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picture

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Related topics: Visual
pic·ture1 /ˈpɪktʃə $ -ər/ ●●● S1 W1 noun  
1  painting/drawing 绘画 [countableC]AVPICTURE shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, showing what someone or something looks like 画，图画
 The room had several pictures on the walls.
那个房间墙上有几幅画。
 a book with pictures in it
带插图的书
picture of
 I like that picture of the two horses.
我喜欢那张有那两匹马的画。
draw/paint a/somebody’s picture
 Draw a picture of your house.
画一张你家的画吧。
 He asked her permission to paint her picture (=paint a picture of her).
他请求她允许为她画像。
2  photograph 照片 [countableC] a photograph 照片
picture of
 That’s a great picture of you, Dad!
你的那张照片拍得真好，爸爸！
take somebody’s picture/take a picture of somebody
 I asked the waiter if he’d mind taking our picture.
我问那个侍者是否能为我们拍张照。
wedding/holiday etc pictures
 Would you like to see the wedding pictures?
你要不要看看婚礼的照片？
3  television 电视 [countableC]TMT an image that appears on a television or cinema screen 〔电视或电影的〕图像，画面
picture of
 upsetting pictures of the famine in Africa
令人揪心的非洲饥荒画面
 satellite pictures from space
从太空拍摄的卫星图像
4  description/idea 描述/想法 [countableC usually singular]DESCRIBE a description or idea of what something is like 描述，描绘，描写
picture of
 The book gives you a good picture of what life was like in Japan in the early 19th century.
这本书生动地描绘了19世纪初叶日本人的生活。
 The article paints a rather bleak picture of the future of our planet.
本文将我们地球的未来描绘成一幅暗淡的画面。
 Detectives are trying to build up a picture of the kidnapper.
警探试图勾勒出绑匪的模样。
 The description in the guidebook showed rather a rosy picture (=one that makes you think that something is better than it really is).
指南中的描绘相当美好。
 I now have a vivid picture (=very clear picture) in my mind.
现在我脑海里有一幅清晰的画面了。
5  situation 情况 [singular]SITUATION the general situation in a place, organization etc 〔某地方、组织等的〕情况，局面
 The worldwide picture for tribal people remains grim.
全球各地部落民众的情况仍不容乐观。
 the wider political picture
更广阔的政治局面
 Checks throughout the region revealed a similar picture everywhere.
整个区域范围内的检查显示各地情况都差不多。
big/bigger/wider picture
 We were so caught up with the details, we lost sight of the big picture (=the situation considered as a whole).
我们过分专注于细节，因而忽视了全局。
6  mental image 头脑中的形象 [countableC usually singular]IDEA an image or memory that you have in your mind 〔脑中的〕形象；印象
7  put/keep somebody in the picture TELL/ORDER somebody TO DO somethingto give someone all the information they need to understand a situation, especially one that is changing quickly 使某人明白[了解]实情〔尤指迅速变化的情形〕
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put/keep somebody in the picture• Perhaps he did not like to argue with Jean-Claude, suspecting that my lover may have been put fully in the picture.• He put Maclean in the picture about his letter to Wilson.• Call it: putting you in the picture.• Then she remembered that she had promised to keep Sybil in the picture but decided that could wait as well.• Besides, I wanted to put you in the picture.
8  get the picture informalUNDERSTAND to understand a situation 了解情况
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get the picture• Designers get the picture John Bell Computer-aided design is a complex technology with complicated effects.• Oh, I get the picture. You're in love with Muriel, aren't you?• I get the picture. You want me to say you were at my house last night.• You're probably getting the picture by now - Russan is a typical product of the 80s.• She'd only been married to Gerald for eight months before I started getting the picture.• Now, however, it seems even the dimwitted Amphi staff is beginning to get the picture.• So the museum has gone to law to get the pictures back.• Substitute Vince McMahon with Mel Brooks and you start to get the picture.• We don't want any trouble tonight. Do you get the picture?
9  out of the picture TAKE PART/BE INVOLVEDif someone is out of the picture, they are no longer involved in a situation 退出的；不再知情的
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out of the picture• If you live long enough on South Vermont, you begin to feel not just excluded but out of the picture entirely.• Glen had told me she dropped out of the picture after the accident, but she might remember something from that period.• As Neta faded out of the picture, he faded in.• With Oliver Ingraham out of the picture, things would be as they should have been.• Sharif is out of the picture, unable to return for 10 years under his exile agreement.• Wedemeyer quickly proved that many of these troubles could be addressed with Stilwell out of the picture.• She walked out of the picture and then came back.• She kept walking out of the picture and coming back.
