visual imagery• The album is filled with folky, pop-inflected tunes, characterized by visual imagery, hope and passion.• Soon, Louisa was using her strong capacity for visual imagery to compensate for her difficulty in remembering words and sentences.• If Jarman comes dangerously close in the last to propagating the politics of ennui, his visual imagery is anything but predictable.• The first is that it consists in visual imagery.• Others who joined in sponsoring the law said it could help curb pinups and other visual imagery that demeans women.• Empirical work will be carried out to develop and standardise a new researchtechnique using visual imagery to probebeliefs about pain.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + IMAGERYADJECTIVE➤evocative, graphic, powerful, stark, violent, vivid引起共鳴的意象;形象的意象;傳神的意象;鮮明的意象;暴力意象;生動的比喻◇the vivid visual imagery of dreams栩栩如生的夢境➤negative負面意象◇the negative imagery of gays and lesbians on TV電視上同性戀者的負面形象➤positive正面意象▸➤popular流行的比喻◇The novels draw on popular imagery from newspapers.那些小說使用了報紙上流行的形象化描述。➤traditional傳統意象◇the traditional Christian imagery of crucifixion傳統的基督教耶穌受難意象➤visual視覺意象▸➤mental心理意象◇Illustrations may come between the text and the reader's own mental imagery.插圖也許會妨礙讀者在閱讀時發揮自己的想像。➤dream夢幻意象◇his continuing quest to explore dream imagery他探索夢幻意象的不懈追尋➤biblical, erotic, poetic, religious, sexual《聖經》意象;情愛意象;詩歌意象;宗教意象;性意象▸➤abstract, surreal, symbolic抽象的比喻;超現實意象;象徵性意象➤natural, representational自然/具象意象➤photographic, radar, satellite, video照相/雷達/衞星/視頻影像➤high-resolution高分辨率影像➤computer-generated, digital計算機合成/數字影像➤3-D, three-dimensional立體/三維影像➤aerial, overhead (especially NAmE) 航拍/高空拍攝影像◇The Pentagon is searching for overhead imagery from satellites or spy planes.五角大樓正在搜尋衞星或間諜飛機拍攝的影像。VERB + IMAGERY➤draw on, employ, use使用形象化描述;運用比喻➤create, produce, provide創作/製作/提供影像◇The equipment provides intelligence imagery for tactical commanders.這種設備為戰術指揮人員提供情報影像。➤evoke喚起意象◇He evokes complex imagery with a single well-placed word.他只用一個恰到好處的詞就喚起了複雜的意象。