picture

picture

['piktʃə]

n.照片, 影片, 描述, 图画
vt.想像, 画, 拍照

例句与用法:

I can't picture the village without the old church.

我无法设想村子里没有那座旧教堂像什麽样子

The book gives a good picture of everyday life in ancient rome.

那部书对古罗马人的日常生活描写得很生动。

I get the picture you two want to be left alone together.

我现在明白了--你们俩想单独在一起。

Draw a picture of the house so we know what it looks like.

画出房子的图来让我们看看是什麽样子的。

This book gives a good picture of life in China 100 hundred years ago.

这本书形象地描写了一百年前的中国生活。

May I take a picture of you?

我可以给你照相吗?

词形变化:

动词过去式: pictured | 动词过去分词: pictured | 动词现在分词: picturing | 动词第三人称单数: pictures |


n.[C]

1. 画; 画像; 图片; 照片[(+of)]

I had a picture taken this morning.

今天上午我拍了张照。

2. 图像[S]

3. 【英】影片[C]; 电影院[the P]; 电影业[P]

4. (心中的)形象, 想像; (生动的)描写; 写照[S1][(+of)]

This book gives a good picture of life in China today.

这本书生动地描述了当代中国的生活情况。

5. 局面, 状况[S]

I'm trying to learn about the other side of the picture.

我在设法了解事情的另一面。

6. 酷似的东西; 化身[the S][(+of)]

7. 美丽如画的人(或物); 美景[S]

vt.

1. 想像[+wh-][O7]

Can you picture Bill dressed as a fairy?

你能想像得出比尔扮作仙女的模样吗?

2. 画, 拍摄; (生动地)描绘, 描述[O]

The painter pictured the general sitting on a horse.

画家给骑着马的将军画像。


短语词组:

the picture of

1. 与……非常相像

The small girl is the picture of her mother.

那小女孩与她母亲长得一模一样。

2. 是……的化身(或体现)

That boy is the picture of health.

那男孩非常健康。

come into the picture

1. 有牵连

We did not expect that you had come into the picture at all.

我们当时根本没想到你会有牵连。

get the picture

1. 了解情况

Your wife ran away with your best friend. Now do you get the picture?

你的老婆跟你好友私奔了。现在你知道了吗?

I explained the point to her again and again, and finally she got the picture.

我就那一点向她再三解释, 后来她终于明白了。

go to the pictures

1. 去看电影

They often go to the pictures.

她们经常去看电影。

out of the picture

1. 不相干的

In talking about this, you could hardly keep the housing problem out of the picture.

谈到这一点, 就不可能不谈及住房问题。

picture to oneself

1. 想像

She pictured to herself the family sitting by the fire.

她想像着一家人围坐在火炉旁的情形。

put sb. in the picture

1. 把情况告诉某人

He's been away for several weeks, and we'd better put him in the picture at once.

他离开了几星期, 我们最好立即把情况告诉他。


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