokescreen, outward appearance, false appearance window dressing, attractive appearance
verb ɡlɒs [with object]1Apply a glossy substance to. 涂有光涂料（或亮光漆）于 with object and complement the pebble-dash of the walls was glossed stickily white Example sentencesExamples - The girls exited the building their lips glossed and shining under the lighting of the building.
- She turned back to the front of the class, a small smile at the edges of her smooth, recently glossed lips.
- To all that's glossed or glazed, to any gold-dust miracle.
- Not too much makeup, hair down, lips glossed, nails polished, your red dress on.
- Her pink glossed lips were slightly parted, and soft curls framed her face.
- Their movements are predictable, their pickup lines, their reactions, the words that spill out of their perfectly glossed lips, all predictable and sad.
- He grinned properly, and I felt a smile on my own glossed lips.
- Couples were marked with dots of gloss enamel paint with the same color combination for each member of a pair, so we could tell if changes had occurred.
- He looked at the sleek Chopper, its chrome forks gleamed in the sun, the engine was immaculate, the paint work a deep maroon, glossed with layers of lacquer and hours of polishing.
- I shoved a comb into my bag and quickly glossed my lips.
- She is also wearing black eyeliner and purple eye shadow and purple tinted glossed lips.
- Her lip glossed lips were set to a nasty frown and her eyes were screaming murder.
- She went natural on the makeup, too, applying just a hint of silvery-lilac shadow to her eyes and glossing up her lips with a frosty pink.
- Finish the look by glossing your lips in sparkly pink.
- My hair was down along my back and my lips were glossed.
- I glossed my lips without color, left my hair sleeked in the ponytail, wore a long beige skirt with a matching sweater and finished with flat, unattractive, brown loafers.
- His nails had been glossed with enamel.
- I use it on my lips, gloss it on my eyebrows, rub it into dry skin, use as hand and foot cream and, on long flights, lavish it under my eyes.
- A little Vaseline would afterward be glossed onto Mum's lips (so as to avoid chapping ‘not for showing off’).
- She looked over at me and a small smile played on her freshly glossed lips.
- She smoked my eyes with black eyeliner and some glittery black eye shadow, highlighted my checks with a soft natural glow, and glossed my lips with chap stick.
- She whispered, and leaned forward, planting her heavily glossed lips on his.
- Heather was back, her glossed lips shining like 100-watts in the dim light.
- Lips, she added, should be glossed or bordered by lip liner that closely matches the chosen lip colour.
- Claire pursed her perfectly glossed lips and considered me a moment.
- So I sat down as she powdered my face and dusted eyeshadow and blush and glossed my lips and lined my eyes and curled and coated my eyelashes with mascara.
- The girl looked away, her pink glossed lips trembling at my sudden understanding.
- Casey and her cronies all let their perfect lip glossed lips fall.
- She only glossed her lips - you couldn't overdo it, even if it was stage makeup.
- I mean, chapped glossed lips wasn't very attractive.
Synonyms make glossy, shine, give a shine to glaze, polish, burnish 2gloss overTry to conceal or disguise (something unfavourable) by treating it briefly or representing it misleadingly. 掩盖（或粉饰） the social costs of this growth are glossed over 为这种增长所付出的社会代价被掩盖起来了。 Example sentencesExamples - It's a tactful way of glossing over really important things.
- Supporting this is anecdotal evidence that this is a responsible decision while glossing over the very real possibility of harm and danger to the student.
- Rather, they were glossed over and covered up, much as one might conceal a defect in the wall with wallpaper.
- I'm very deliberately glossing over the surface so I can function.
- The only way we can reattain innocence is by glossing over our pasts, forgetting, and we're not always so good at that.
- And by glossing over this fact the credibility of the survey gets severely dented.
- Should we gloss over them as proof of the power of suggestion to treat psychosomatic illness?
- All of these fertile sources rear their heads in this film, and all are briefly glossed over or flat out ignored.
- Without glossing over this important section, the production passes through these scenes quickly and finishes in style with the family walking up the steps to freedom beyond the mountains.
- They accused the Party of concealing the facts, fabricating evidence and glossing over the matter to evade responsibility.
