Furnishing

(noun.) the act of decorating a house or room.

(noun.) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable.

(noun.) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel.

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• I believe I and my family have also had the honour of furnishing some entertainment in the same grave place, said my guardian composedly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Two or three of the houses were occupied by the families of members of the staff; in the others boarders were taken, the laboratory, of course, furnishing all the patrons. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Furnishing was necessarily expensive; but then it had to be done only once. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There is good reason to believe that Dr. Franklin had no inconsiderable share at least in furnishing materials for this work. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I must see what I can give them towards furnishing their house. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Mr. Edison has built a very interesting machine, and he has the opportunity of making a valuable contribution to the electrical arts by furnishing authentic accounts of its capabilities. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The proteids are the building foods, furnishing muscle, bone, skin cells, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It would not have been very evident why he thanked the anatomist, but for his furnishing the explanation in what he went on to say. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But beside all this, the bulk of our people supported themselves by furnishing the necessities or conveniences of life to the rich and to each other. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• In no one thing has man shown greater fertility of invention than in lighting; to nothing does he cling more tenaciously than to his devices for furnishing light. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In commerce, each aims at the satisfaction of his own wants, but can gain his own profit only by furnishing some commodity or service to another. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• That congressional district stands credited at the War Department to-day with furnishing more men for the army than it was called on to supply. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• For furnishing current for telegraphic purposes the dynamo, and especially the storage battery, have in late years found useful application. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The voice, instead of furnishing all the power as with the present receiver, merely controlled the power, just as an engineer working a valve would control a powerful engine. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Instead of furnishing a starting point for learning, they mark out a consummation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A great industry of beautiful and elaborate fabrics and furnishings developed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When he could get no other fuel he turned to the scant furnishings of his house. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The furnishings and other contents of the room it was which riveted his attention. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The only time I ever felt badly was when I felt like a whore in Milan and that only lasted seven minutes and besides it was the room furnishings. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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