10  film 电影,影片
11  be the picture of health/innocence/despair etc APPEARANCEEXPRESSION ON somebody'S FACEto look very healthy etc 显得非常健康/天真/绝望等
12. be/look a picture to look beautiful 看起来很漂亮
→ pretty as a picture at pretty2(7)
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 1: shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, showing what someone or something looks like
verbs
draw/paint a picture
She drew a picture of a mushroom on the blackboard.
do a picture of somebody/something (=draw or paint a picture)
He’s done a picture of a monster.
a picture hangs somewhere
Three pictures hung on the wall over his bed.
a picture shows something formal
The picture shows two women leaning down towards a third.
a picture is of somebody/something (=used to talk about what a picture shows)
There's a picture of his wife above the fireplace.
n THESAURUS
picture shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, especially as a piece of art, and often showing what someone or something looks like
a picture of a horse
He painted the picture in 1890, just before he died.
drawing a picture drawn with a pencil, pen etc
We had to do a drawing of a sunflower.
sketch a picture that is drawn quickly
I made a quick sketch of the kind of room we wanted.
painting a picture made using paint
The painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art.
Picasso did several paintings of her.
portrait a picture of a person
The portrait was painted by Rembrandt.
landscape a picture of a place, especially in the countryside or the mountains
Constable painted mainly landscapes.
cartoon a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine that tells a story or a joke
A cartoon in the New York Times showed the president talking to Osama Bin Laden.
comic strip a series of pictures drawn inside boxes that tell a story
Charles Schultz was famous for his cartoon strip about Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
caricature a funny drawing of someone that makes a part of someone’s face or body look bigger, worse etc than it really is, especially in a funny way
He is famous for his caricatures of politicians.
illustration a picture in a book
The book has over 100 pages of illustrations, most of them in colour.
poster a large picture printed on paper that you stick to a wall as decoration
old movie posters
There were lots of posters of pop bands on her bedroom wall.
print a picture that is usually produced on a printing press, and is one of a series of copies of the same picture
a limited edition of lithographic prints by John Lennon
image a picture – used especially when talking about what the picture is like, or the effect it has on you
He produced some memorable images.
a beautiful image
Some of the images are deeply disturbing.
artwork pictures or photographs, especially ones that have been produced to be used in a book or magazine
We are still waiting for the artwork to come back from the printers.
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 4: a description or idea of what something is like
adjectives
a clear/good picture
He still didn’t have a clear picture of what had happened.
a vivid picture (=very clear)
Their diaries give us a vivid picture of their lives at the time.
an accurate/true picture
Our aim is to build an accurate picture of the needs of disabled people.
a distorted/misleading picture (=one that is not accurate)
The media coverage left many people with a distorted picture.
These figures give a misleading picture of the company’s financial health.
a detailed picture
We now have a detailed picture of the bird’s habits.
a complete/full picture
By asking these questions, I was able to get a more complete picture.
an overall/general picture
The study is intended to provide an overall picture of political activity in the nation.
a bleak/gloomy/grim picture (=giving the impression that something is or will be bad)
The report paints a bleak picture of the economy.
a rosy picture (=giving the impression that something is or will be good)
That figure paints a misleadingly rosy picture.
verbs
have a picture
I've never been there, but I have a picture of it in my mind.
a picture emerges (=becomes clear)
No clear picture emerges from the studies.
get a picture
Scientists have been trying to get a better picture of how the drug works.
build up/form a picture (=gradually get an idea of what something is like)
Detectives are still trying to build up a picture of what happened.
give/provide a picture
Her book gives us an interesting picture of ordinary people’s homes at the time.
present a picture
Newspapers tend to present a grim picture of what's going on in the world.
paint a picture (=create a particular idea or impression, especially one that is not accurate)
The latest survey paints a grim picture.