- I briefly glossed over it in standard grade maths, but only just.
- Yet I wonder about the implications of looking away, of glossing over uncomfortable situations.
- When speakers weren't busy glossing over his faults they were just misinterpreting history.
- This strikes me as not exactly a cop out, but rather a glossing over what, to me, is so simple.
- The arrangements of classical pieces (which they did themselves) highlight their brilliant playing and technique, rather than glossing over it.
- The expectation is that we ought to praise the university for its successes, while glossing over its failures.
- What critics here and abroad are glossing over, however, is that as a political marketing device, his address was absolutely brilliant.
- The staff spent their time glossing over such problems in paperwork.
- But though Einhard declared he would record nothing through hearsay, he also glossed over facts unfavourable to his hero.
- Therefore, it is not surprising that the article misleads, and glosses over some important points about the safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation.
Synonyms conceal, cover up, hide, camouflage, disguise, mask, veil, draw a veil over, whitewash explain away evade, avoid, shrug off, brush aside, play down, downplay, minimize, understate, make light of, soft-pedal, de-emphasize informal brush something under the carpet rare gloze over
Derivativesnoun Purchase a clear glosser at your local drug store or create a home vinegar rinse. Example sentencesExamples - The one thing that's constant is the fact that, in our analyses, both the hypothetical insulters and our actual glossers are using the word.
- A cheaper but just as cheerful range is also available, where lip glossers in cherry, blackberry, green apple and nectarine are just £3.
OriginMid 16th century: of unknown origin. Rhymesacross, boss, Bros, cos, cross, crosse, doss, dross, emboss, en brosse, floss, fosse, Goss, joss, Kos, lacrosse, loss, moss, MS-DOS, Ross noun ɡlɒs 1A translation or explanation of a word or phrase. （对词或短语的）翻译；解释 Example sentencesExamples - In addition to annotations already cited, the word ‘caso’ appears in an italic hand as a gloss for the Spanish edition's ‘ceso’ in the right-hand margin.
- Third, he has taken this revision as an opportunity to provide real definitions, not simply glosses (translational equivalents) for the Greek words.
- And some of these people write glosses for well-respected dictionaries.
- For the commonest form of ‘hack’, the OED gives the gloss and etymology.
- He glosses word-bomb, which he admits is a ‘clunky construction’, at arm's length.
- If you wonder about ‘furphy’, as I did, here's a gloss and explanation.
- In Francia legal manuscripts acquired Germanic glosses, but no full-scale translation.
- These are followed by his gloss, the modern form in phonetics, and in some cases comments.
- Like the Liber Commonei, this book too contains numerous vernacular glosses (mostly Old Welsh).
Synonyms explanation, interpretation, exegesis, explication, elucidation - 1.1 An explanation, interpretation, or paraphrase of a text.
解释；诠释；释义 the chapter acts as a helpful gloss on Pynchon's general method 这一章有助于诠释平钦的一般方法。 Example sentencesExamples - Such commentary and glosses have profound applications for contextualizing the archival documents presented in this series.
- The theological treatises were probably already known at the court of Charlemagne around 800, and a tradition of glosses to the text probably goes back to the later ninth century.
- Read in the context of Carpaccio's Hunting on the lagoon and the Two Venetian ladies, Parabosco's text seems to provide the perfect gloss to the material and psychological issues the painting presents.
- Add to the author's own notes the glosses and historicizing of the book's editor, and you have a book with nearly three times the length of commentary as of text.
- And all subordinate authorities, at whatever level, were expressly forbidden to alter, gloss, or interpret the law in any way.
- Today, programme notes range from brief glosses to detailed analyses of the music and the circumstances surrounding its composition.
- Not only are all statements susceptible to interpretation and qualification, but it is scarcely possible to understand any sophisticated statement without interpretation or gloss.
Synonyms explanation, interpretation, exegesis, explication, elucidation
verb ɡlɒs [with object]1Provide an explanation, interpretation, or paraphrase for (a text, word, etc.) 解释；诠释；释义 the Japanese word often glossed as ‘sincerity’ really means something different Example sentencesExamples - His zeal can be tiresome, but his writing is so good that you never feel like he's glossing the story.
