tinsel

noun

1. （尤指圣诞节时装饰用的）光片，金属箔，金属丝
   strips of shiny material like metal, used as decorations, especially at Christmas

1. (圣诞节装饰用的)光片，闪光线
   Tinsel consists of small strips of shiny paper attached to long pieces of thread. People use tinsel as a decoration at Christmas.

1. And the tinsel and the holly were decorating the drug store.
   杂货店又被装饰满了冬青树和闪闪的金片。
2. There are corridors lined with nothing but tinsel, streets throbbing with competing LED light shows, stockings of every size, plastic Christmas trees in blue and yellow and fluorescent pink, plastic pine cones in gold and silver.
   有些走廊专门展示金属箔，除此之外什么都没有，还有些走廊里就像有比赛一样的LED灯光展，还有各种尺码的袜子、蓝的黄的荧光粉的塑料圣诞树、金色银色的塑料松果。
3. The capacity of the economy to produce goods and services would be undiminished, and after a period of adjustment, during which tinsel factories would be retooled and Christmas tree plantations replanted, all would be well.
   经济生产商品和服务的能力将不会减弱，在经过一段时期的调整以后届时金属箔片工厂将会更换设备，圣诞树种植园将种植其他树木一切都会恢复正常。
4. YOUR window half-opened and veil half-raised you stand there waiting for the bangle-seller to come with his tinsel.
   你站在半开的窗牖前，面纱微微撩起，等待着货郎来卖手镯脚铃。
5. There stood a Christmas tree hung with hundreds of candles, glittering with tinsel and coloured balls.
   那儿有一个圣诞树上挂着几百支蜡烛，闪烁着金属丝和黑色球。
6. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room.
   我确信你拥有无价之宝，你也是我最好的朋友，但我却无心将满屋的俗物一扫而空。
7. Made of or decorated with tinsel. The stone pillar has a decorating spiral stripe.
   这根石柱有一条螺线的装饰条纹。
8. Glittering with gold or tinsel. Appeatance: Shine with grey or dark grey metallic lustre.
   闪闪发亮的发出金光或金属光泽的外观：表面呈灰色或暗灰色金属光泽。
9. Ireland-Throughout December trees are purchased and decorated with brightly colored lights, tinsel and baubles.
   爱尔兰&整个十二月都有树买，且用闪光的彩灯、金纸和小饰物点缀其上。
10. Besides the holly and ivy, pine or spruce trees are set up in people's houses and decorated with tinsel, electric lights, and baubles;
    除了冬青树和常青藤外，松树和云杉也会被人们放置在房子里，在上面装饰上金属条、电灯泡、小玩意等；
11. The room was lavishly decorated with tinsel and holly.
    房间用了大量的金属箔和冬青枝装饰，十分奢华。
12. Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show.
    圣诞节不在于金属丝和灯光的装饰，不在于外在的布置。
13. I walked in and there was a mountain bike sitting there for me with a little bit of tinsel on the handlebars!
    我走了进去，看到一辆山地车，一些圣诞装饰品缠绕在车把上！
14. A tree covered with tinsel and gaudy paper chains graced one corner.
    一棵覆盖着金属丝和纸链的树让角落增光。
15. Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel;
    款步出屋为的是赏月，看到月明如镜，几曾想的到旅人在路途中伴月而行的快乐。
16. Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers but there must be no mention of the Man whose birthday is being celebrated.
    在教室里，可以用圣诞树、锡箔装饰和驯鹿来庆祝圣诞节，却绝对不能提及那个出生日被纪念的人。
17. Primping the room for Christmas was like using wrapping paper for a tourniquet or sewing up a wound with tinsel.
    为圣诞打扮房间就像给压血带裹上纸或用金属丝缝合伤口。
18. Velvet jackets, the stuff of end-of-year-dinners and festive get-togethers, festoon the rails even before the inevitable racks of tinsel, cards and wrapping paper have appeared in stores.
    这也不怪你，通常岁末年终赴宴以及节庆欢聚时才穿的天鹅绒夹克已经琳琅满目地摆满了货架，甚至比亮箔、卡片和包装纸年复一年的上架时间还要早。
19. She wore a dress trimmed with tinsel.
    她穿着饰有亮片的连衣裙。
20. Her dress was fully covered with tinsel, which glittered to all directions.
    她的礼服上缀满了亮片，真是光芒四射啊。
21. Around four of the pillars, stalls of merchants, all sparkling with glass and tinsel;
    头四根大柱的周围有几家店铺，闪烁着玻璃片和金属箔片的亮光；
22. Tinsel has even been put up inside commercial aircraft that fly from mainly Buddhist Colombo to predominantly Hindu Jaffna.
    从佛教城市科伦坡飞往印度教圣地贾夫纳（斯里兰卡北部港口）的飞机里，也挂了一些金箔和银箔的圣诞装饰品。
23. A Christmas tree decorated with tinsel.
    一棵饰有金银箔的圣诞树。
24. And you turn it into tinsel.
    而你将一切变得华而不实。
25. Kate: A tree full of empty beer cans is not my idea of Christmas. Now hold this tinsel. You're staying home.
    凯伊：一颗装饰满空啤酒罐的圣诞树不是我理想的圣诞节，现在，拿着这个金银箔，你要留在家里。
26. Decorate a Christmas tree with tinsel
    用光亮金属片装饰圣诞树
27. And retailers, nervous about the state of the economy, aren't waiting for Thanksgiving weekend to put up tinsel and Christmas trees.
    零售商十分担心经济状况，他们迫不及待地在感恩节周之前就将金属丝和圣诞树展示了出来。
28. We ran out of tinsel before we'd finished decorating the tree.
    我们还没把圣诞树完全装饰好，闪光金属丝已经用完了。
29. You will see the flashing strobes, colorful tinsel and swirling images projected onto the concrete walls.
    你可以看到不断变换闪烁的灯光，多彩的装饰和打旋的图像投影在墙体上。
30. Improvement of the Lifter for the Tinsel Embroidery Device in the Computer Embroidery Machine
    电脑绣花机金片绣装置中升降机构的改进

noun

1. a thread with glittering metal foil attached

2. a showy decoration that is basically valueless
   1. all the tinsel of self-promotion

verb

1. interweave with tinsel
   1. tinseled velvet

2. adorn with tinsel
   1. snow flakes tinseled the trees

3. impart a cheap brightness to
   1. his tinseled image of Hollywood