He is likely to embroider the truth a bit.

他往往会修饰一下事实。

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Only with many embroidery techniques is it possible to embroider such wonderful patterns.

绣法多， 绣出来的图案才会多姿多彩。

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After spring, with tender green grass, grass, crammed with all sorts of flowers, the grass decorated like to embroider the flower green carpet.

春天来后，到处是嫩嫩的绿草，草丛中开满了各种各样的花，把草地装点得就像绣了花得绿绒地毯。

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This cognitive difference permits them to make, and embroider, external representations of that world in other words, to create art.

ECONOMIST: Come up and see my etchings

We use it to operate the cooperative but competitive system of social exchange that is a society: to charm, forgive, manipulate, bewitch, embroider, exaggerate, diminish, disparage to choose just some of the verbs from the key paragraph of Dr. Pagel's (beautifully written) book.

WSJ: Matt Ridley on the Ideas in Mark Pagel's Wired for Culture | Mind & Matter