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词汇 picture
释义 picture
noun
uk /ˈpɪk.tʃər/ us /ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/

picturenoun (IMAGE)


A1[ C ]
a drawing, painting, photograph, etc.: 画,图画;照片
Freddy drew/painted a picture of my dog.弗雷迪给我的狗画了一张像。
We took a picture of (= photographed) the children on their new bicycles.我们拍了一张孩子们骑新自行车的照片.
I hate having my picture taken (= being photographed).我不喜欢被人拍照。
Synonyms
illustration(PICTURE)
image(PICTURE)
B2[ C ]
an image seen on a television or cinema screen: (电视或电影的)图像,画面
We can't get a clear picture.我们看不到清晰的画面。
B1[ C ]
a film: 电影
Could this be the first animated movie to win a best picture award?这会是第一部赢得最佳电影奖的动画片吗?
 the pictures[ plural ]old-fashioned
the cinema: 电影院
Let's go to the pictures tonight.今晚我们去看电影吧。
B2[ C ]
something you produce in your mind, by using your imagination or memory: (头脑中的)形象;想象;印象
I have a very vivid picture of the first time I met Erik.我清楚地记得第一次遇见埃里克的情景。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to imagine something
imagineYou can just imagine her storing up these anecdotes for her dinner parties.
think ofI want you to think of a time when you felt happy.
pictureCan you picture yourself at the age of 60 doing what you do now?
pictureWhen I say 'your car' you have a picture of that in your head.
in your mind's eyeIn my mind's eye, I'm still a uni student and not a middle-aged worker.
conceiveI can't conceive why anyone would want to hurt her.
She cut out his picture from the magazine.她从杂志上剪下他的照片。
There was a picture of the Trevi fountain on the front of the book.书的封面上有一张特里威喷泉的图片。
Take a look at this picture and see if you recognize anyone.
This TV gives a very sharp picture.这台电视机图像非常清晰。
All these pictures were painted by local artists.所有这些画都是当地画家画的。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Photography
aerial photograph
airbrush
analogue
aperture
backlight
backlighting
expose
ghost image
ghosting
glossy
golden hour
grainy
halation
pap
photojournalism
photojournalist
photoshoot
pic
PillCam
projection

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Pictures
Cinema - general words
Imagining and conceiving

picturenoun (IDEA)


B2[ S ]
(an idea of) a situation: 情况;局面;事态
After watching the news, I had a clearer picture of what was happening.看完新闻后,我进一步了解了当时发生的情况。
The picture emerging in reports from the battlefield is one of complete confusion.据报道,战场上的局面一片混乱。
[ S ]
a situation described in a particular way: 描述,描绘;描写
figurativeThe experts are painting a gloomy/brighter/rosy picture of the state of the economy.专家们把经济状况描绘得很阴暗/日趋光明/非常乐观。
This report gives a global picture of the company's finances.这份报告对公司的整体财务状况作了说明。
He painted a rosy picture of family life.
She paints a gloomy picture of the future.
I suspect she gave a true picture of what had happened.
There are, however, one or two items of good news to brighten the economic picture a bit.然而,总会有一两条好消息让人对经济前景有些希望。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Situations and circumstances
background
busyness
circumstance
circumstances beyond someone's control
climate
comedy of errors
condition
farce
financial affairs
footing
landscape
matrix
practicality
scheme
situation
situational
the scheme of thingsidiom
under any circumstances
under no circumstances
under the circumstances

Idioms


be a picture
be the picture of health, innocence, etc.
every picture tells a story
get the picture
keep someone in the picture
out of the picture
put someone in the picture
someone's face is a picture
picture
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈpɪk.tʃər/ us /ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/
C1
to imagine something: 想象,设想
Picture the scene - the crowds of people and animals, the noise, the dirt.想象一下那个场景——拥挤的行人和牲口、喧闹声、尘土。
[ + -ing verb ]Try to picture yourself lying on a beach in the hot sun.设想一下自己在炙热的阳光下躺在海滩上。
[ + question word ]Picture to yourself how terrible that day must have been.你自己想象一下那天有多糟糕。
formalHe was pictured (= an artist had painted him)as a soldier in full uniform.他被画成一名全身戎装的士兵。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to imagine something
imagineYou can just imagine her storing up these anecdotes for her dinner parties.
think ofI want you to think of a time when you felt happy.
pictureCan you picture yourself at the age of 60 doing what you do now?
pictureWhen I say 'your car' you have a picture of that in your head.
in your mind's eyeIn my mind's eye, I'm still a uni student and not a middle-aged worker.
conceiveI can't conceive why anyone would want to hurt her.
I pictured myself relaxing by the pool.
Can you picture yourselves living in the country?
He smiled to himself as he pictured the scene.
If you could try to picture how difficult life was in those days, you'll understand more.
I'd pictured him as much older.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Imagining and conceiving
assume
beyond your wildest dreamsidiom
blue-sky
cognitive map
conceivable
fancy
guess
imagine
impute something to someone
in your mind's eyeidiom
inconceivably
lay the foundation(s) of/foridiom
look on/upon someone/something as something
regard
retheorization
retheorize
revisualization
riot
run riotidiom
throw

