adorn: implies an enhancing by something beautiful in itself: a diamond necklace ~ed her neck.


decorate: suggests the addition of color or interest to what is dull or monotonous: ~ a birthday cake with colored frosting.


ornament: implies the adding of something extraneous to heighten or set off the original: a white house ~ed with green shutters.         (照相机的)快门;百叶窗;活动护窗;


embellish: often stresses the adding of a superfluous or adventitious element: ~ a page with floral borders.    (adventitious 无关随意的lack of essential relationship)


beautify: suggests a counteracting of a plainness or ugliness: will ~ the park with flower beds.


deck, bedeck: implies the addition of something that contributes to the gaiety, splendor, or showiness: a house all ~ed out for the holidays(deck); ~ed with garlands(bedeck).


garnish: suggests decorating with a small final touch and is used especially in referring to the serving of food: airline food invariably ~ed with parsley.   欧芹;荷兰芹;  


adorn: 装饰品本身美丽(如项链)，decorate: 增加色彩趣味使不再无趣单调，ornament:添加非自身事物，以提升效果，embellish: 常强调多余和无关，beautify: 消除平凡丑陋， deck, bedeck:增加欢快明亮夺目(gaiety,splendor,showiness)，garnish: 最后的稍加点缀，多指食物


记忆方法: 1) ADOEBDBG记成AD OB BED G<==到床边装饰食物        ad词根表示”到=to”， ob词根表示”路=way”，G就是garnish装饰食物

         2) 装饰的意思是提升外观(通过添加外在事物)mean to enhance the appearance of something by adding something unessential.