英汉词典

picture 基本解释

• n. 照片，图画；影片；景色；化身
• vt. 画；想像；描写

picture 词态变化

picture 中文词源

来自拉丁语pictus,图画的，来自pingere,绘制，画图，来自PIE*peig,砍，切，词源同paint.

picture 英文词源

picture

picture: [15] Picture and paint are very closely related. The Latin verb pingere ‘paint’ was the source of English paint, and its past participial stem pict- produced a noun, pictūra ‘painting’, which was eventually to become English picture. The same source produced English depict [17] and Pict [OE] (etymologically the ‘painted’ or ‘tattooed’ people), while its ultimate ancestor, the Indo-European base *pik-, *pig- ‘cut’, also evolved Latin pigmentum ‘colouring substance’, from which English got pigment [14] and, via Spanish, pimento [17].
=> depict, paint, pigment, pimento

picture (n.)

early 15c., "drawing, painting," from Latin pictura "painting," from pictus, past participle of pingere "to make pictures, to paint, to embroider," (see paint (v.)). Picture window is from 1938. Picture post-card first recorded 1899. Phrase every picture tells a story first attested 1900, in advertisements for an illustrated life of Christ. To be in (or out of) the picture in the figurative sense dates to 1900.

Expression a picture is worth a thousand words, attested from 1918, probably was from the publication trade (the notion that a picture was worth 1,000 words is in printers' publications by 1911). The phrase also was in use in the form worth a million words, the form used by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane (1864-1936) in an editorial much-read c. 1916 titled "What is a Good Newspaper" in the "New York Evening Journal." In part it read, "After news and humor come good pictures. In this day of hurry we learn through the eye, and one picture may be worth a million words." It seems to have emerged into general use via the medium of advertising (which scaled down the number and also gave the expression its spurious origin story as "a Japanese proverb" or some such thing, by 1919). Earlier various acts or deeds (and in one case "the arrow") were said to be worth a thousand words.

picture (v.)

late 15c. in the literal sense; 1738 in the mental sense, from picture (n.). Related: Pictured; picturing.

picture 词组搭配

picture 英文释义

1. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;

"they showed us the pictures of their wedding"

"a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"

2. graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface;

"a small painting by Picasso"

"he bought the painting as an investment"

"his pictures hang in the Louvre"

3. a clear and telling mental image;

"he described his mental picture of his assailant"

"he had no clear picture of himself or his world"

"the events left a permanent impression in his mind"

4. a situation treated as an observable object;

"the political picture is favorable"

"the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"

5. illustrations used to decorate or explain a text;

"the dictionary had many pictures"

6. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;

"they went to a movie every Saturday night"

"the film was shot on location"

7. the visible part of a television transmission;

"they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"

8. a graphic or vivid verbal description;

"too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"

"the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"

"the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"

9. a typical example of some state or quality;

"the very picture of a modern general"

"she was the picture of despair"

picture 同义词解析

cinema, film, movie, picture

这些名词均有"电影"之意。

cinema与the连用指(上映的)电影，电影工业；可指电影院；在英国与the连用还可指电影艺术。

film： 指电影、影片，普通用词。

movie： 美国英语中的口语用词。

picture： 从原义指银幕或电视屏幕上的图像引申指影片。

describe, represent, sketch, picture

这些动词均有"描写，描述"之意。

describe： 侧重指描述细节，给读者或听众提供清晰的视觉图像。

represent： 指有代表性或象征性地描述或讲述。

sketch： 指快速地勾勒或概略地叙述。

picture： 着重能够栩栩如生地把事物或场景等描绘出来。

drawing, illustration, cartoon, diagram, picture, sketch, painting, portrait

这些名词都表示"画，图"之意。

drawing： 指用线条或色彩绘成的图画。

illustration： 指插入书页之间帮助说明的任何插图或图解。

cartoon： 指幽默或讽刺性漫画。

diagram： 多指科技书籍或文献中具有概括解说作用的图表、图样或略图。

picture： 指广义的"图画"，现多用来指相片、画像。

sketch： 通常指只画出物体主要特征的图画。

painting： 指着色的画。

portrait： 指肖像，只用于指人。

picture 双语例句

1. " Movie " is a colloquial word for " moving picture " .

movie是moving picture 的口语体.

