| 单词 | character sketch |
| 释义 | > as lemmascharacter sketch character sketch n. a brief analysis of the character of a type of person or of a particular individual. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > outlining or sketching > character sketch or delineation of character ethopoeia1555 charactery1608 character1645 characterizing1702 character sketch1842 1842 Graham's Mag. Sept. 154/1 A gallery of character-sketches in which the various classes of travelers, exiles, and other ‘Franks’, encountered on the banks of the Nile..are exhibited. 1911 C. E. Morgan Rise Novel of Manners iii. 96 Practically every type of character-sketch can be found in the Tatler and Spectator; in them can be traced every stage of its development from the short, objective, impersonal ‘anatomy’ of a type, to the sympathetic delineation of a typical individual under many different circumstances. 1954 W. K. Wimsatt Verbal Icon Introd. p. xiv In writing a character sketch, we do not say, ‘Observe he has a nose and breathes through it.’ 2010 K. Ng in H. E. Harris et al. Obama Effect 267 A steady stream of popular publications by journalists detailing their experiences of the election,..and rough character sketches of the man and woman behind it all. < as lemmas |
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