to polish metal until it is smooth and shiny
1.磨,打磨
2.【机】抛光,轧光;擦亮;使光滑
3.(金属等经擦,磨等而)发亮
1.光泽,光亮;光滑
1.to rub metal until it shines
2.to improve your reputation or the way you appear to other people
1.The decrease, he says, is largely the result of China's attempts to burnish its international image in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.
他认为这个数字的下降很大部分是由于中国试图在北京奥运热身阶段擦亮其国际形象。
2.Whether or not that is true, organic cotton certainly looks attractive to retailers trying to burnish their socially responsible images.
无论这是不是真的，有机棉花的确对那些试着改善自己社会责任形象的零售商来说很有吸引力。
3.He left the state with a budget deficit, but has since tried to burnish his credentials as a hawk on spending.
他离任时，明尼苏达州经历着预算赤字，但从此以后为了证明自己，他在经费上表现出“鹰式作风”。
4.Burnish Bookbinding term for the finishing of the edges of a book with a burnishing tool to impart a polished surface.
装订术语。用磨光工具把书边打磨光滑。
5.Providers will seek to burnish returns by pushing mobile broadband and mobile payments services, the bank predicted.
汇丰预计，运营商将努力推广移动宽带和移动支付服务，以求提高回报率。
6.Many analysts fear this means the young leader may have to burnish his martial reputation with a strike against South Korean or US targets.
许多分析人士担心，这意味着这名年轻的领导人为了拔高自己在军事方面的形象，可能发动针对韩国或美国目标的袭击。
7.The first test is whether Mr Sarkozy is willing to see Club Med as more than a scheme to burnish French glory.
第一要检视萨科奇先生是否愿意视地中海俱乐部为一个比法国自身大放异彩更重要的计划。
8.Sarkozy has also relished using France's position in international institutions to burnish his own image as a statesman.
不仅如此，萨科齐还经常拿法国在国际机构中的地位来塑造自己杰出政治家的形象。
9.Investors are fretting that rising steel sales may not be enough to burnish profit margins . . .
投资者现在担心，钢铁销售增长或不足以提升利润率…
10.Want to choose to be able to behave the hairstyle of hair burnish, wait like straight hair, bingle , tress.
要选择能表现头发光泽的发型，如直发、短发、发辫等。