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词汇 picturing
释义 picturing
present participle ofpicture
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
fertility
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
reimagine
retheorization
retheorize
revisualization
riot
throw

Examples of picturing


picturing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Either way, both sides engage in deliberate reification and both gain by picturing the economy as largely abstracted from experience.
They are present and the dialogue between volume and void, shape as full and shape as empty, is crucial to the play of picturing.
Until about mid-century, picturing a man recumbent was a way to make him effeminate, a juxtaposition strikingly revealed in a political cartoon from roughly 1838.
Another way of picturing the mobility of servants is to look at their duration of stay with the same master.
For the rest we are dealing with religious ideas that affect group picturings.
It may thus be doubted whether these observations are sufficiently accurate for picturing the situation in 1993.
Super valuationism meets this requirement by picturing borderline propositions as being neither true nor false.
Cartwright dismisses the notion of representation as 'picturing' and suggests that models 'resemble the situation they represent' (p. 262).
This article explores the intellectual implications of picturing in a discipline that has thought of itself as preeminently about the use of words and their linear logics.
Landscape began as a device for 'picturing' the world and its spaces, and as such it is intrinsically a theatrical construct: it is the staging of a cultural fiction.
I was picturing to myself what happens in these cases.
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The clause, as drafted, could preclude naming the school and picturing the children because some of them might be witnesses at the forthcoming trial.
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There has been too much exaggeration in these discussions, too much picturing of hypothetical evils which have no real probability whatever.
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Picturing in one's mind the first allotment, its occupants appear to have met many vicissitudes and difficulties.
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It is impossible to think of one without picturing the other.
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