illustration

• n. 说明；插图；例证；图解

来自illustrate,解释，阐明。引申词义实例，插图等。

1. artwork that helps make something clear or attractive

2. showing by example

3. an item of information that is representative of a type;

"this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"

"there is an example on page 10"

4. a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand

illustration (n.)

c. 1400, "a shining;" early 15c., "a manifestation;" mid-15c., "a spiritual illumination," from Old French illustration "apparition, appearance," and directly from Latin illustrationem (nominative illustratio) "vivid representation" (in writing), literally "an enlightening," from past participle stem of illustrare "light up, make light, illuminate;" figuratively "make clear, disclose, explain; adorn, render distinguished," from assimilated form of in- "in" (see in- (2)) + lustrare "make bright, illuminate," related to lucere "shine," lux "light" (see light (n.)). Mental sense of "act of making clear in the mind" is from 1580s. Meaning "an illustrative picture" is from 1816.

drawing, illustration, cartoon, diagram, picture, sketch, painting, portrait

这些名词都表示"画，图"之意。

drawing： 指用线条或色彩绘成的图画。

illustration： 指插入书页之间帮助说明的任何插图或图解。

cartoon： 指幽默或讽刺性漫画。

diagram： 多指科技书籍或文献中具有概括解说作用的图表、图样或略图。

picture： 指广义的"图画"，现多用来指相片、画像。

sketch： 通常指只画出物体主要特征的图画。

painting： 指着色的画。

portrait： 指肖像，只用于指人。

example, instance, case, sample, illustration, specimen

这些名词均有"例子，事例"之意。

example： 普通用词，指能代表同类事物性质或一般规律的典型例子。

instance： 多指用于说明、支持或反证一般事实或理论的事例。

case： 多指需要加以认真研究的实例，如病例，案例等。

sample： 通常指样品。

illustration： 指用来说明、解释某种理论或看法而引用的例证。

specimen可与sample换用，但常指人或物中选出的有代表性部分，或指供科研、化验或检验用的标本。

Let me, by way of illustration , quote from one of her poems.

作为说明，让我援引她的一首诗。

牛津词典

The statistics are a clear illustration of the point I am trying to make.

这些统计数字清楚地阐明了我要陈述的要点。

牛津词典

50 full-colour illustrations

50张全彩色插图

牛津词典

the art of book illustration

书籍插图的艺术

牛津词典

She looked like a princess in a nineteenth-century illustration.

她看起来像19世纪插图读物中的公主。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

英国吸收借鉴外来影响的绝好例证

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The following illustration shows a similar transformation applied to a photographic image.

下面的插图显示应用到照片图像的类似变换.

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And have listed these antonyms through simple illustration to out.

并把这些反义词通过简单例证列了出来.

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This illustration shows a vertical section through the locust.

本图所示为蝗虫的纵剖面.

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An example is given for illustration.

并以一范例举例说明.

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Figure 1.4 is a simplified illustration of how instructions are represented inside a computer.

图1.4简单示意了——在计算机内部,指令是如何被表示的.

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And as an illustration, the risk levels of flood control capacity for some reaches are computed.

并以实例计算了某河段防洪能力的风险度.

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I designed this illustration to commemorate our victory of War of Resistance Against Japan.

我完成这幅作品的那一天是9月18日,以此纪念抗日战争胜利,鄙视日本右翼激进分子.

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Go straight to the experts for an introductory course in book illustration.

为书例证的介绍课程直接去找专家.

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The following illustration shows the original apple and the scaled, cropped apple.

下面的插图显示原始苹果和缩放 、 裁切后的苹果.

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The illustration illuminates the demonstrating Democrat's penetrating strategy.

图解阐明了正在示威的民主党党员的渗透策略.

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At last, an illustration in the understanding instance of indirect directive speech act is explained.

最后通过一个具体例子演示了这种理解过程.

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We present a simplified illustration to show the flow of product costs.

现举一个简例来表述产品成本流程.

辞典例句

This paper briefly introduced the development history of powder coatings and finish , We give some illustration.

对粉末涂料与涂装的发展历史作了简要的介绍.

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This illustration shows that customers play a significant role in defining requirements as inputs.

这种展示反映了组织在确定输入要求时顾客起着重要的作用.

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He just cited a farfetched illustration.

他举的例证有些勉强.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Run length encoding: One of the techniques used in the data compression of illustration scan files.

运行长度编码: 应用于图形和扫描档案的一种数据压缩技术.

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Would you like to illustration of those procedures?

大家是否想看这些操作步骤的图示?

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And then you should insert your cash card as shown in the illustration on the machine.

然后按照机器屏幕的显示说明,把您的卡插入.

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The superb external condition of the engine is clearly apparent from the illustration.

图示清楚地显示了发动机超好的外部条件.

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He used photographs as illustration for his talk.

他用照片为他的演讲作图片说明.

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The Chinese container ports network is studied and its scale structure is analyzed in the illustration.

并对中国集装箱港口网络的规模结构进行了均衡研究,并分析的港口市场的结构性矛盾.

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By way of illustration I'll refer to the behavior of rabbits.

我将举例说明兔子的行为.

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