snapBritish EnglishBrE informal, snapshot especially American EnglishAmE a photograph that you take quickly and without thinking carefully about how it will look, for example when you are on holiday
Patrick showed me his holiday snaps.
She showed me a snapshot of her three children.
shot informal a photograph – used especially by people who often take photographs
In everyday English, people usually say photo or picture rather than photograph: 在日常英语中,人们一般说photo或picture,而不说photograph
This is my dad in this photo.
这张照片里这是我爸爸。
Who took the picture?
这照片是谁拍的?
nCOLLOCATIONS
verbs
take a photograph
He wanted to take a photograph of me.
get a photograph (=take one successfully)
I got some brilliant photographs of the desert.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + photograph
a colour photograph
The book is fully illustrated with colour photographs.
a black-and-white photograph
a digital photograph
a framed photograph
On the desk was a framed photograph of a woman.
a signed photograph
He keeps a signed photograph of Bill Clinton in his office.
a wedding photograph
Your wedding photographs will keep the memories of the big day alive for you.
an aerial photograph (=one taken from a plane)
Aerial photographs can be used to locate archaeological sites.
faded
All her life she kept a faded photograph of him in his army uniform.
blurred
He was shown a blurred photograph, taken from a moving car.
grainy (=with a rough, not sharp, appearance)
I stared at the grainy newspaper photograph, searching for my mother.
sepia (=used about a black and white photograph that has shades of brown, in a way that is typical of old photographs)
an 1854 sepia photograph of Jonathan Pickering, the company founder
photograph + NOUN
a photograph album (=a book in which you put photographs)
Mama kept a photograph album full of pictures of her family.
Examples from the Corpus
photograph• Ansel Adams' photographs of the Americanwilderness are now worth thousands of dollars.• The exhibits are surrounded by period costumes and photographs, and the show is to last until January.• It's full of great colourphotographs and is all about endangered animals.• The first photographs should be released later in the day.• My camera's fully automatic and takes really good photographs.• I hate having my photograph taken.• Visitors are not allowed to take photographsinside the Museum.• Christine showed me a book based on their documentary and explained the captions under the photographs.• The photograph is always about looking, and seeing.• In this photograph, which appears in many anthologies, the chair looks bleak in its complete aloneness.• Her weddingphotograph showed her with a prettily plumpfigure.• The photographer asked all the guests to stand still and pose for the wedding photograph.• black-and-white photographs of the canyon
took ... photograph• Sometimes I took my camera to the beach and took photographs of some of the boats that went by.• Afterwards we went outside and took photographs.• Conversations with clients were tape-recorded and remote controlled 35 millimetre Olympus cameras took photographs in the bedrooms.• Di Gesu took photographs until just before his death.• From this he took a photograph which he passed across to Mrs Wilson.• He took a photograph of the sign, on the ground in front of it.• I took photographs of the birds on the cliffs.• I took a photograph of Tamar out of my bag.
1[transitiveT]TCPPICTURE to take a photograph of someone or something 为…拍照,为…照相
Kate agreed to let me photograph her.
凯特同意让我为她拍照。
He stood by the tree to be photographed.
