生活英语|adornment 店面

Adornment的意思是装装饰品。

Free Dictionary给出了两个讲解embellishment, ornamentation，就是抽象意义上的店面或者脸面。

She had managed to instill in her household a European sense of children as graceful^{1 adornments to the parents, as opposed to our ugly American democratic style, with even an infant given his noisy vote in all proceedings2.}

她极力在我们的家培养欧洲意义上的孩子，从而使他们成为爸爸妈妈的一种体面的装饰，而不像大家丑陋的美国民主生活作风，即便婴儿也可以通过哭喊对很多事表达他们的建议。