- The article begins with an artist's rendering of the ‘smoke’ that billowed from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, with text that glossed the final days of the war.
- For myself, I think there are dangers in seeking to gloss the words of the Convention itself.
- This theme has to be glossed somewhat, because of the platform, but we can make the point that much criticism of our appointees has been misdirected.
- In these word lists, papalagi is glossed as ‘foreign cloth’.
- He glosses the term as ‘being a colloquial word for anger’.
- They use expressions which themselves are glossed, like ‘obvious to try’.
- We lost this case before the Court of Appeal because they conflated the two questions and glossed the plaintiff's evidence in an unacceptable way.
- But why then did he not simply gloss the word ‘necessity’ with ‘chronos’?
- Take all the Latin words in Shakespeare, for instance - in Victorian times, educated people had studied Latin in school - not so today, so they need to be carefully glossed.
- But the third argument could be glossed rather differently.
- Its complex interrelatedness means that each short work helps gloss the others.
- He abandons metaphor in order to gloss the Biblical texts that were foundational to Jewish and Christian marital law.
- And it has always been glossed by pop historians and ‘experts’ as a mere tribituary.
- Many of the partnership claims of this and other networks are glossed to satisfy the needs of program bureaucrats.
- Intriguingly, venustate is later glossed in that text with the same Old English term, ‘faegemesse,’ perhaps suggesting in this instance a collapse of distinction between sorts of beauty.
Synonyms explain, give an explanation of, interpret, explicate, elucidate annotate, add notes/footnotes to, add a commentary to, comment on translate, paraphrase, construe rare footnote, margin, marginalize - 1.1gloss on/uponarchaic no object Make comments, especially unfavourable ones, about (something)
〈古〉牵强附会地解释；曲解 those laws, which they assumed the liberty of interpreting and glossing upon 那些他们认为可以随便解释和评注的法律。 Example sentencesExamples - It's a shrewd attempt to further their cause of inciting hatred and horror by glossing on a Western façade of ‘contemporary culture’ - and exporting it abroad, as a filmmaker notes.
- In effect, and glossing on Nielsen's analysis, Durkheim could not escape the limitations of the tradition precisely because he remained true to its central questions and its foundational distinctions.
OriginMid 16th century: alteration of the noun gloze, from Old French glose (see gloze), suggested by medieval Latin glossa 'explanation of a difficult word', from Greek glōssa 'word needing explanation, language, tongue'. noun 1Shine or luster on a smooth surface. （表面的）光滑，光泽 hair with a healthy gloss 呈现健康光泽的头发。 Example sentencesExamples - Just for something to do, she had volunteered to help with the job of adding a touch of colour to drab shells and a coat of clear varnish to add a gloss to porous surfaces, and the packing.
- It is in the scalp that natural oils are manufactured and distributed throughout your hair to give it shine and gloss.
- It was solid oak, hard and formidable, shining gloss in the dimly lit kitchen.
- Alma, which can darken hair, can be used for gloss and colour, it says.
- Translucency, fluorescence, gloss and/or surface texture data also may be obtained.
- In order to produce a higher sheen or gloss, we need to use a finer abrasive.
- You look outside and see it - that shining, shimmering gloss of frost on the ground, on the car, and in the trees.
- The gorgeous updated style has added volume and lift around the crown while utilizing high gloss shine products for a rocker chic glow.
- I hope it's better than the copywriter who worked on the label, which says ‘has your hair lost it's gloss?’
- These natural phenomena lend some sheen and gloss to the lake, which otherwise looks sick and forlorn now.
- She was sure it was real from the incredible sparkle and gloss of the gem.
- They were expecting the floor to have a smooth, grey finish, but it was high gloss, like a mirror.
- The eel skins were used locally to ease stiffness in wrists and limbs and eel oil was used to make horse tackle supple and to impart a brilliant and unmistakable gloss to shoes!
- The entire process takes about a week and is completed by giving the candied chestnuts a final coating of sugar syrup which dries to a smooth clear gloss.
