Definition of picture in English:

picture

noun ˈpɪktʃəˈpɪk(t)ʃər

1A painting or drawing.
画，图画，画片
draw a picture of a tree
画一棵树。
Example sentencesExamples
- What about drawing pictures and leaving them in people's letterboxes?
- Drawing pictures or making statuettes is also unique to us humans.
- ‘It's simple,’ he explains, going to the whiteboard and drawing pictures frantically.
- A table was provided with paper and writing materials, as well as marker pens for drawing pictures.
- The girl has to stay at home in front of the table every day, drawing pictures and dreaming of going to school with her peers.
- His remarkable piano recitals and penchant for drawing detailed pictures are characteristic of someone with the condition.
- Animation is the time-consuming art of drawing pictures in sequences, which, when viewed rapidly, simulate motion.
- Martin's pictures are mostly pen-and-ink drawings with occasional additions of watercolour.
- You can ask the children to create a different ending to the story or draw different pictures to illustrate what they have read.
- He writes and prints in periodicals verses, drawings and reproductions of pictures which he draws with a brush held in his mouth.
- The walls were filled with pictures of birds, drawings, art, and anime.
- If you buy the upgrade package the cartoonist will draw pictures of the characters in your book, talking about you.
- He told us that he loved hockey, baseball and drawing pictures.
- More than a dozen original pictures (both drawings and paintings) of the dodo now exist.
- Drawing pictures are top of her list of favourite things at school.
- Starting at 9am, practise your drawing skills by painting Easter pictures to add to your Easter holiday memories.
- The various pictures, drawings and paintings had their captions in Irish.
- There are pictures, drawings, and even boxes with additional information.
- Less than 100 pages of text, pictures and figure drawings are divided into ten chapters of unequal length.
- Those who were gifted at drawing or painting might contribute a picture.
Synonyms
painting, drawing, sketch, print, canvas, delineation, cartoon, portrait, portrayal, illustration, artist's impression, artwork, depiction, likeness, representation, image, icon
1. 1.1 A photograph.
  照片
  we were warned not to take pictures
  我们被告诫不要拍照。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A production photographer wants to take pictures of us next to the famous Emmerdale sign.
  Today, most people ask portrait photographers to take pictures of them and their families.
  The father of one of her friends is a photographer, and he had planned to take pictures of a group of them in their long dresses.
  A photographer arrives and wants to take pictures of me in the Gallery.
  Cars are routinely checked, cameras take pictures of licence plates and details of the ownership of a vehicle are matched with the driver.
  Realising that it would make me look as if I had something to hide, I gave in and just let the photographer take pictures of me.
  Press photographers were there to take pictures.
  A friend send me some amazing pictures of 3D pavement drawings.
  It was time for our actual wedding photographer to take pictures of us and various family members, so we just started doing that.
  Many church members have photographic equipment to take pictures and shoot video.
  This camera was controlled by children via the Internet to take pictures of space which were then downloaded into the classroom.
  And so I asked her if I could take pictures of her for my photography class.
  A photographer was also summoned, to take pictures of the happy residents living in their sophisticated surroundings.
  I need a photographer, since I can't take pictures of my face very well.
  Those days, photographers rarely went to studios to take pictures.
  Following the reticent trend of the day, he declined to talk to the press and asked photographers not to take pictures.
  The use of long lens photography to take pictures of people in private places without their consent is also forbidden.
  The photographer wants to take pictures of me with my laptop.
  The photographers want to take pictures of you and your mother together.
  Speed cameras currently only take pictures of the number plates of speeding cars.
  Synonyms
  photograph, photo, shot, snap, snapshot, image, portrait, study
  print, slide, transparency, negative, positive, plate, film, bromide, frame, exposure, still, proof, enlargement
  British enprint
2. 1.2 A portrait.
  画像，肖像
  she had her picture painted
  找人给她画肖像。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was not unusual to be called out of the shop, and see a fair lady who wanted her picture painted.
  How could these critics of Raphael's unrealistic depictions of the world turn around and paint endless pictures of Ophelia?
  This won't do," the wife thought, and she went to town to have her picture painted.
  He then moved to Nigeria, where he lived for nearly 25 years, working as a magistrate and a high court judge and painting pictures of people he met.
  In fact, Goya was still painting pretty pictures of milkmaids and saucy profiles of his mistress.
  We've probably seen a picture or a portrait of them, or some depiction, which passes for a portrait.
3. 1.3 An image on a television screen.
  （电视屏幕上的）图像
  television pictures of captured airmen
  as modifier poor picture quality
  Example sentencesExamples
  Fog, frost and even poor television pictures are some of the main problems.
  He ought to have been made aware of the seriousness of the assault and shown the television pictures before facing the press conference.
  Anna stood outside beside the exit door, and watched the rows of television screens displaying pictures of the roller coaster ride.
  He'd just run a story in which psychologists were talking about the impact television pictures of the war might be having on kids.
  We have seen the television pictures of fishermen dumping dead monkfish, worth thousands of pounds, back into the sea.
  Live television pictures showed two large fires some 150 meters apart.
  The resulting television pictures of hungry children in his arms shocked the conscience of the nation.
  And we stood there just transfixed, as we watched those first television pictures coming in.
  Around 40 local residents had to be evacuated and television pictures from the scene showed extensive damage to the building.
  The television pictures showed a substantial amount of debris strewn by the lakeside where many trailers had been parked.
  Television pictures speak for the themselves - but what happens when you can't show images of disaster, and have to rely on word images?
  In television the picture stays pretty much the same no matter what size screen you are viewing on.
  Although the small size is attractive, the poor picture quality rules it out.
