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