Synonyms shine, sheen, lustre, gleam, patina, shininess, glossiness, brightness, brilliance, shimmer, sparkle - 1.1 A type of paint that dries to a bright shiny surface.
有光涂料；亮光漆 Example sentencesExamples - She may like high gloss finishes but I'm doing this one by hand with linseed oil.
- Paint plain wood frames in a color that complements your furniture and accessories, and spray with a clear acrylic gloss for a shiny finish.
- The banisters were painted in white gloss and ingrained with dirt.
- When selecting an oil based finish you will need to decide if you want a satin, gloss or semi gloss finish.
- It is finished in an almost mirror like gloss black finish.
- To reflect an even greater amount of light into the room, consider painting the inside of the shaft with gloss or semi-gloss white paint.
- I asked for gloss paint, he gave me satin finish.
- Although these paints emit fumes of white spirits and are harder to dispose of than paints with a water-base, decorators continue to use them for wood and gloss finishes indoors.
- You might even play up the black wall by using super shiny gloss paint.
- The finish, whether gloss or satin, is usually a personal preference.
- A gloss finish prevents dirt from becoming embedded in paint.
- Both are good choices and are available in matte, satin, semi-gloss and high gloss finishes.
- I decided the top of the table needed to be evened out with a coat or two of gloss paint.
- A previous owner had painted the top in gloss paint, which cracked after only a few weeks, and made the roof look like crazy paving.
- When painting using gloss paint, the paint tends to go on your hands and generally all over the place.
- The product - available in gloss and satin finishes - comes in 1-liter tins and costs $49.95 per liter.
- The bright colours were only available in gloss paint and gloss painted brickwork was quite a statement in itself.
- Coating with gloss polyurethane produces a nice finish after painting.
- Currently, the most popular options are pale wood, high gloss white paint and steel sink units.
- I do not want to paint it with gloss paint as it took ages to strip in the first place.
- Even the grimy black pine has been painted over with white gloss and the walls are covered in teeny Yeats prints.
2in singular A superficially attractive appearance or impression. 骗人的好看外表；假象 beneath the gloss of success was a tragic private life 在成功假象的背后是凄惨的个人生活。 Example sentencesExamples - However, the legislation does still retain a superficial gloss to tempt the consumer/voter.
- Beneath the manufactured gloss of the event is a public transport infrastructure bursting at the seams.
- This film at least rips away the superficial gloss, and forces us to confront the utter savagery of the abuse heaped on Christ.
- Beneath the gloss however, under the trees leafy boughs lies something darker.
- In this day of spin and PR consultants, it can be hard to decipher what lies beneath the gloss.
Synonyms facade, veneer, surface, front, show, camouflage, disguise, mask, semblance, smokescreen, outward appearance, false appearance
verb [with object]1Apply a cosmetic gloss to. 把美容膏涂于 Example sentencesExamples - Couples were marked with dots of gloss enamel paint with the same color combination for each member of a pair, so we could tell if changes had occurred.
- Lips, she added, should be glossed or bordered by lip liner that closely matches the chosen lip colour.
- The girls exited the building their lips glossed and shining under the lighting of the building.
- His nails had been glossed with enamel.
- A little Vaseline would afterward be glossed onto Mum's lips (so as to avoid chapping ‘not for showing off’).
- Her pink glossed lips were slightly parted, and soft curls framed her face.
- Finish the look by glossing your lips in sparkly pink.
- Their movements are predictable, their pickup lines, their reactions, the words that spill out of their perfectly glossed lips, all predictable and sad.
- She turned back to the front of the class, a small smile at the edges of her smooth, recently glossed lips.
- She looked over at me and a small smile played on her freshly glossed lips.
- To all that's glossed or glazed, to any gold-dust miracle.
- She went natural on the makeup, too, applying just a hint of silvery-lilac shadow to her eyes and glossing up her lips with a frosty pink.
- My hair was down along my back and my lips were glossed.
- I shoved a comb into my bag and quickly glossed my lips.
- I use it on my lips, gloss it on my eyebrows, rub it into dry skin, use as hand and foot cream and, on long flights, lavish it under my eyes.
- Not too much makeup, hair down, lips glossed, nails polished, your red dress on.
