| 单词 | depict |
| 释义 | depict (once / 574 pages) v When you depict something, you draw a picture of it, describe it, or show what it looks like. So grab a crayon, a paint brush, or even an Etch-A-Sketch and start depicting. From the Latin depictus, meaning “to portray, paint, sketch, describe,” depict is a way to communicate what you see. To explain to an alien what a banana is, you can either depict it with drawings, describe it in words, or both. But be careful. Writes author Joyce Maynard, "The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art." WORD FAMILYdepict: depicted, depicting, depiction, depictive, depicts+/depiction: depictions USAGE EXAMPLESThe reality is closer to the latter: The Baltimore artist depicts discarded plants, left to wither. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) The animals were two of the 31 figures depicting the birth of Jesus that were painstakingly restored by volunteers over the past year. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) She thought it a relic, scrapped after it was depicted as an instrument of torture in the 1975 movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1v give a description of Syn|Hypo|Hyper describe, draw represent describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality delineatedescribe in vivid detail adumbrate, outline, sketchdescribe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of symbolise, symbolizerepresent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols actualise, actualizerepresent or describe realistically block outindicate roughly exposit, expound, set forth state 2v show in, or as in, a picture This scene depicts country life Syn|Hypo|Hyper picture, render, show illustrate depict with an illustration mapdepict as if on a map interpret, represent create an image or likeness of 3v make a portrait of Syn|Hyper limn, portray interpret, represent create an image or likeness of |
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