tinsel

1 There are fringy tinsel capes and sleek science-fiction outfits that glitter in 50 shades of silver.

2 A cheerful shopwindow still hung with Christmas tinsel.

3 If an Asian hornet lands, volunteers attach tinsel streamers to its back to monitor its flight path and trace it back to its nest.

4 And when they open again we are in the rec room, standing before a tinsel tree, glowing and white.

5 “But, at the center: I am shaking; I am flashing like tinsel.”

6 A gleaming silver and blue tinsel heart hung suspended above the stage like a disco ball.

7 She had brought into the bathroom a small, oblong package wrapped in white paper and tied with gold tinsel.

8 Expect lots of snow but very little tinsel.

9 PLATNIK a strand of spider silk is, has a tinsel strength that's greater than steel of the same diameter.

布拉·尼克蜘蛛吐的每股丝都有金属般的韧性，比同样粗细的钢丝还坚韧。

10 Beyond the tinsel and the fairy dust, Bristol's Inbetween Time festival continues until Sunday.

11 Despite the hefty confections at its center, the Irish Repertory Theater’s “A Christmas Memory,” a musical version of the Truman Capote short story, is as slight as a popcorn strand, as wispy as tinsel.

12 She added that there’s a list of holiday decorations which should be kept out of reach from cats for safety reasons, including real candles, tinsel, metal ornament hooks, glass ornaments and exposed electric cords.

13 Britney Spears, for example, put up her Christmas tree, complete with gold tinsel and glass ball ornaments, two weeks ago.

14 So in 1999 she left the city for tinsel town with no connections.

15 Christmas is coming, with all its frippery and solemnity, its tinsel and hymns.

16 Kind of like the silver tinsel on the wall, which initially captivated the room’s feline occupants.

17 Which may be one reason why the artist has chosen to install a nine-metre Norwegian spruce without a single bauble, light, fairy or piece of tinsel.

18 At his 1850 coronation on the island, he wore the robes of “ancient Jewish high priests” and a crown made of paper and tinsel.

19 There were dozens of blinking colored lights hanging from the ceiling, video projections on walls, a curtain of tinsel.

20 The relentlessly dark dealings in the book keep catching glints of tinsel and foil: illusions of something better.

1 虚饰的

affected painted glossy showy ostentatious tinselly fastuous coloured vain gilded flamboyant

2 金光闪闪的

clinquant

3 虚饰

affected painted glossy showy ostentatious tinselly paint gloss varnish veneer pageant pretense frill pomp pretension puppetry affectation vainglory gilding frippery veneering frounce show doggy pretentious circumstance dash semblance ostentation prank fastuous coloured vain gilded flamboyant fallalery display parade pretence pageantry wangle peacockery gild

4 华而不实

gimcrack flash slick flashy gingerbread glittering glittery arty gaudy artsy glitzy specious brassy ritzy trumpery gewgaw tinselly tinhorn glitter overblown meretricious catchpenny magniloquent glare

5 华而不实的东西

gingerbread gimcrack gewgaw kickshaw

6 俗丽的

bowery

7 浮华

pomp glitz glitzy ostentatious chichi

8 俗丽的东西

gaud

9 用金属箔制成

tinselly

10 闪亮

vivid sparkling twinkling clinquant blink sparkle wink twinkle flare

11 虚有其表的

shoddy fantom

12 华而不实的

gimcrack flash slick flashy gingerbread glittering glittery arty gaudy artsy glitzy specious brassy ritzy trumpery gewgaw tinselly tinhorn

13 闪亮的

vivid sparkling twinkling clinquant

14 金属线

wire

15 虚有其表

shoddy fantom shadow

16 金属丝

wire wool tie yarn yarn beam