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picture• Pictures of her family covered the coffee table.• By the 1930s, Garbo was reportedly earning $250,000 a picture.• There was a picture of a windmill on the bedroom wall.• An alarming picture encapsulated a false belief.• After all this rigmarole, they were to write a story to fit the words and pictures they had chosen.• To get a better picture of how the company is doing, look at sales.• an early picture by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet• The media are merely the messengers, sometimes further sensationalizing and then passing along the false picture that has been painted.• Van Gogh's "Sunflowers' is one of the most famous pictures in the world.• They posed for pictures with him in the tunnel outside the clubhouse.• The house belonged to the Duke of Wellington, and his picture hangs in the hall.• Lee must win best foreign-language picture Oscar this spring-or indeed best picture.• I didn't know the word in Japanese so I drew a little picture.• Daisy did a lovely picture of a cat at school today.• My picture of Saja was correct only in the fact that he was a glutton.• Leo's picture is in the paper today.• The picture's all fuzzy.• I still have a vivid picture in my head of my first day in Paris.
draw/paint a/somebody’s picture• Of course it was him that had messed up his diary, drawing those stupid pictures in it.• Charlotte used water-colours, and often spent hours painting small pictures.• Other economic indicators, however, paint a gloomier picture.• Repeated commissions and zemstvo investigations drew a grim picture of peasant destitution and growing frustration.• However, we were able to obtain the results for 1989 through 1991, and they do not paint a pretty picture.• Divide the students in pairs and have them draw a picture of a crane.• They drew one picture after another.• In Arles, Vincent painted a picture based on memory of the parsonage garden at Etten.
wedding/holiday etc pictures• Many other themes came to mind when I started thinking about holiday pictures.• She has already altered her wedding pictures.• She hung these in the living room, near the wedding pictures.
big/bigger/wider picture• On the wall there was a big picture of Sir Anthony at the piano.• The politics of taxation was, and remains, only a small part of a much bigger picture.• Only a small blip in the big picture.• They see the details but miss the big picture.• To peruse the big picture, as it were.• That is the closing point; the biggest picture in the exhibition will be the finale.• No one in the boats has the luxury of seeing the big picture, of viewing Fuji majestic in the distance.
mental picture• They learn to let words create a mental picture and to then make a replica of their vision.• As they crossed Park Avenue, he had a mental picture of what an ideal pair they made.• She had a mental picture of Samuel Roberts' fine, hard face.• Somewhere between the event and the sentence is a mental picture.• Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton.• This is in order to provide the reader with a mental picture of the house as the technical options are discussed.• They make a funny mental picture because she is so short and he is so tall, just for starters.• Disappointment followed, the lurid projector of mental pictures shut down and I was left feeling I ought to have known better.
Related topics: Visual
picture2 ●●○ verb [transitiveT]  
1  IMAGINEto imagine something by making an image in your mind 想象，设想
2  AVPICTUREto show someone or something in a photograph, painting, or drawing 拍摄；画，绘
3  DESCRIBEto describe something in a particular way 描绘，描述
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picture• Whichever, it seems that Arsenio isn't quite the sort of cultural diplomat I had optimistically pictured.• Both pictured a glamorous brunette, at least a dozen years older than herself.• When a child learns to picture and verbalize his feelings, he has the opportunity to reason and make intelligent choices.• They have been pictured as the ultimate wealth of the community.• I can still picture her lovely brown eyes.• I pictured her trying to eke out her money - for I was sure there was not much.• I had never met Graham but I pictured him as a pale, thin young man wearing glasses.• He wrote that it was not as he had pictured it as the weather was bitterly cold and wet with some snow.• Can you picture it? Lying in the sun, sipping cocktails -- it would be paradise!• I pictured myself picking at least three hundred pounds a day and took the job.• It is frighteningly easy to picture our children bald-gummed, big-headed as the babies they sprang out of.• Miguel could still picture the children laughing and joking, and chasing each other around the garden.
picture somebody/something as something• I can't picture Jay as a ballet dancer.
be pictured as something• Both the Minoan Goddess and Artemis were pictured as bees.• He is pictured as going down into the deep which now is a symbol of judgment.• Faith is pictured as the absence of doubt and the man of faith as the man with no doubts.• They are pictured as virtually irredeemable, lazy, dependent, living off the hard-earned money of others.
Origin picture1
(1400-1500) Latin pictura, from pictus, past participle of pingere “to paint”
pic·ture1 noun →n COLLOCATIONS1 →n COLLOCATIONS2
→n THESAURUS1picture2 verb →n GRAMMAR1 →n GRAMMAR2
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