picture | American Dictionary


picture
noun
us/ˈpɪk·tʃər/

picturenoun (REPRESENTATION)


[ C ]
a representation of someone or something produced by drawing, painting, or photographing:
He drew/painted a picture of my dog.
Brian takes lots of pictures (= photographs).
[ C ]
A picture is also an image seen on a television or movie screen:
It’s an old set, and the picture is a little fuzzy.
[ C ]
A picture is also a movie:
It won an Academy Award for best picture.

picturenoun (DESCRIPTION)


[ C/U ]
a description of a situation, or the situation itself:
[ C ]Do news reports give an accurate picture of events?
[ U ]They’re looking at individuals and not at the overall picture.
[ U ]Don’t say any more – I get the picture (= understand the situation).
[ U ]Marilyn’s mother more or less stayed out of the picture (= was not involved).
[ C/U ]
To paint a picture is to describe a situation:
[ C ]The statistics do not paint an optimistic picture.

Idiom


the picture of something
picture
verb[ T ]
us/ˈpɪk·tʃər/

pictureverb[T] (REPRESENTATION)


to imagine how something looks:
Try to picture yourself lying on a beach in the hot sun.

picture | Business English


picture
noun
uk /ˈpɪktʃər/us
[ S ]
an idea about what is happening in a particular situation:
a picture of sthThey conducted a survey to get a better picture of their customers' needs.
a clear/complete/accurate pictureIt is difficult to get an accurate picture of value.
a gloomy/grim/rosy pictureThe economic picture that the prime minister painted was fairly gloomy.
 the big picture
the whole situation, as opposed to particular parts of it:
see/look at the big pictureThe board needs to look at the bigger picture when taking investment decisions.
It's important not to lose sight of the big picture.
The bigger picture shows a growing divide in the market between the wealthy and the poor.
 keep/put sb in the picture
to make sure someone knows all the facts about a situation that is changing:
We keep shareholders in the picture with our annual reports.
 out of the picture
not part of or involved in a particular situation:
With overtime out of the picture, many of the workers will struggle to survive.

Examples of picture


picture
Placing and orientation of the camera for taking the pictures followed the same method as described for 38-mm photographs.
Therefore, it is possible that homonyms would be responded to more accurately than novel words in a task emphasizing lexical representations, such as picture naming.
Indeed, representations in the brain are not thought by visual neuroscientists to be point-by-point picture-like representations.
The network contains one kind of picture which describes sample paths characteristics.
The picture for each target word appeared on the screen in a random order different from the order used during the learning phase.
The children were told they would be shown two pictures, and that the experimenter would say a description of one of the pictures.
The theoretical implication is that to ignore political culture in measuring and analysing state/society interaction could give a misleading picture.
Should other dependent reasons enter the picture, then it is not at all clear that the (normal) goal of arbitration would be thwarted.
While there may be some truth in each of these suggestions, none of them reveals the whole picture.
It was also necessary to ensure that for each picture there were sufficient words selected to describe the events.
In some triplets, number was held constant across all three pictures when gender was targeted and gender was held constant when number was targeted.
It should be noted, however, that a biased picture may have been produced by the selection of household tasks included in the survey.
Following completion of the first story episode, the referent identification and picture-naming tasks were re-administered.
Patients' strong performance in word/picture matching tasks even in "impaired" categories may provide evidence for the causal link hypothesis.
Thus, m-reflexives include a subset of picture noun reflexives.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withpicture


picture

These are words often used in combination with picture.

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accurate picture
Every effort is made to present an accurate picture of seventeenth-century life - from outward appearances to the innermost beliefs of both cultures.
big picture
The analysis of political change manages to be subtle and detailed without losing sight of the big picture.
clear picture
Some respondents painted a clear picture of the way in which not having children led to problems.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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