add or fabricate details;deliberately embellish the facts; falsify a story; play up ? 打票車的事件在棗莊人民的秘密談話中流傳著，事情經(jīng)過好多人的傳頌，往往～，后來簡直傳為神話了。(知俠《鐵道游擊隊(duì)》184) So the raid on the passenger train became the absorbing topic of conversation among the inhabitants of Zaozhuang. The manifold embellish ments of the story each time it was repeated made the event eventually seem like a myth.
添枝加葉tian zhi jia ye
embellish or embroider a story
添枝加葉tiān zhī jiā yè
在樹干上添些枝葉。形容為了夸張渲染，添加了原來并沒有的內(nèi)容。embellish a story, embroider, fabricate defails of a story