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词汇 photogenic
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Definition of photogenic in English:

photogenic

adjective ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)ˈdʒiːnɪkˌfəʊtə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪkˌfoʊdəˈdʒɛnɪk
  • 1(especially of a person) looking attractive in photographs or on film.

    (尤指人)上照的,上镜头的

    a photogenic child

    上照的孩子。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A cast of characters - including two photogenic victims, the heartbroken families, the detectives and, most oddly, the killer and his accomplice - had been introduced as they are in every Miss Marple.
    • Even though I've spent years of my life making other people look their best for photo ops, I myself am probably one of the least photogenic people in the western hemisphere.
    • Both are suitable for film, and the authors are incredibly photogenic, full of soulful, moody presence.
    • The dandyish and photogenic candidate regularly upstaged most of the other contenders in the name of art.
    • I just figured, look, I'm not photogenic anyway, so this'll just be a little worse.
    • Well, I'll tell you, he's got quite a photogenic family.
    • I want to see mummy serving cold baked beans to her photogenic children in their neatly fortified basement, as they listen to the radio for news of daddy.
    • In a 45-minute harangue in Brussels, flanked by a group of photogenic women bodyguards, he will have caused anxiety to those who have welcomed him back to the fold.
    • We were very photogenic, apparently, as we seemed to attract many people with cameras as we congregated in one spot.
    • If you've seen the Merchants of Cool, conventional wisdom is that popular, photogenic people will always be cool and what kids will hope to attain.
    • The photogenic couple, who first met on the set of the film Alfie, are now celebrating with a holiday in the Seychelles.
    • A furniture salesman from Delaware, he has joined his older and more photogenic brother for the European leg of this promotional tour.
    • Despite her perfect bone structure and newly svelte frame, she is not the most photogenic celebrity in the business, often appearing hard and overly made-up in videos and photoshoots.
    • Yet he is reasonably photogenic, cutting a dapper figure in a Western business suit.
    • Sometimes the less striking, less photogenic fellows can put one over their richer contemporaries.
    • Kate's really an amazing person in that she does understand the camera and she is photogenic and she understands what it's like to be photographed so I do have big range of photographs of Kate.
    • A highly photogenic person, Rukmini has been captured at her best, both as a dancer and as a beautiful woman who wore her collection of temple jewellery like a princess.
    • Sharapova is just 17, and to go along with it, she is also the most photogenic person to appear on a tennis court in years.
    • Since then, the girl had believed she was not photogenic and gradually developed an inferiority complex.
    • Don't know whether people noticed, but the girl who played Summer, the annoying blonde cheerleader, is Hayley Duff, Hilary's slightly less photogenic sister.
  • 2Biology
    (of an organism or tissue) producing or emitting light.

    〔生〕(生物体,组织)发光的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The ventral, or photogenic layer is the source of the light and is our concern here.
    • The photogenic tissue is composed of four cell types each with distinctive morphology which suggests their function.

Derivatives

  • photogenically

  • adverb
    • A classic was the well-fed Ojukwu's use of his photogenically starving children to generate sympathy during the Biafran war.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • To collect tissue samples for the genetic project, I return to the Pennsylvania woods in late summer with John Cancalosi, a nature photographer who has decided that snakes are, photogenically, ‘the new birds.’
      • I'd seen it browsing photogenically in an opening where the spring fed stream comes into the marsh, with that sweet evening light hitting it just so.
      • But the clashes between mutants of varying capabilities make for excellent fight scenes, the climactic one occurring, both photogenically and symbolically, atop the Statue of Liberty.
      • Lizzie has other ideas, however, and before long she's cavorting photogenically with Paolo, a sort of junior Enrique Iglesias who talks her into impersonating another famous musician.

Rhymes

anthropogenic, arsenic, autogenic, callisthenic (US calisthenic), carcinogenic, cariogenic, cryogenic, erotogenic, eugenic, fennec, hallucinogenic, Hellenic, hypo-allergenic, pyrogenic, radiogenic, schizophrenic, telegenic

Definition of photogenic in US English:

photogenic

adjectiveˌfoʊdəˈdʒɛnɪkˌfōdəˈjenik
  • 1(especially of a person) looking attractive in photographs or on film.

    (尤指人)上照的,上镜头的

    a photogenic child

    上照的孩子。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sometimes the less striking, less photogenic fellows can put one over their richer contemporaries.
    • If you've seen the Merchants of Cool, conventional wisdom is that popular, photogenic people will always be cool and what kids will hope to attain.
    • Both are suitable for film, and the authors are incredibly photogenic, full of soulful, moody presence.
    • I want to see mummy serving cold baked beans to her photogenic children in their neatly fortified basement, as they listen to the radio for news of daddy.
    • In a 45-minute harangue in Brussels, flanked by a group of photogenic women bodyguards, he will have caused anxiety to those who have welcomed him back to the fold.
    • Despite her perfect bone structure and newly svelte frame, she is not the most photogenic celebrity in the business, often appearing hard and overly made-up in videos and photoshoots.
    • The dandyish and photogenic candidate regularly upstaged most of the other contenders in the name of art.
    • Even though I've spent years of my life making other people look their best for photo ops, I myself am probably one of the least photogenic people in the western hemisphere.
    • A furniture salesman from Delaware, he has joined his older and more photogenic brother for the European leg of this promotional tour.
    • Don't know whether people noticed, but the girl who played Summer, the annoying blonde cheerleader, is Hayley Duff, Hilary's slightly less photogenic sister.
    • Since then, the girl had believed she was not photogenic and gradually developed an inferiority complex.
    • Well, I'll tell you, he's got quite a photogenic family.
    • A highly photogenic person, Rukmini has been captured at her best, both as a dancer and as a beautiful woman who wore her collection of temple jewellery like a princess.
    • Yet he is reasonably photogenic, cutting a dapper figure in a Western business suit.
    • We were very photogenic, apparently, as we seemed to attract many people with cameras as we congregated in one spot.
    • A cast of characters - including two photogenic victims, the heartbroken families, the detectives and, most oddly, the killer and his accomplice - had been introduced as they are in every Miss Marple.
    • Kate's really an amazing person in that she does understand the camera and she is photogenic and she understands what it's like to be photographed so I do have big range of photographs of Kate.
    • Sharapova is just 17, and to go along with it, she is also the most photogenic person to appear on a tennis court in years.
    • The photogenic couple, who first met on the set of the film Alfie, are now celebrating with a holiday in the Seychelles.
    • I just figured, look, I'm not photogenic anyway, so this'll just be a little worse.
  • 2Biology
    (of an organism or tissue) producing or emitting light.

    〔生〕(生物体,组织)发光的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The photogenic tissue is composed of four cell types each with distinctive morphology which suggests their function.
    • The ventral, or photogenic layer is the source of the light and is our concern here.
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