Elaborate

(verb.) work out in detail; 'elaborate a plan'.

(verb.) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; 'She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation'.

(verb.) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; 'The bee elaborates honey'.

(adj.) marked by complexity and richness of detail; 'an elaborate lace pattern' .

校对:谢尔曼

• We have elaborate governmental mechanisms--like the tariff, for example, which we go on making more scientific year in, year out--having long since lost sight of their human purpose. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Maurice took the hint, and addressed himself to the Count with an air of elaborate politeness. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• We have seen, in these old churches, a profusion of costly and elaborate sepulchre ornamentation such as we never dreampt of before. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A great industry of beautiful and elaborate fabrics and furnishings developed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No age has produced such a multitude of elaborate studies, and any selection was, of course, a limiting one. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The aroused public opinion which the Commission asks for cannot be held if all it has to fix upon is an elaborate series of taboos. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• On Sundays, she went to church elaborated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Farmer in 1852, had been elaborated by many ingenious inventors, notably in this country by Stearns, before Edison once again applied his mind to it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Edison elaborated this principle in two other forms--one pneumatic and one electric--the latter being in essence a reciprocating motor. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Her discretions interested him almost as much as her imprudences: he was so sure that both were part of the same carefully-elaborated plan. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Though Wildeve's fevered feeling had not been elaborated to real poetical compass, it was of the standard sort. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It was an elaborated form of the type covered by my patent No. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This form was elaborated and jeweled, and finally arched in with jeweled bands surmounted by the cross and scepter. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It is enough to note that literature in particular elaborates our insight into human life, and, therefore, enables us to center our institutions more truly. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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