- Heather was back, her glossed lips shining like 100-watts in the dim light.
- So I sat down as she powdered my face and dusted eyeshadow and blush and glossed my lips and lined my eyes and curled and coated my eyelashes with mascara.
- Casey and her cronies all let their perfect lip glossed lips fall.
- The girl looked away, her pink glossed lips trembling at my sudden understanding.
- Her lip glossed lips were set to a nasty frown and her eyes were screaming murder.
- I mean, chapped glossed lips wasn't very attractive.
- She only glossed her lips - you couldn't overdo it, even if it was stage makeup.
- She is also wearing black eyeliner and purple eye shadow and purple tinted glossed lips.
- She whispered, and leaned forward, planting her heavily glossed lips on his.
- She smoked my eyes with black eyeliner and some glittery black eye shadow, highlighted my checks with a soft natural glow, and glossed my lips with chap stick.
- He grinned properly, and I felt a smile on my own glossed lips.
- Claire pursed her perfectly glossed lips and considered me a moment.
- I glossed my lips without color, left my hair sleeked in the ponytail, wore a long beige skirt with a matching sweater and finished with flat, unattractive, brown loafers.
- He looked at the sleek Chopper, its chrome forks gleamed in the sun, the engine was immaculate, the paint work a deep maroon, glossed with layers of lacquer and hours of polishing.
Synonyms make glossy, shine, give a shine to - 1.1 Apply gloss paint to.
涂有光涂料（或亮光漆）于
2gloss overTry to conceal or disguise (something embarrassing or unfavorable) by treating it briefly or representing it misleadingly. 掩盖（或粉饰） the social costs of this growth are glossed over 为这种增长所付出的社会代价被掩盖起来了。 Example sentencesExamples - Rather, they were glossed over and covered up, much as one might conceal a defect in the wall with wallpaper.
- What critics here and abroad are glossing over, however, is that as a political marketing device, his address was absolutely brilliant.
- The expectation is that we ought to praise the university for its successes, while glossing over its failures.
- Therefore, it is not surprising that the article misleads, and glosses over some important points about the safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation.
- They accused the Party of concealing the facts, fabricating evidence and glossing over the matter to evade responsibility.
- I briefly glossed over it in standard grade maths, but only just.
- All of these fertile sources rear their heads in this film, and all are briefly glossed over or flat out ignored.
- And by glossing over this fact the credibility of the survey gets severely dented.
- The staff spent their time glossing over such problems in paperwork.
- This strikes me as not exactly a cop out, but rather a glossing over what, to me, is so simple.
- Yet I wonder about the implications of looking away, of glossing over uncomfortable situations.
- I'm very deliberately glossing over the surface so I can function.
- But though Einhard declared he would record nothing through hearsay, he also glossed over facts unfavourable to his hero.
- It's a tactful way of glossing over really important things.
- Without glossing over this important section, the production passes through these scenes quickly and finishes in style with the family walking up the steps to freedom beyond the mountains.
- When speakers weren't busy glossing over his faults they were just misinterpreting history.
- Should we gloss over them as proof of the power of suggestion to treat psychosomatic illness?
- The only way we can reattain innocence is by glossing over our pasts, forgetting, and we're not always so good at that.
- Supporting this is anecdotal evidence that this is a responsible decision while glossing over the very real possibility of harm and danger to the student.
- The arrangements of classical pieces (which they did themselves) highlight their brilliant playing and technique, rather than glossing over it.
Synonyms conceal, cover up, hide, camouflage, disguise, mask, veil, draw a veil over, whitewash
OriginMid 16th century: of unknown origin. noun 1A translation or explanation of a word or phrase. （对词或短语的）翻译；解释 Example sentencesExamples - These are followed by his gloss, the modern form in phonetics, and in some cases comments.
- He glosses word-bomb, which he admits is a ‘clunky construction’, at arm's length.
- Third, he has taken this revision as an opportunity to provide real definitions, not simply glosses (translational equivalents) for the Greek words.
- If you wonder about ‘furphy’, as I did, here's a gloss and explanation.
- For the commonest form of ‘hack’, the OED gives the gloss and etymology.
