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单词 cityscape
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Definition of cityscape in English:

cityscape

noun ˈsɪtɪskeɪpˈsɪdiˌskeɪp
  • 1The visual appearance of a city or urban area; a city landscape.

    shades of red brick which once coloured the cityscape
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The artist said he has always been inspired by the cityscapes and urban culture which peppers the environment he grew up surrounded by.
    • Fascinating in itself, it also plays a complex role in the surrounding cityscape.
    • In the meantime, I'm enjoying the mists of autumn but, when I dream, it is of cityscapes rather than rural landscapes.
    • Chaotic, dark and layered, the collage suggests an apocalyptic futuristic urban world that only remotely relate to our traditional cityscapes.
    • As for infrastructure, it doesn't just drop from the sky, magically ‘appearing’ on our cityscapes.
    • The final showdown takes place in the sinister cityscape, which still has its creepy visual charge.
    • Nightime in the area also brings exciting vistas over Canary Wharf, lit up to create breathtaking cityscapes.
    • One can also take issue with the contrived nature of the chase scenes, which were of no dramatic value but rather served to showcase the cinematography and visually exploit the cityscapes of Rome.
    • The Riverside City project will see a new cityscape built from the docklands.
    • Not all development is good; some of it is hideous, but most of the projects we are talking about are earmarked for areas where the cityscape has already been set.
    • It is sad when the foreign tourist stepping off the plane does not really feel he is in the country because the cityscape around him can be found almost anywhere else in the world.
    • The bike path that runs along the gorgeous Lachine Canal, which is lined with ducks, geese, a great view of the cityscape, and plenty of shaded areas, is beautiful, but challenging.
    • Most theatres and concert halls contribute to the cityscape and weave of urban life.
    • Occasionally, the students from my urban environments seminar will send cards depicting cityscapes: tenement housing, a tangle of highways, a well-designed park.
    • Visually, the project functions much like an interactive cityscape.
    • As she glanced through the window at the passing cityscape, she was once more filled with thoughts of Paris.
    • His main characters are usually portrayed against huge backgrounds, maze-like cityscapes or walls of nameless faces.
    • The environment varies from desolate, mountainous areas populated only by the occasional tree to vast cityscapes, teeming with skyscrapers and featuring most of the attendant detail of a civilized area.
    • Think of how the property boom in the UK has reshuffled towns and cities - changing cityscapes, mental maps, cultural capital, urban imagery.
    • Ski areas are certainly more natural than cityscapes, but they still create significant environmental impacts through logging, erosion and damage to wetlands.
    Synonyms
    landscape, countryside, country, terrain, topography, setting, surroundings, environment
    1. 1.1 A picture of a city.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The resulting compositions appear as visual clips excerpted from the cityscape.
      • The large, stylized portraits he presented employ the same picture-book graphics and primary colors of the earlier cityscapes and car book.
      • Thematically, works range from portraits and self-portraits, cityscapes, crowd scenes and spectacles to cultural icons.
      • His subject matter ranges from portraits to cityscapes, harbor scenes, still lifes and sports figures.
      • Why I mention all this is because there's an exhibition opening tomorrow evening at the gallery which I earnestly recommend because it concentrates on new paintings of South African cityscapes and landscapes.
      • The land- or cityscapes in the blown-up photos introduce varying degrees of spatial recession, the depth depending on the scenes.
      • The range of ideas was quite varied; students drew seasonal scenes, tranquil landscapes, busy cityscapes and out-of-this-world lunarscapes.
      • A keen artist with a sketchbook full of imaginative cityscapes, he's delighted to combine his love of art with the chance to explain his position.
      • While the tintype served the mass-portraiture market, wet-plate lent itself to landscapes, cityscapes, and mass-reproduced celebrity portraits.
      • His work, however, is more subtle and varied than the term implies and this retrospective is certainly evidence of that - included alongside his images of men are his cityscapes and natural landscapes.
      • In both the cityscapes and the flower paintings, an almost shocking liberty with facts is apparent.
      • Bravura brushwork and florid lines characterize the rigorous and dazzling craftsmanship evident in each of the portraits, cityscapes and elaborate figure compositions that were on view.
      • This follows his earlier, highly acclaimed series of landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes and flowers.
      • An artist who gained celebrity as a small boy for his incredible ability to draw architecture and cityscapes in minute detail, often from an aerial view, is the subject of an exhibition at Orleans House Gallery.
      • Another drawing, a cityscape of the capital city, is a slice of the life he experienced during his days at the Fine Arts College.
      • The expatriate's urban cityscape is assembled from large spools of colored thread, empty liquor bottles, and toy cars.
      • It was around that time she began painting cityscapes, no doubt inspired by the spectacular view they had from their 30th floor apartment.
      • He painted American landscapes and cityscapes with a disturbing truth, expressing the world around him as a chilling, alienating, and often vacuous place.
      • Included are his mouth-watering depictions of gumball machines, cakes and pies, along with his later human figures and brilliantly colored cityscapes of San Francisco and landscapes of the Sacramento Valley.
      • His oil paintings are interwoven with Russian folklore in both large and small-scale surreal landscapes and cityscapes.
      Synonyms
      view, vista, outlook, perspective, panorama, aspect, scene
 
