Spanish-English translations for adorno

adornmentThe European Parliament must not appear to anyone to be merely an expensive adornment of the Union. Nadie debería percibir el Parlamento Europeo como un simple, pero costoso, adorno de la UE. So the cultural reference in the text is not some intellectual adornment, but the very core and raison d'être of the European citizenship we are seeking. Lo cultural no es, así, un adorno erudito o una referencia adjetiva y ornamental del texto, sino la entraña misma y la razón de ser de la ciudadanía europea que se pretende. The draperies did little to keep out the light; rather, they were mainly there as adornment for the windows.
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Many have compared our wish list to some sort of Christmas tree with an overabundance of decorations. Muchos han llegado a comparar nuestra lista de deseos con una especie de árbol de Navidad cargado de demasiados de adornos. Attention was first devoted to political, then economic and only then to ecological conditions, as a form of decoration, as it were. Primero se prestó atención a la situación política, después a la económica y solo al final a la ecológica, a modo de adorno. Although it will indeed not be possible to state 'this is not a toy' on products that look like toys, producers will unfortunately label their toys as 'decorations'. Aunque efectivamente no será posible declarar que "esto no es un juguete" en productos que parecen juguetes, desgraciadamente los fabricantes etiquetarán sus juguetes como "adornos".