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单词 picture
释义

picture

/ˈpɪktʃə /
noun
1A painting or drawing: draw a picture of a tree...
  • The various pictures, drawings and paintings had their captions in Irish.
  • He writes and prints in periodicals verses, drawings and reproductions of pictures which he draws with a brush held in his mouth.
  • More than a dozen original pictures (both drawings and paintings) of the dodo now exist.

Synonyms

painting, drawing, sketch, print, canvas, delineation, cartoon, portrait, portrayal, illustration, artist's impression, artwork, depiction, likeness, representation, image, icon
1.1A photograph: we were warned not to take pictures...
  • The photographer wants to take pictures of me with my laptop.
  • A production photographer wants to take pictures of us next to the famous Emmerdale sign.
  • The use of long lens photography to take pictures of people in private places without their consent is also forbidden.

Synonyms

photograph, photo, shot, snap, snapshot, image, portrait, study;
print, slide, transparency, negative, positive, plate, film, bromide, frame, exposure, still, proof, enlargement;
British enprint
1.2A portrait: she had her picture painted...
  • How could these critics of Raphael's unrealistic depictions of the world turn around and paint endless pictures of Ophelia?
  • We've probably seen a picture or a portrait of them, or some depiction, which passes for a portrait.
  • He then moved to Nigeria, where he lived for nearly 25 years, working as a magistrate and a high court judge and painting pictures of people he met.
1.3An image on a television screen: television pictures of captured airmen [as modifier]: poor picture quality...
  • Just as yesterday, our televisions screens relayed pictures of running battles with police.
  • Anna stood outside beside the exit door, and watched the rows of television screens displaying pictures of the roller coaster ride.
  • Fog, frost and even poor television pictures are some of the main problems.
1.4A cinema film: the movie took five honours including best picture...
  • The only action in his war picture occurs at the very beginning of the film.
  • The picture spawned several sequels aimed at the teenage horror market.
  • There is a rule of thumb amongst movie buffs: the more scriptwriters the worse the picture.

Synonyms

film, movie, feature film;
British cinema film;
North American motion picture
informal flick
dated moving picture
1.5 (the pictures) The cinema: I’m going to the pictures with my mates...
  • They were rowdy and shouting - they weren't interested in going to the pictures, they were looking for a fight.
  • But apart from that, I like hanging out with my mates and going to the pictures.
  • She's been chilling out, listening to music, going to the pictures, reading a lot.

Synonyms

the cinema, the movies, the silver screen, the big screen;
North American a motion picture house
informal the flicks
2An impression of something formed from a description: a full picture of the disaster had not yet emerged...
  • But let us hear Socrates out, and get a view of the full picture, as he argues that it would be wrong for him to escape into exile.
  • Figures like this are exceptional in the extreme and give a completely unrepresentative impression of the national picture.
  • The long-term picture is impressive in light of poor mechanisation levels in the country.

Synonyms

concept, idea, impression, mental picture, view, (mental) image, vision, visualization, notion, theory, abstraction
3 archaic A person or thing resembling another closely: ‘How excessively like her brother Miss Morland is!’ ‘The very picture of him, indeed!’...
  • He's the picture of his father, he's a bonny young Irish boy.
  • "He's the picture of his old sire, Lazzarone," he continued, looking the horse over critically.
  • She's the very picture of her. I saw it at once. When I first went into the room I could hardly believe my own eyes.

Synonyms

personification, embodiment, epitome, essence, perfect example, soul, model
rare exemplar, archetype, quintessence
verb [with object]
1Represent in a photograph or picture: he is pictured with party guests...
  • The poem begins along the right edge of a rice paper sheet next to a vertical strip of black and white photographs picturing Cha obscuring her face with her hands.
  • He is pictured at the party with former employees.
  • A calendar picturing semi-naked men, shot in aid of a village school, has caused uproar after proving too hot to handle.

Synonyms

photograph, take/get a photograph/photo of, take someone's picture/photo, take/get a picture of, take/get a snapshot/snap of, take, snap, shoot, take/get a shot of;
record, film, capture/record on film/celluloid
paint, draw, paint a picture of, sketch, depict, delineate, portray, catch (a likeness of), show, illustrate, reproduce, render, represent
1.1Describe in a certain way: biographers have pictured him as a St Francis...
  • It is usually pictured in the form of an elk, less often as a bear.
  • It is therefore imperative that your staff members know how they are being described and pictured.
  • I see you're trying to picture this in terms of a cinematic story that can be told on a screen.
1.2Form a mental image of: she pictured Benjamin waiting...
  • Then picture him waiting by the window to greet you every morning as you get to work.
  • My imagination won't let me picture Marilyn older than her 36 years.
  • It means having the imagination to picture the world through the eyes of an 18-year-old.

Synonyms

visualize, see in one's mind, see in one's mind's eye, conjure up a picture of, conjure up an image of, imagine, conceive, call to mind, image, see, evoke;
fantasize about, dream about
rare envision

Phrases

be in pictures

be (or look) a picture

the big (or bigger or larger) picture

get the picture

in the picture

out of the picture

a (or the) picture of ——

(as) pretty as a picture

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin pictura, from pict- 'painted' (from the verb pingere).

  • The word picture goes back to a form of Latin pingere ‘to paint’, from which paint and pigment (Old English) also derive. Doan's Backache Kidney Pills, claiming to cure everything from rheumatism to diabetes, were promoted with the advertising slogan every picture tells a story. The first known advertisement using it appeared in the Daily Mail of 26 February 1904. The novelist Charlotte Brontë had anticipated the advertising copy, though: in 1847 she wrote in Jane Eyre, ‘The letter-press…I cared little for…Each picture told a story.’ A caption in the magazine Printer's Ink for 8 December 1927, read: ‘Chinese proverb. One picture is worth ten thousand words.’ There is no evidence at all that it is Chinese, but a picture is worth a thousand words has certainly gone on to be a modern English proverb. Depict (Late Middle English) is from the verb depingere ‘portray’, from de- ‘completely’ and pingere.

Rhymes

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