  Just as yesterday, our televisions screens relayed pictures of running battles with police.
  Television pictures showed the children, some as young as two, to be malnourished, neglected and living motionlessly in dirty cribs.
  Television pictures showed a bull pinning a man to a wall.
  Television news pictures bring viewers to the heart of an event and can deliver an understanding of it.
  From television pictures, I note that his body was found in an open area a few feet away from a heavily wooded area.
  Computers can be linked using a special modem, and television pictures can be sent and received.
  The television pictures on Tuesday were nothing short of awful.
4. 1.4 A cinema film.
  影片
  the movie took five honours including best picture
  该电影获得了五项荣誉，包括最佳影片奖。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The included featurette on the filming of the picture is a nice bonus.
  Bardot started working in pictures that year, getting bit parts in obscure films.
  There is a rule of thumb amongst movie buffs: the more scriptwriters the worse the picture.
  Dinosaur becomes the first Disney animated picture in years not to feature any songs.
  The one flaw, in my opinion, is that they didn't separate out studio releases from art house pictures.
  There are extensive production notes that describe the huge tented in area used to film much of the picture.
  It has deservedly won the best picture Golden Globe and will no doubt inspire a new generation to read Virginia Woolf.
  The picture is free of film defects and artifacts, making for a very smooth look.
  We fell in love, then she went to France to do a picture for Alain Resnais called La Guerre est finie with Yves Montand.
  The picture spawned several sequels aimed at the teenage horror market.
  This is an older film, and like many foreign films, done on a smaller budget than a Hollywood picture.
  To compete in the packed world of independent film, a picture has to be creative and clever.
  Some action pictures should dump the script and have the actors shoot at each other.
  They seem a little too satisfied with the changes they made, but sound like they had fun filming the picture.
  In the last two weeks, we've watched two of the classic film noir pictures: Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice.
  This is not intended as an action picture, so don't go expecting fast-paced montages.
  Both pictures salute the David Lynch school of film, with their penchant for blending reality with dreams.
  Steven uses things that he learned from independent films and from foreign films back into studio pictures.
  Filmmakers have been to the Arctic before, shooting action pictures.
  The only action in his war picture occurs at the very beginning of the film.
  Synonyms
  film, movie, feature film
  British cinema film
  North American motion picture
  informal flick
  dated moving picture
5. 1.5the pictures The cinema.
  I'm going to the pictures with my mates
  我要跟我的伙伴们一块去看电影。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The day of going to the pictures or circus for that special occasion has long gone, and now every child wants a bouncing castle to share with their friends for that big day.
  In Karen's book, long-time resident Eva tells of going to the pictures.
  This was the start of going to the pictures with my Grandma.
  It was then that mothers kept their children from going to the pictures on Saturday afternoon.
  It is a far cry from first half of the 20th century when going to the pictures was an integral part of a town's social activities.
  Perhaps, you should go back to the VCD rental shop or forget about the whole business of going to the pictures.
  Pippa enjoys kick-boxing, bowling, going to the pictures, pubs and clubs.
  But apart from that, I like hanging out with my mates and going to the pictures.
  She's been chilling out, listening to music, going to the pictures, reading a lot.
  I told her when that happened I'd quit going to the pictures.
  It's relaxing and pleasant - but so is going to the pictures or for a walk in the woods.
  I like to swim, BBQs and fishing around the lake and going to the pictures.
  Whereas I don't think I would feel that now if I were going to the pictures a lot.
  Going to the pictures was a real treat in every way.
  They were rowdy and shouting - they weren't interested in going to the pictures, they were looking for a fight.
  Synonyms
  the cinema, the movies, the silver screen, the big screen
  North American a motion picture house
  informal the flicks
2An impression of something formed from a description.
〈喻〉情况，局面，事态；心目中的形象，印象，概念
a full picture of the disaster had not yet emerged
该灾难的整体情况尚不得而知。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was a really great vision, but it was not the full picture.
- Be sure to get the full picture by reading the other segments.
- But reports of battles do not present a full picture of the Republic.
- Stuff happens, yes, but the news does not present a full picture of reality.
- But let us hear Socrates out, and get a view of the full picture, as he argues that it would be wrong for him to escape into exile.
- It's going to take lots more research to get the full picture.
- The long-term picture is impressive in light of poor mechanisation levels in the country.
- The abiding problem is to do this but still to show that our often counter-intuitive beliefs are needed to provide the full picture.
- And it seems like the authors got some key leads but not enough to quite present the full picture.
- Having read a lot of your work, you still retain that power to create pictures without reams of description.
- I've only tried to highlight broadly what the policy is about, but you need the company's literature to get the full picture.
- The full picture of how the government manipulated the legal justification for war, and political pressure placed on its most senior law officer, is revealed in the newspaper today.
- Figures like this are exceptional in the extreme and give a completely unrepresentative impression of the national picture.
- The first is to present a fuller picture of himself, one that is more comfortable to the voter.
- The quick impression is of success, the full picture is of unbridled inadequacy.
Synonyms
concept, idea, impression, mental picture, view, (mental) image, vision, visualization, notion, theory, abstraction
3archaic A person or thing resembling another closely.
〈古〉酷似的人（或物）
‘How excessively like her brother Miss Morland is!’ ‘The very picture of him, indeed!’
Example sentencesExamples
- She's the very picture of her. I saw it at once. When I first went into the room I could hardly believe my own eyes.
- He's the picture of his father, he's a bonny young Irish boy.
- "He's the picture of his old sire, Lazzarone," he continued, looking the horse over critically.
Synonyms
personification, embodiment, epitome, essence, perfect example, soul, model
rare exemplar, archetype, quintessence

