caricature英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.

— Lo Ching-chong (羅慶忠), better known as L.C.C., showed off a caricature of Lu he did in 2001. In the black-and-white drawing, Lu sports a bird's nest-like hairdo, with a bird perched in it.
A grotesque misrepresentation.

— A grotesque caricature of virtue.
In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.

动词 v.

To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.

— Their faults grew suddenly perceptible, and their absurdities an unfailing subject of mimicry. All these, in his hands, became singularly amusing. Francesca, who had little knowledge, and no envy, of the individuals so relentlessly caricatured, could not help being entertained.

形容词 adj.

Having the characteristics of a caricature, grotesque. not-comparable

— That singularly foolish old lady, her grandmother, got up a sort of caricature conspiracy, and Miss Churchill was to have been married to a coxcombical Jacobite, of the name of Trevanion; but he was arrested in the church, though he has since escaped by means of the jailor's daughter.

词形变化

caricatures plural caricatura alternative,archaic caricatura alternative,archaic caricatures present,singular,third-person caricaturing participle,present caricatured participle,past caricatured past caricatura alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词

anticaricature caricature plant caricaturise caricaturisation caricaturish caricaturable

词源

词源 1

From French caricature, from Italian caricatura, ultimately from Latin carrus, and so not related to character, which is instead ultimately from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”).

词源 2

From French caricature, from Italian caricatura, ultimately from Latin carrus, and so not related to character, which is instead ultimately from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”).

词源 3

From French caricature, from Italian caricatura, ultimately from Latin carrus, and so not related to character, which is instead ultimately from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”).