airbrush

airbrush
noun
  1. an artist's device for spraying paint by means of compressed air
    (用压缩空气在表面上喷洒颜料的)气笔,气刷
verb
  1. [with obj.]paint with an airbrush
    用气笔作画
    a cab airbrushed with a mural of a sunset.
    喷画有落日的出租车。
    ■alter or conceal (a photograph or a detail in one) using an airbrush
    用气笔修改,掩盖(照片或照片中某部分)
    a picture of a man with wings airbrushed on to his shoulders.
    在他肩膀上用气笔画上长双翅的人像。
    ■[usu. as adj. airbrushed](figurative)represent or describe (someone or something) as better or more beautiful than they in fact are
    (喻)粉饰
    an airbrushed vision of the decade.
    这十年的粉饰过的幻想。
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