 

Definition of cityscape in US English:

cityscape

nounˈsɪdiˌskeɪpˈsidēˌskāp
  • 1The visual appearance of a city or urban area; a city landscape.

    shades of red brick which once colored the cityscape
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ski areas are certainly more natural than cityscapes, but they still create significant environmental impacts through logging, erosion and damage to wetlands.
    • Occasionally, the students from my urban environments seminar will send cards depicting cityscapes: tenement housing, a tangle of highways, a well-designed park.
    • The Riverside City project will see a new cityscape built from the docklands.
    • Nightime in the area also brings exciting vistas over Canary Wharf, lit up to create breathtaking cityscapes.
    • The environment varies from desolate, mountainous areas populated only by the occasional tree to vast cityscapes, teeming with skyscrapers and featuring most of the attendant detail of a civilized area.
    • Most theatres and concert halls contribute to the cityscape and weave of urban life.
    • It is sad when the foreign tourist stepping off the plane does not really feel he is in the country because the cityscape around him can be found almost anywhere else in the world.
    • Chaotic, dark and layered, the collage suggests an apocalyptic futuristic urban world that only remotely relate to our traditional cityscapes.
    • Fascinating in itself, it also plays a complex role in the surrounding cityscape.
    • The final showdown takes place in the sinister cityscape, which still has its creepy visual charge.
    • Not all development is good; some of it is hideous, but most of the projects we are talking about are earmarked for areas where the cityscape has already been set.
    • The bike path that runs along the gorgeous Lachine Canal, which is lined with ducks, geese, a great view of the cityscape, and plenty of shaded areas, is beautiful, but challenging.
    • Think of how the property boom in the UK has reshuffled towns and cities - changing cityscapes, mental maps, cultural capital, urban imagery.
    • As she glanced through the window at the passing cityscape, she was once more filled with thoughts of Paris.
    • One can also take issue with the contrived nature of the chase scenes, which were of no dramatic value but rather served to showcase the cinematography and visually exploit the cityscapes of Rome.
    • Visually, the project functions much like an interactive cityscape.
    • As for infrastructure, it doesn't just drop from the sky, magically ‘appearing’ on our cityscapes.
    • His main characters are usually portrayed against huge backgrounds, maze-like cityscapes or walls of nameless faces.
    • In the meantime, I'm enjoying the mists of autumn but, when I dream, it is of cityscapes rather than rural landscapes.
    • The artist said he has always been inspired by the cityscapes and urban culture which peppers the environment he grew up surrounded by.
    Synonyms
    landscape, countryside, country, terrain, topography, setting, surroundings, environment
    1. 1.1 A picture of a city.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Another drawing, a cityscape of the capital city, is a slice of the life he experienced during his days at the Fine Arts College.
      • His work, however, is more subtle and varied than the term implies and this retrospective is certainly evidence of that - included alongside his images of men are his cityscapes and natural landscapes.
      • The range of ideas was quite varied; students drew seasonal scenes, tranquil landscapes, busy cityscapes and out-of-this-world lunarscapes.
      • While the tintype served the mass-portraiture market, wet-plate lent itself to landscapes, cityscapes, and mass-reproduced celebrity portraits.
      • His oil paintings are interwoven with Russian folklore in both large and small-scale surreal landscapes and cityscapes.
      • In both the cityscapes and the flower paintings, an almost shocking liberty with facts is apparent.
      • Thematically, works range from portraits and self-portraits, cityscapes, crowd scenes and spectacles to cultural icons.
      • His subject matter ranges from portraits to cityscapes, harbor scenes, still lifes and sports figures.
      • Why I mention all this is because there's an exhibition opening tomorrow evening at the gallery which I earnestly recommend because it concentrates on new paintings of South African cityscapes and landscapes.
      • It was around that time she began painting cityscapes, no doubt inspired by the spectacular view they had from their 30th floor apartment.
      • The large, stylized portraits he presented employ the same picture-book graphics and primary colors of the earlier cityscapes and car book.
      • A keen artist with a sketchbook full of imaginative cityscapes, he's delighted to combine his love of art with the chance to explain his position.
      • Included are his mouth-watering depictions of gumball machines, cakes and pies, along with his later human figures and brilliantly colored cityscapes of San Francisco and landscapes of the Sacramento Valley.
      • He painted American landscapes and cityscapes with a disturbing truth, expressing the world around him as a chilling, alienating, and often vacuous place.
      • The resulting compositions appear as visual clips excerpted from the cityscape.
      • An artist who gained celebrity as a small boy for his incredible ability to draw architecture and cityscapes in minute detail, often from an aerial view, is the subject of an exhibition at Orleans House Gallery.
      • The expatriate's urban cityscape is assembled from large spools of colored thread, empty liquor bottles, and toy cars.
      • Bravura brushwork and florid lines characterize the rigorous and dazzling craftsmanship evident in each of the portraits, cityscapes and elaborate figure compositions that were on view.
      • The land- or cityscapes in the blown-up photos introduce varying degrees of spatial recession, the depth depending on the scenes.
      • This follows his earlier, highly acclaimed series of landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes and flowers.
      Synonyms
      view, vista, outlook, perspective, panorama, aspect, scene
 
 
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