veneer
veneer 英 [vəˈnɪə(r)] 美 [vəˈnɪr]
n. 外表；虚饰；饰面；胶合板的一层；薄木片 vt. 胶合；虚饰；给…镶以饰片
进行时:veneering 过去式:veneered 过去分词:veneered 第三人称单数:veneers 名词复数:veneers
- You know how some furniture looks like solid oak or maple until it gets chipped and reveals itself to be nothing more than some cheap particle-board covered with a thin layer of fancy wood? That thin layer is called a veneer.
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- n. 外表；虚饰；饰面；胶合板的一层；薄木片
- vt. 胶合；虚饰；给…镶以饰片
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1. Money stripped off the veneer of good manners.
金钱令他撕去了彬彬有礼的外表。
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2. Beneath his tissue-thin veneer of good manners,he was a very vulgar man.
剥去他那彬彬有礼的薄层外表，他其实是个很庸俗的人。
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3. CIOs like them since it gives a veneer of financial rigor to all the boxes and wires in the data center.
CIO喜欢它们，因为它们给数据中心所有盒子和线缆都牢牢地贴上了一张财务的外表；
- veneer (n.) 1702, from German Furnier, from furnieren "to cover with a veneer, inlay," from French fournir "to furnish, accomplish," from Middle French fornir "to furnish," from a Germanic source (compare Old High German frumjan "to provide;" see furnish). From German to French to German to English. Figurative sense of "mere outward show of some good quality" is attested from 1868.
- veneer (v.) 1728 (earlier fineer, 1708), from German furnieren (see veneer (n.)). Related: Veneered; veneering.
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