trappings

n.服饰；装饰；外部标志

名词trapping的复数形式.

So we see the trappings of power. 因此我们看见了权力的服饰。

But all they had added was the trappings and panoply of applied science. 但是他们所增添的一切，不过是实用科学的装饰和甲胄罢了。

To dress up a simple expressive folk tune in the trappings of a symphony is to degrade it. 把简练的富于感情的民间曲调用交响乐的装饰打扮起来就是贬低它。