picture

• n. 照片，图画；影片；景色；化身
• vt. 画；想像；描写

来自拉丁语pictus,图画的，来自pingere,绘制，画图，来自PIE*peig,砍，切，词源同paint.

1. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;

"they showed us the pictures of their wedding"

"a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"

2. graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface;

"a small painting by Picasso"

"he bought the painting as an investment"

"his pictures hang in the Louvre"

3. a clear and telling mental image;

"he described his mental picture of his assailant"

"he had no clear picture of himself or his world"

"the events left a permanent impression in his mind"

4. a situation treated as an observable object;

"the political picture is favorable"

"the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"

5. illustrations used to decorate or explain a text;

"the dictionary had many pictures"

6. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;

"they went to a movie every Saturday night"

"the film was shot on location"

7. the visible part of a television transmission;

"they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"

8. a graphic or vivid verbal description;

"too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"

"the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"

"the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"

9. a typical example of some state or quality;

"the very picture of a modern general"

"she was the picture of despair"

picture

picture: [15] Picture and paint are very closely related. The Latin verb pingere ‘paint’ was the source of English paint, and its past participial stem pict- produced a noun, pictūra ‘painting’, which was eventually to become English picture. The same source produced English depict [17] and Pict [OE] (etymologically the ‘painted’ or ‘tattooed’ people), while its ultimate ancestor, the Indo-European base *pik-, *pig- ‘cut’, also evolved Latin pigmentum ‘colouring substance’, from which English got pigment [14] and, via Spanish, pimento [17].
=> depict, paint, pigment, pimento

picture (n.)

early 15c., "drawing, painting," from Latin pictura "painting," from pictus, past participle of pingere "to make pictures, to paint, to embroider," (see paint (v.)). Picture window is from 1938. Picture post-card first recorded 1899. Phrase every picture tells a story first attested 1900, in advertisements for an illustrated life of Christ. To be in (or out of) the picture in the figurative sense dates to 1900.

Expression a picture is worth a thousand words, attested from 1918, probably was from the publication trade (the notion that a picture was worth 1,000 words is in printers' publications by 1911). The phrase also was in use in the form worth a million words, the form used by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane (1864-1936) in an editorial much-read c. 1916 titled "What is a Good Newspaper" in the "New York Evening Journal." In part it read, "After news and humor come good pictures. In this day of hurry we learn through the eye, and one picture may be worth a million words." It seems to have emerged into general use via the medium of advertising (which scaled down the number and also gave the expression its spurious origin story as "a Japanese proverb" or some such thing, by 1919). Earlier various acts or deeds (and in one case "the arrow") were said to be worth a thousand words.

picture (v.)

late 15c. in the literal sense; 1738 in the mental sense, from picture (n.). Related: Pictured; picturing.

cinema, film, movie, picture

这些名词均有"电影"之意。

cinema与the连用指(上映的)电影，电影工业；可指电影院；在英国与the连用还可指电影艺术。

film： 指电影、影片，普通用词。

movie： 美国英语中的口语用词。

picture： 从原义指银幕或电视屏幕上的图像引申指影片。

describe, represent, sketch, picture

这些动词均有"描写，描述"之意。

describe： 侧重指描述细节，给读者或听众提供清晰的视觉图像。

represent： 指有代表性或象征性地描述或讲述。

sketch： 指快速地勾勒或概略地叙述。

picture： 着重能够栩栩如生地把事物或场景等描绘出来。

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。

Life Reimagined paints a picture of middle age that is far from gloomy.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

For most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The important thing is for all of us to keep in mind the real goal and the longer, bigger picture.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

A reasonable assumption—don't families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can't? In the initial results, assisted living residents did paint the most positive picture.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

When employees log in to their computers, they're shown a picture of one of their coworkers and asked to guess that person's name.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home, we're not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

However, the basic picture is there from the beginning.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Identify the suspect from pictures.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

But it is also important to look at the wider picture of what happens when so many people live for 100 years.

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

In the initial results, assisted living residents did paint the most positive picture.