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2. Police have released an E-fit picture of the suspected gunman.

警方已公布持枪嫌犯的电子画像。

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3. The Sun had captioned a picture of Princess Diana "Princess of Veils"

《太阳报》在黛安娜王妃的一张照片下写了一段说明文字——“披着面纱的王妃”。

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4. But as with other charitable bodies, these figures mask the true picture.

但和其他慈善机构一样，这些数字掩盖了实情。

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5. She visualized him stomping to his car, the picture of self-righteousness.

她想象着他噔噔噔地走向车子，一副自以为是的模样。

来自柯林斯例句

picture 实用场景例句

A picture of flowers hung on the wall.

墙上挂着一张花卉的图画。

牛津词典

The children were drawing pictures of their pets.

孩子们在画他们的宠物。

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She wanted a famous artist to paint her picture (= a picture of herself) .

她想请一位名画家为自己画像。

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a book with lots of pictures in it

一本有大量插图的书

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We had our picture taken in front of the hotel.

我们在旅馆前照了相。

牛津词典

The picture shows the couple together on their yacht.

照片显示这对情侣一同在他们的游艇上。

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A picture of Rory O'Moore hangs in the dining room at Kildangan.

一幅罗里·奥穆尔的画像挂在基尔丹根的餐厅里。

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...drawing a small picture with coloured chalks.

用彩色粉笔画一张小画

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The tourists have nothing to do but take pictures of each other...

游客无事可做，只能互相拍照。

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The Observer carries a big front-page picture of rioters in a litter-strewn street.

《观察家报》在头版刊登了一张暴乱者聚集在满是垃圾的街头的大幅照片。

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...heartrending television pictures of human suffering.

令人心碎的人类遭受苦难的电视画面

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The golfer is pictured on many of the front pages, kissing his trophy as he holds it aloft.

许多报纸的头版上都刊登了那个高尔夫球手高高举起奖杯亲吻的照片。

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...a woman who claimed she had been pictured dancing with a celebrity in Stringfellows nightclub...

宣称自己在斯特林费洛夜总会和某位名人跳舞的照片上了报纸的女子

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Warner Communications Inc. has refused to distribute the picture in the United States.

华纳通信公司已拒绝在美国发行这部电影。

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...a director of epic action pictures.

史诗动作片的导演

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We're going to the pictures tonight...

我们今晚要去看电影。

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I'd rather see it at the pictures than on video anyway.

我本来就宁可去电影院看，而不是看录像。

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They have in their mind a picture of what an alcoholic should look like...

他们的心中有一个酒鬼应有的样子。

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We are just trying to get our picture of the whole afternoon straight...

我们只是想把整个下午的情形搞清楚。

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He pictured her with long black braided hair...

他想象她留着黑油油的长辫子的样子。

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I never would have pictured this as her home...

我怎么也想不出她的家会是这样。

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I'll try and give you a better picture of what the boys do...

我会试着更清楚地向你描述一下这些男孩子都干些什么。

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Her book paints a bleak picture of the problems women now face...

她的书是女性当下所面临问题的凄凉写照。

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But as with other charitable bodies, these figures mask the true picture...

但和其他慈善机构一样，这些数字掩盖了实情。

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It's a similar picture across the border in Ethiopia.

在边界那边的埃塞俄比亚，情况也大致相似。

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Luke never tells you the whole story, but you always get the picture.

卢克从不告诉你事情的来龙去脉，但你总会弄明白是怎么回事。

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Meyerson is back in the picture after disappearing in July...

迈耶森在7月份消失后现在又掺和了进来了。

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Sometimes security was so tight that people who might have had something important to offer were left out of the picture.

有时安全措施过于严密，使本来可能会提供重要情况的人成了局外人。

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We found her standing on a chair, the picture of terror, screaming hysterically.

我们发现她站在一把椅子上，满脸恐惧地发出歇斯底里的尖叫。

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Has Inspector Fayard put you in the picture?

法亚尔督察把情况都告诉你了吗？

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