- And some of these people write glosses for well-respected dictionaries.
- Like the Liber Commonei, this book too contains numerous vernacular glosses (mostly Old Welsh).
- In addition to annotations already cited, the word ‘caso’ appears in an italic hand as a gloss for the Spanish edition's ‘ceso’ in the right-hand margin.
- In Francia legal manuscripts acquired Germanic glosses, but no full-scale translation.
Synonyms explanation, interpretation, exegesis, explication, elucidation - 1.1 An explanation, interpretation, or paraphrase.
解释；诠释；释义 the chapter acts as a helpful gloss on Pynchon's general method 这一章有助于诠释平钦的一般方法。 Example sentencesExamples - Not only are all statements susceptible to interpretation and qualification, but it is scarcely possible to understand any sophisticated statement without interpretation or gloss.
- Today, programme notes range from brief glosses to detailed analyses of the music and the circumstances surrounding its composition.
- Read in the context of Carpaccio's Hunting on the lagoon and the Two Venetian ladies, Parabosco's text seems to provide the perfect gloss to the material and psychological issues the painting presents.
- Such commentary and glosses have profound applications for contextualizing the archival documents presented in this series.
- The theological treatises were probably already known at the court of Charlemagne around 800, and a tradition of glosses to the text probably goes back to the later ninth century.
- And all subordinate authorities, at whatever level, were expressly forbidden to alter, gloss, or interpret the law in any way.
- Add to the author's own notes the glosses and historicizing of the book's editor, and you have a book with nearly three times the length of commentary as of text.
Synonyms explanation, interpretation, exegesis, explication, elucidation
verb [with object]usually be glossed1Provide an explanation, interpretation, or paraphrase for (a text, word, etc.). 解释；诠释；释义 Example sentencesExamples - Its complex interrelatedness means that each short work helps gloss the others.
- And it has always been glossed by pop historians and ‘experts’ as a mere tribituary.
- He glosses the term as ‘being a colloquial word for anger’.
- Intriguingly, venustate is later glossed in that text with the same Old English term, ‘faegemesse,’ perhaps suggesting in this instance a collapse of distinction between sorts of beauty.
- But the third argument could be glossed rather differently.
- In these word lists, papalagi is glossed as ‘foreign cloth’.
- His zeal can be tiresome, but his writing is so good that you never feel like he's glossing the story.
- Take all the Latin words in Shakespeare, for instance - in Victorian times, educated people had studied Latin in school - not so today, so they need to be carefully glossed.
- This theme has to be glossed somewhat, because of the platform, but we can make the point that much criticism of our appointees has been misdirected.
- For myself, I think there are dangers in seeking to gloss the words of the Convention itself.
- But why then did he not simply gloss the word ‘necessity’ with ‘chronos’?
- We lost this case before the Court of Appeal because they conflated the two questions and glossed the plaintiff's evidence in an unacceptable way.
- He abandons metaphor in order to gloss the Biblical texts that were foundational to Jewish and Christian marital law.
- The article begins with an artist's rendering of the ‘smoke’ that billowed from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, with text that glossed the final days of the war.
- Many of the partnership claims of this and other networks are glossed to satisfy the needs of program bureaucrats.
- They use expressions which themselves are glossed, like ‘obvious to try’.
Synonyms explain, give an explanation of, interpret, explicate, elucidate - 1.1gloss on/uponarchaic no object Write or make comments, especially unfavorable ones, about (something)
〈古〉牵强附会地解释；曲解 those laws, which they assumed the liberty of interpreting and glossing upon 那些他们认为可以随便解释和评注的法律。 Example sentencesExamples - In effect, and glossing on Nielsen's analysis, Durkheim could not escape the limitations of the tradition precisely because he remained true to its central questions and its foundational distinctions.
- It's a shrewd attempt to further their cause of inciting hatred and horror by glossing on a Western façade of ‘contemporary culture’ - and exporting it abroad, as a filmmaker notes.
OriginMid 16th century: alteration of the noun gloze, from Old French glose (see gloze), suggested by medieval Latin glossa ‘explanation of a difficult word’, from Greek glōssa ‘word needing explanation, language, tongue’. |