2016年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

life Reimagined paints a picture of middle age that is far from gloomy.

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

Nonetheless, physicians say that they look at the collective data and a clear picture emerges: that the salt, sugar, fat and processed foods in the American diet contribute to the nation's high rate of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

The researchers gathered 150 years of ocean temperature data in order to get a better picture of heat absorption from surface to seabed.

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

The don’ts can be self-fulfilling because your mind response to pictures.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

The report warnsthe picture on wages is likely to get worse this year despite indications of an economic rebound.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

The picture worsens with each round of El Nino, the unusually warm currents in the Pacific Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage (预示) droughts and fires in the rain forest.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Picture a typical MBA lecture theatre twenty years ago.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

This is then coupled to a school's picture of what a diverse class should look like, with the result that passport, ethnic origin and sex can all become influencing factors

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Self-image is the picture you have of yourself, the sort of person you believe you are.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

But self-image is more than how you picture yourself; it also involves how others see you

出自-2013年6月听力原文

You know I've often wondered why people laugh at the picture of a big belly businessman slipping on a banana skin and falling on his bottom.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Try this: Take a photo and upload it to Facebook, then after a day or so, note what the URL link to the picture is and then delete it.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

How the pictures will turn out.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Why the pictures are not ready

出自-2010年12月听力原文

The pictures we took at the botanical garden should be ready tomorrow.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Researchers at Cambridge University have found that nearly half of the social networking sites don't immediately delete pictures when a user requests they be removed

出自-2010年12月听力原文

But then when you see a picture, the idea finally clicks?

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

I told her to create a picture of what self-assured would look like.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

Last summer, Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocate John Smith launched Big Picture Beef, a network of small grass-fed beef farms in New England and New York that is projected to bring to market 2,500 head of cattle from 125 producers this year.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

The report warns the picture on wages is likely to get worse this year despite indications of an economic rebound.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

Thus, our picture of Venus at around the time life was getting started on Earth is one of warm oceans, probably rich with organic molecules, splashing around rocky shores and volcanic vents.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Yet in the years following the publication of this study, Steinberg began to believe that this interpretation did not capture the whole picture.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

A graph gives the reader a picture to interpret.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Again, not a move, the next time, I had my camera ready to record what you see here, one of several dozen such pictures, so long as she had a slice to eat, she never bothered the one on her head.

2015年高考英语四川卷 完形填空 原文

Big ideas for little kids includes everything a teacher, a parent or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Every page is full of pictures; you just have to read the words to see them.

2016年高考英语四川卷 完形填空 原文

Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding―undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism―if they had been made last week.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

He spent much of his childhood in France where he spent many hours each day outdoors painting pictures.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

His black-and-white pictures present a world almost lost in time.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

I ran my fingers over the picture of the dog on the cover.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

I'd skipped nearby Guilin, a dream place for tourists seeking the limestone mountain tops and dark waters of the Li river which are pictured by artists in so many Chinese paintings.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

If you studied pictures that ancient people left on rock walls and you tried to determine their meaning, you would not detect a deep interest in romance among the artists.

2015年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

It contained pretty pictures of animals.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

It presented a picture of a beagle.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Looking at the beef being cooked on the stove, the mother pictured the whole family having meals together.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 句子填空 原文

Now, in the second picture, you can see how tea is tasted in the tea trade center before it is sold.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

Right after Erin took possession of my wallet on the bus, she posted a picture of my driver's license to an online forum, trying to see if anyone knew me.

2019年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Take your family pictures and deliver milk.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

The film classic the last picture show was the last movie shown in the old theater.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

These pictures show people seemingly pushed into a world that they were unprepared for.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

These were the first pictures and first real paint and brushes Benjamin had ever seen.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

com, which allow users to combine pictures, words and other media in creative ways and then share them, have the potential to add stickiness by amusing, entertaining and enlightening others.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

It allows us to have perspective on our lives - the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out.

