But the 47-year-old manicurist isn't cutting, filing or polishing as many nails as she'd like to, either.

但是，这位四十七岁的指甲修饰师修剪、锉磨、上油的指甲数量却难遂其愿了。

The idea of one's soul, as opposed to one's body, ending up in heaven or hell is a subsequent embellishment.

人们认为，一个人的灵魂，不同于其躯体，它终会上天堂或是下地狱，则是在该思想（上帝可以重造肉体）之后才发展出来的一种修饰。

And another point she makes is that many people embellish their height, if asked.

她的另一个观点是很多人会修饰他们的身高，如果被问的话。

But that mood is grooming younger and younger girls to tolerate psychological violence in dating situations and in their own intimate bedroom musical play.

但这种心情正在修饰越来越轻的女孩忍受在约会场合和在她们的卧音乐剧的心理暴力。

But if you want to diversify your vocabulary and you do, then you can use these phrases to modify common percentages and to give you another way to talk about numbers.

但是如果你想使你的词汇多样化，而且你确实想这样，那么你可以使用这些短语来修饰常见的百分比，并为你提供另一种谈论数字的方法。

Colorado is the only place in the world with rose onyx in its capitol building.

科罗多州是世界上有红玛瑙修饰国会大厦的唯一的一个州。

STEP 2 Develop a daily routine for grooming your hair and stick to it. Allow adequate time, since rushing could cause you to skip styling techniques that result in good hair days.

养成修饰头发的日常习惯并坚持。留有充足的时间，因为太匆忙会让你没有打理发型的时间，导致发型不佳。

And the show's embroiderer, Michelle Carragher, included some tricky embellishments, featuring lions overcoming Stark wolves.

剧中的刺绣师米歇尔·卡加入了一些巧妙的修饰，比如狮子战胜了史塔克家族的狼。

When we condone airbrushed faces and photoshopped bodies what are we saying about ourselves?

当我们容忍那些被电脑修饰过的脸庞和身材时我们是如何形容自己?

Remember, that articles are used with English nouns.

记住，冠词是被用于修饰英语名词的。

It is hard to imagine yourself as Lear, even one as denuded as Sir Kenneth's.

我们很难想象自己是李尔王，即使是像肯尼思爵士饰演的不加修饰的李尔王。

The adverb loudly modifies the past tense verb, sang.

副词“loudly”修饰动词的过去式“sang”。

Infinitives like TO TALK or TO SAY often modify nouns that don't have clear meanings.

TO TALK 或 TO SAY 之类的不定式经常修饰没有明确含义的名词。

The idea sounds yet more curious, but parents too can be adept at polishing their reputations and will insist that they are kind — while simultaneously expending enormous hostility on their thoroughly confused child.

这个想法听上去会令人疑惑，但父母的确会善于修饰自己的名誉，坚持他们是善良的，同时又对他们幼无知的孩子施以巨大的敌意。

Here's a use of principle as a modifier.

这里有一个原则作为修饰语的用法。

But insects and crustaceans build exoskeletons made from chains of modified sugars called chitin.

但是昆虫和甲壳类动物的外骨骼是由被称为甲壳素的修饰糖链制成的。

They synthesized the material from cages of tin and sulfur atoms decorated with hydrocarbon molecules.

他们用烃分子修饰的锡和硫原子合成了这一材料。

These changes can happen during a lifetime, and may even be passed to offspring — but so far researchers are conflicted over whether epigenetic modifications can really persist over many generations and lead to lasting changes in populations.

遗传适应的变化是终生的，甚至可能传给后代。但到目前为止，研究者仍在争论表观遗传修饰造成的变化是否可以传给多代后代，对族群造成长久的影响。

Here the adverb is describing a verb.

在这里副词修饰的是动词。

These are like different kinds of modifiers — adjectives, adverbs, adverbial phrases, and so on.

这些就像不同种类的修饰语——形容词、副词、状语短语等等。