他站在树旁准备让人拍照。
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In everyday English, people usually say take a photo or take a picture of someone or something rather than photograph someone or something: 在日常英语中,人们一般说take a photo或take a picture of someone or something,而不说photograph someone or something
( photo) ADJECTIVE | VERB + PHOTOGRAPH | PHOTOGRAPH + VERB | PHOTOGRAPH + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤old, recent舊照片;近照▸➤early, vintage早期/老式照片▸➤black-and-white, colour/color, sepia黑白/彩色/深褐色照片◇We looked through her old black-and-white photographs.我們翻閱了她的黑白老照片。➤blurred, blurry, fuzzy, grainy, out-of-focus模糊不清的照片;顆粒狀的照片;聚焦不準的照片◇a fuzzy black-and-white photograph一張模糊不清的黑白照片◇The newspaper published a grainy photograph of her.報紙上刊登了她的一幅麻面照片。◇This photograph is out of focus.這張照片對焦不準。➤faded褪色的照片▸➤clear, sharp清晰的/成像銳利的照片◇The photographs were clear and sharp.這張照片非常清晰。➤action動態照片◇The book is illustrated with 96 action photographs.這本書有 96 幅動態照片插圖。➤beautiful, excellent, good, great, lovely, stunning, superb, wonderful美麗的/出色的/漂亮的/非常好的/可愛的/令人難忘的/上好的/精彩的照片▸➤good-quality, high-quality, high-resolution高品質的相片;高清晰度的照片▸➤glossy光面照片▸➤framed裝框的照片▸➤signed簽名照▸➤studio攝影棚裏拍的照片▸➤group, team (especially BrE) 集體照➤portrait肖像照▸➤family家庭照片▸➤wedding結婚照▸➤school (especially BrE) (usually school picture in NAmE)全班照▸➤cover, magazine, newspaper, press封面/雜誌上的/報紙上的/新聞照片◇The cover photograph of one magazine showed a dying soldier.一本雜誌上的封面照片是一名奄奄一息的士兵。➤publicity宣傳照片▸➤documentary紀實照片➤archival, archive (BrE) 檔案照片➤historic, historical, period歷史/具時代特徵的照片➤famous著名照片◇the famous photograph of Che Guevara切・格瓦拉的著名照片➤fashion時裝照片▸➤passport, passport-sized護照照片;與護照照片一樣大小的照片➤enlarged放大的照片▸➤close-up特寫照片▸➤still靜物照片◇Frame the subject in the video viewfinder as you would for a still photograph.就像你拍靜物照片時那樣,在錄像機的取景器裏框定拍攝對象。➤aerial, satellite航拍/衞星照片◇satellite photographs of Beijing北京的衞星照片➤digital, Polaroid™數碼/寶麗來一次成像照片▸➤infrared紅外照片➤indecent, law法律) , pornographic不雅/淫穢照片◇He admitted offences of possessing indecent photographs of children.他承認了藏有兒童不雅照片的罪行。VERB + PHOTOGRAPH➤get, shoot, take拍照◇I got some great photographs of the party.我搞到了那次聚會一些非常棒的照片。◇Can I have my photograph taken with you?我可以和你一起拍張照片嗎?◇I spent the day taking photographs of the city.我花了一整天的時間拍攝這座城市的照片。➤compose對照片進行構圖▸➤pose for擺好姿勢拍照◇We posed for a group photograph.我們擺拍了一張集體照。➤make適宜入鏡◇The sun rising over the horizon would have made a good photograph.太陽從地平線上升起的景象會是一幅美麗的照片。➤copy, develop, print複印/沖洗/打印照片◇I can't wait till the photographs have been printed.我等不及把那些照片印出來。◇I prefer to print my digital photographs.我喜歡把我的數碼照片打印出來。➤blow up, enlarge放大照片◇A photograph of them is blown up to fill two full pages.他們的一張照片被放大,佔了兩個整版。◇editing software that enables you to enlarge and crop photographs可以放大和剪裁照片的編輯軟件◇Click on individual photographs to enlarge them.點擊單幅照片,可以放大。➤touch up修飾照片◇The photograph has been touched up to conceal her scar.照片已經過修飾以掩蓋她的傷疤。➤crop裁切照片▸➤mount裱貼照片◇I cropped the photograph and mounted it on some card.我把照片裁了一下,然後貼到一張小卡片上。➤scan, scan in掃描/掃描輸入照片◇I scanned in some photographs of the family to send to friends by email.我掃描了一些家人的照片,通過電子郵件發送給朋友。◇She scans each photograph into her computer.她把每一張照片都掃描進了她的電腦。➤download, upload下載/上傳照片◇Upload your photographs to one of these sites.將你的照片上傳到其中一家網站。➤post張貼照片◇I'm learning how to post photographs on my blog.我正在學習如何在博客上發照片。➤store存貯照片◇the photographs stored on the memory card內存卡上存貯的照片➤publish, release發表/發佈照片◇The next day they published photographs of the kidnappers.