添油加酱 meaning in English
add colour and emphasis to ...; add inflammatory details to (a story etc.); garble a story by adding details (to inflame the hearer's mind); relate ... with great [much] unction; with much emphasis and many flowery phrases
Examples
- He paints a very black picture of werner which may well be distorted .
他把韦尔纳描摹得十分可怕，很可能是有点添油加酱。 - He paints a very black picture of werner, which may well be distorted .
他把韦尔纳描摹得十分可怕，很可能是有点添油加酱。 - With such kind of histories of their parties and good jokes did lydia , assisted by kitty s hints and additions , endeavour to amuse her companions all the way to longbourn
丽迪雅就这样说说舞会上的故事，讲讲笑话，另外还有吉蒂从旁给她添油加酱，使得大家一路上很开心。