canvas

Word family

1 [uncountableU]TIM strong cloth used to make bags, tents, shoes etc 帆布

a canvas bag

帆布包

[countableC]AVP a painting done with oil paints, or the piece of cloth it is painted on 油畫；油畫布

The gallery has a canvas by Paul Cézanne.

這個美術館有一幅保羅·塞尚的油畫作品。

‘Four Women on a Bench’, oil on canvas, 1991

《長凳上的四個女人》，布面油畫，作於1991年

3 a broader/wider/larger canvas the whole of a situation, and not just a part of it 全局，總體形勢

These questions must be considered on a broader canvas.

這些問題必須從全局來考慮。

4. under canvas British EnglishBrEDLO in a tent 在帳篷内

Examples from the Corpus

canvas• And from somewhere beneath a cupboard she produced an enormous canvas draped in a sheet and showed it to me.• Some artists prefer the springy sensitivity of an open canvas whilst others prefer the hardness or smoothness of a board.• Painting on wall or canvas as dream of plenitude, painting on glass as revelation of potential in poverty.• This was not the fluid, precise canvas of the Cal victory.• He tried out the Helen Frankenthaler technique of staining raw canvas with diluted paint.• He had brought the canvas bag with him.• The man in the canvas chair threw his Daily Variety to the floor.

Origin canvas

(1300-1400) Old North French canevas, from Latin cannabis “hemp”

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