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N-SING
光澤；色澤；光亮
A gloss is a bright shine on the surface of something.
例句
Rain produced a black gloss on the asphalt.
雨后的柏油路面顯得黑亮黑亮的。
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N-UNCOUNT
虛假的外表；假象；虛飾
Gloss is an appearance of attractiveness or good quality which sometimes hides less attractive features or poor quality.
例句
Television commercials might seem more professional but beware of mistaking the gloss for the content.
電視廣告看上去或許更加專業，但要當心，不要把表象誤以為真。
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N-SING
粉飾；掩飾
If you put a gloss on a bad situation, you try to make it seem more attractive or acceptable by giving people a false explanation or interpretation of it.
例句
He used his diary to put a fine gloss on the horrors the regime perpetrated...
他假借日記對該政權犯下的恐怖罪行巧加粉飾。
The whole idea was to give history a happy gloss.
整個想法就是要粉飾歷史。
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N-MASS
同gloss paint
Gloss is the same as gloss paint .
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N-MASS
唇彩；亮彩化妝品
Gloss is a type of shiny make-up.
例句
She brushed gloss on to her eyelids.
她在眼瞼上涂了些亮彩眼影。
...lip glosses.
唇彩
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VERB
解釋；詮釋；說明
If you gloss a difficult word or idea, you provide an explanation of it.
例句
Older editors glossed 'drynke' as 'love-potion'.
老編輯將drynke注釋為love-potion（春藥）。