elaboration

英 [ɪˌlæbə'reɪʃn] 美 [ɪˌlæbə'reɪʃn]

• n. 详细阐述；精心制作；精致；周密；【报】精编

英英释义

Noun:

1. addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail;

   "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"
   "an elaboration of the sketch followed"
   

2. the result of improving something;

   "he described a refinement of this technique"
   

3. a discussion that provides additional information

4. marked by elaborately complex detail

5. developing in intricate and painstaking detail

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The decoration has reached an extravagant degree of elaboration.
   那装潢已精致到了奢华的地步。
2. This crop circle is an elaboration on the basic pentagram shape with moon shapes protruding from each point of the star.
   这个麦田怪圈里有个精致的五角星，每个角上有个突出的月亮。

经典引文

• 'You know Master Charlie well, do you?'..Audley waited for elaboration, but none came.

  出自： A. Price

词汇搭配

• elaborate 详尽的
• elaboration product 加工产物,精心制作的...
• collateral elaboration 并行加工,并行阐述,...

近反义词

【近义词】

• decoration 装饰
• description 描述
• development 发展
• expansion 膨胀
• amplification 扩大
• embellishment 装饰
• explanation 解释
• refinement 精致
• working out 规划；制定
• elaborateness 尽心竭力
• intricacy 纷乱
• involution 卷入
• enlargement 扩大