加油添醋 meaning in Chinese
exaggerate [give] embellishment to a story; add highly coloured details to a story; add inflammatory details to (a story)
Examples
- Although it had such an insignificant beginning, the rumour had grown and increased in detail and importance day by day .
尽管谣言的起因是如此不足为凭,但东传西传便渐渐加油添醋,增加了重要的内容。 - They gossiped together over the corpse, related anecdotes, with embellishments, of her lingering decline, and its real or supposed cause .
他们一起在尸体旁边聊天,加油添醋地谈她缠绵枕席时种种轶闻,以及生病的真正的或想象的原因。 - It ' s ok ! everyone < i > bends the truth < p > a little at job interviews
这没啥了不起!每个人在面试时多少会加油添醋一番。 - I asked him to tell the simple truth and not to embellish it with ideas of his own
我请他说出细节,不要以自己的想法加油添醋。 - You have been charged with falsehood ; defend yourself to me as well as you can . say whatever your memory suggests as true ; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing
你被指责为说谎,那你就在我面前尽力为自己辩护吧,凡是你记得的事实你都说,可别加油添醋,夸大其词。 ”