新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

picture

英 [ˈpɪktʃə]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

pictures
1. [C 可数名词] 图画
A picture consists of lines and shapes that are drawn, painted, or printed on a surface and show a person, thing, or scene.
双语例句
例：
drawing a small picture with coloured chalk.
用彩色粉笔画一幅小画。
2. [C 可数名词] 照片
A picture is a photograph.
双语例句
例：
The tourists have nothing to do but take pictures of each other.
游客们无事可做，只有相互拍照。
3. [C 可数名词] （电视）画面
Television pictures are the scenes that you see on a television screen.
双语例句
例：
heartrending television pictures of human suffering.
令人心碎的人类受难的电视画面。
4. [C 可数名词] 电影
You can refer to a film as a picture.
双语例句
例：
a director of epic action pictures.
一位大制作动作片的导演。
5. [C 可数名词] （头脑中的）影像
If you have a picture of something in your mind, you have a clear idea or memory of it in your mind as if you were actually seeing it.
近义词
image
双语例句
例：
We are just trying to get our picture of the whole afternoon straight.
我们正努力在脑海中理清整个下午的情景。
6. [C 可数名词] 描述
A picture of something is a description of it or an indication of what it is like.
双语例句
例：
I'll try and give you a better picture of what the boys do.
我会尽力把这些男孩做了什么给你描述清楚。
7. [SING 单数型名词] 局面 , 情况
When you refer to the picture in a particular place, you are referring to the situation there.
近义词
situation
双语例句
例：
It's a similar picture across the border in Ethiopia.
边界另一边的埃塞俄比亚也是类似的局面。

PHRASE. 习语

in the picture , out of the picture
1. 在或不在其中
If you say that someone is in the picture, you mean that they are involved in the situation that you are talking about. If you say that they are out of the picture, you mean that they are not involved in the situation you are talking about.
双语例句
例：
Meyerson is back in the picture after disappearing in July.
继7月份失踪后，迈耶森又回来了。。
例：
His dad had been out of the picture since he was eight.
从八岁起，他爸爸就再没和他联系过。
put someone in the picture
1. 使…了解内情
If you put someone in the picture, you tell them about a situation which they need to know about.
双语例句
例：
Has anyone put you in the picture?
有人告诉你内情了吗？

VERB. 动词

pictures , picturing , pictured
1. [T 及物动词] （在报纸、杂志上）登载照片
To be pictured somewhere, for example, in a newspaper or magazine, means to appear in a photograph or picture.
双语例句
例：
The golfer is pictured on many of the front pages, kissing his trophy as he holds it aloft.
这位高尔夫球手高举奖杯亲吻的照片被刊登在许多报纸的头版上。
例：
a woman who claimed she had been pictured dancing with a celebrity in a nightclub.
一位声称自己和一位名人在夜总会跳舞的照片被刊登的女人。
2. [T 及物动词] 想象
If you picture something in your mind, you think of it and have such a clear memory or idea of it that you seem to be able to see it.
近义词
imagine
双语例句
例：
He pictured her with long black braided hair.
他想象她扎着长长的黑麻花辫。
例：
He pictured Carrie sitting out in the car, waiting for him.
他想象卡丽正坐在外面的车里等他。