picture

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈpɪk.t͡ʃə/|[ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃə]    /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃə/|[ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃə]|/ˈpɪk.t͡ʃɚ/|[ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃɹ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
    — Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  2. An image; a representation as in the imagination.
    — My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
  3. A painting.
    — There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
  4. A photograph.
    — I took a picture of the church.
  5. A motion picture. India,dated
    — Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
  6. ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment). in-plural,informal
    — Let's go to the pictures.
  7. A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
    — She's the very picture of health.
  8. An attractive sight.
    — The garden is a real picture at this time of year.
  9. The art of painting; representation by painting.
    — any well-expressed image[…]either in picture or sculpture
  10. A figure; a model.
    — the young king's picture[…]in virgin wax
  11. Situation.
    — The employment picture for the older middle class is not so good.
  12. A sample of an illegal drug. Multicultural-London-English
    — If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture.
  13. A format string in the COBOL programming language.
    — The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution.
动词 v.
  1. To represent in or with a picture. transitive
    — while upon the shaded top of the box, drawn in perspective, the artist had pictured a plate with the beautifully executed, twin-lobed, brainlike, halved kernel of a walnut.
  2. To imagine or envision. transitive
    — Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
  3. To depict or describe vividly. transitive
    — I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move. I tried this way and I tried that; I pictured his future in an English gaol; I described the sorrow of his mother when I came back with the news; I said everything to touch his heart, but all to no purpose.

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“to paint”). Doublet of pictura.
词源 2
From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“to paint”). Doublet of pictura.
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