第二天,他們登出了綁架者的照片。◇a couple of photographs released by news agencies通訊社發佈的幾張照片➤feature把照片特寫◇The first issue featured a photograph of Martha Graham on the cover.第一期封面上登載了瑪莎・格雷厄姆的特寫照片。PHOTOGRAPH + VERB➤appear照片出現◇Her photograph appeared in all the papers.她的照片出現在所有報紙上。➤depict sth, document sth, illustrate sth, reveal sth, show sth照片展示⋯▸➤capture sth照片捕捉到⋯◇The photograph manages to capture the excitement of the occasion.照片成功地抓住了這一激動人心的場面。PHOTOGRAPH + NOUN➤album相冊▸➤frame相框PREPOSITION➤in a/the photograph在照片裏◇The wing is assembled as shown in the photograph below.機翼就像下面的照片展示的那樣裝配起來。◇Tell me who everyone is in the photograph.告訴我照片裏的人都是誰。➤photograph of⋯的照片◇An aerial photograph of the field shows clearly where the buildings were.這一場地的航拍照片清晰地顯示出這些建築物的位置。◇a photograph of my son Edmund我兒子埃德蒙的照片➡ note at art
➡ See also the entry for picture另见picture条photograph ♦︎ picture ♦︎ photo ♦︎ shot ♦︎ slide ♦︎ snapshot/snap ♦︎ printThese are all words for a picture that has been made using a camera.这些词均表示照片。PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆a colour photograph / picture / photo / slide / snap / print◆to take a photograph / picture / photo / shot / snapshot◆a photograph / picture / photo / shot / slide / snapshot shows sb / sth■photograph [countable] a picture that has been made using a camera照片;相片◆aerial / satellite photographs飞机航拍/卫星照片◆Please enclose a recent passport-sized photograph of yourself.请附寄一张近照,护照相片大小的。◆I spent the morning taking photographs of the city.我用了一上午拍摄这座城市的照片。 see also photograph ⇨ recordverb2■picture [countable] a photograph照片;相片◆We had our picture taken in front of the hotel.我们在酒店前照了相。◆His picture appeared in the local paper.他的照片上了当地的报纸。▸picture
verb
[transitive, usually passive] ◆She is pictured here(= shown in a picture) with her parents.这张是她和父母在一起的照片。■photo [countable] (ratherinformal) a photograph照片;相片◆a colour / black-and-white / passport photo彩照;黑白照;护照照片◆a photo album相册◆Stand there and I'll take your photo.站那儿,我给你拍张照。NOTE辨析 Photograph, picture or photo?These words all have the same meaning. Photograph is slightly more formal and photo is slightly less formal. Picture is used especially in the context of photographs in newspapers, magazines and books. In American English it is more common to talk about taking pictures, although take photographs/photos is also used.这几个词的词义相同。photograph略显正式,photo略显非正式。picture尤指报纸、杂志和书籍中的照片。在美式英语中,尽管也用take photographs/photos,但taking pictures较常用。■shot [countable] a photograph照片;相片◆I tried to get a shot of him in the water.我试着给他在水里拍了张照片。◆publicity shots宣传照ⓘ Shot often places more emphasis on the process of taking the photograph, rather than the finished picture. * shot常强调拍照过程,而不是照片本身。■slide [countable] a small piece of film held in a frame that can be shown on a screen when you shine a light through it幻灯片◆a talk with colour slides用彩色幻灯片作辅助的讲话◆a slide show / projector幻灯放映;幻灯机■snapshotˈsnæpʃɒt; NAmEˈsnæpʃɑːt (BrE also, informalsnap) [countable] an informal photograph that is taken quickly, usually with a small, hand-held camera and not by a professional photographer(尤指非专业摄影师拍的、抢拍的)照片◆snapshots of the children孩子们的照片◆ (BrE) She showed us her holiday snaps.她给我们看了她度假时拍的照片。■print [countable] a copy of a photograph that is produced from film or from a digital camera(用底片或数字图像洗印的)照片◆How many sets of prints would you like?你要洗印多少套照片?◆a colour print彩色照片 see also print ⇨ picture▸print
verb
[transitive] ◆I'm having the pictures developed and printed.我去把照片洗印出来。