一、详细释义:
n.
图画;绘画;电视图像 [C]
例句:
The picture was framed in light oak.
这幅画被镶在浅色橡木框里。
例句:
I wonder if this picture can be restored.
我很想知道这幅画能否修复。
相片;照片 [C]
例句:
Try angling the camera for a more interesting picture.
试用照相机斜着照,照出来的相片更有意思。
例句:
I want to clip that picture from the magazine.
我要把杂志上的那张照片剪下来.
[usually sing.] 描绘;描述 [C]
例句:
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。
例句:
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。
[usually sing.] 头脑中的情景;记忆;印象 [C]
例句:
The new face was like a new picture introduced to the gallery of memory.
这张新的脸,仿佛是陈列在记忆的画廊里的一幅新的画。
[sing.] 状况;情形;形势 [C]
例句:
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。
例句:
Since then the picture has changed completely.
从那以来情况完全改变了。
电影 [C]
例句:
This picture attracts a large audience.
这部电影吸引了很多观众。
例句:
The picture now showing is a new copy.
现在上映的电影是个新拷贝。
【旧】【非正式】电影院;影剧院 [C]
例句:
We're going to the pictures tonight.
我们今晚要去看电影。
例句:
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。
v.
[picture sb (as sth)]想象;设想;忆起 [T]
例句:
He still pictured her as buxom, high-colored, lively and a little blowsy.
他心中仍旧认为她身材丰满、面色红润、生气勃勃、还有点邋遢。
[often passive][picture sb/sth as sth] 描述;描写;描绘 [T]
例句:
The book pictured the world of the future.
这本书生动地描写了未来世界。
例句:
The artist has pictured him as a young man in riding dress.
画家把他画成身穿骑服的年轻人。
[usually passive] 显示在照片上;用图片显示;拍照 [T]
例句:
They were pictured together in a coffee shop in Central.
他们被拍到一起光顾中环的一间咖啡店。
二、词义辨析:
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。