add or fabricate details;deliberately embellish the facts; falsify a story; play up ❍ 打票车的事件在枣庄人民的秘密谈话中流传着，事情经过好多人的传颂，往往～，后来简直传为神话了。(知侠《铁道游击队》184) So the raid on the passenger train became the absorbing topic of conversation among the inhabitants of Zaozhuang. The manifold embellish ments of the story each time it was repeated made the event eventually seem like a myth.
添枝加叶tian zhi jia ye
embellish or embroider a story
添枝加叶tiān zhī jiā yè
在树干上添些枝叶。形容为了夸张渲染，添加了原来并没有的内容。embellish a story, embroider, fabricate defails of a story