出自-2016年考研翻译原文

With characteristic confidence, Dickens successfully insisted that Seymour’s pictures illustrate his own story instead.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

Although electric cars are still a rarity on roads now, this massive investment could change the picture rapidly in coming years.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But Dr Uri Simonsohn speculated that an inability to consider the big picture was leading decision-makers to be biased by the daily samples of information they were working with.

2013年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

However, there is another important part of the jobs picture that was largely overlooked.

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In a final experiment, participants who were encouraged to predict how they would feel after viewing an unpleasant picture were less likely to choose to see such an image.

2018年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Knowing the results of Epley's study, it makes sense that many people hate photographs of themselves viscerally—on one level, they don't even recognize the person in the picture as themselves.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

When we look at a face or a picture, our eyes pause on one spot at a time, often on the eyes or mouth.

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

A picture of flowers hung on the wall.

墙上挂着一张花卉的图画。

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The children were drawing pictures of their pets.

孩子们在画他们的宠物。

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She wanted a famous artist to paint her picture (= a picture of herself) .

她想请一位名画家为自己画像。

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a book with lots of pictures in it

一本有大量插图的书

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We had our picture taken in front of the hotel.

我们在旅馆前照了相。

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The picture shows the couple together on their yacht.

照片显示这对情侣一同在他们的游艇上。

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A picture of Rory O'Moore hangs in the dining room at Kildangan.

一幅罗里·奥穆尔的画像挂在基尔丹根的餐厅里。

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...drawing a small picture with coloured chalks.

用彩色粉笔画一张小画

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The tourists have nothing to do but take pictures of each other...

游客无事可做，只能互相拍照。

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The Observer carries a big front-page picture of rioters in a litter-strewn street.

《观察家报》在头版刊登了一张暴乱者聚集在满是垃圾的街头的大幅照片。

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...heartrending television pictures of human suffering.

令人心碎的人类遭受苦难的电视画面

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The golfer is pictured on many of the front pages, kissing his trophy as he holds it aloft.

许多报纸的头版上都刊登了那个高尔夫球手高高举起奖杯亲吻的照片。

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...a woman who claimed she had been pictured dancing with a celebrity in Stringfellows nightclub...

宣称自己在斯特林费洛夜总会和某位名人跳舞的照片上了报纸的女子

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Warner Communications Inc. has refused to distribute the picture in the United States.

华纳通信公司已拒绝在美国发行这部电影。

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...a director of epic action pictures.

史诗动作片的导演

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We're going to the pictures tonight...

我们今晚要去看电影。

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I'd rather see it at the pictures than on video anyway.

我本来就宁可去电影院看，而不是看录像。

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They have in their mind a picture of what an alcoholic should look like...

他们的心中有一个酒鬼应有的样子。

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We are just trying to get our picture of the whole afternoon straight...

我们只是想把整个下午的情形搞清楚。

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He pictured her with long black braided hair...

他想象她留着黑油油的长辫子的样子。

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I never would have pictured this as her home...

我怎么也想不出她的家会是这样。

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I'll try and give you a better picture of what the boys do...

我会试着更清楚地向你描述一下这些男孩子都干些什么。

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Her book paints a bleak picture of the problems women now face...

她的书是女性当下所面临问题的凄凉写照。

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But as with other charitable bodies, these figures mask the true picture...

但和其他慈善机构一样，这些数字掩盖了实情。

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It's a similar picture across the border in Ethiopia.

在边界那边的埃塞俄比亚，情况也大致相似。

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Luke never tells you the whole story, but you always get the picture.

卢克从不告诉你事情的来龙去脉，但你总会弄明白是怎么回事。

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Meyerson is back in the picture after disappearing in July...

迈耶森在7月份消失后现在又掺和了进来了。

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Sometimes security was so tight that people who might have had something important to offer were left out of the picture.

有时安全措施过于严密，使本来可能会提供重要情况的人成了局外人。

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We found her standing on a chair, the picture of terror, screaming hysterically.

我们发现她站在一把椅子上，满脸恐惧地发出歇斯底里的尖叫。

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Has Inspector Fayard put you in the picture?

法亚尔督察把情况都告诉你了吗？

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