verb ˈpɪktʃəˈpɪk(t)ʃər

[with object]

1Represent in a photograph or picture.
绘，画；拍摄
he is pictured with party guests
Example sentencesExamples
- Large timbers were used to frame many of the beds pictured on these pages.
- He also shot images of girls walking home and a 10-year-old girl was pictured rollerblading after he hid behind a wall to film her.
- In one scene, two homeless men are filmed fighting in a public toilet while another is pictured pulling out his own teeth with pliers.
- In particular he spots a photo strip picturing his son with this man and presumes from this photographic evidence that the man is his son's murderer.
- Though they aren't pictured here, they placed highly in tastings.
- The information is disgusting and false, " said Jack, who was pictured wearing a bright blue shirt.
- The lanes pictured are representative of at least six independent samples.
- The competition question was: can you guess what is pictured in the photo below?
- The most welcome sighting was our first Chipping Sparrow of the year, pictured to the right.
- The boreal forest also includes dry northern forest, as pictured on pages 28 and 30.
- Not pictured here, but are included, is the shoulder strap.
- He is pictured here wearing his second pair of hiking boots.
- Forget the people you see in front of the camera or pictured on a CD cover.
- The design, however, would be different from that pictured in this article.
- He is pictured at the party with former employees.
- She is pictured in front of the centre with her daughter Adelle.
- The poem begins along the right edge of a rice paper sheet next to a vertical strip of black and white photographs picturing Cha obscuring her face with her hands.
- It has proved useful in studying and picturing mountains, skies, rainfall, coastal lines, artificial scenery, and designs and patterns through computers.
- A calendar picturing semi-naked men, shot in aid of a village school, has caused uproar after proving too hot to handle.
- "Also pictured in the photo is an object from the collection of the Genesee Country Museum.
Synonyms
photograph, take/get a photograph/photo of, take someone's picture/photo, take/get a picture of, take/get a snapshot/snap of, take, snap, shoot, take/get a shot of
record, film, capture/record on film/celluloid
paint, draw, paint a picture of, sketch, depict, delineate, portray, catch (a likeness of), show, illustrate, reproduce, render, represent
1. 1.1 Describe in a certain way.
  描绘，描述
  biographers have pictured him as a St Francis
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was pictured as a woman arched on her toes and fingertips over the earth - her body, a star-filled sky.
  It is usually pictured in the form of an elk, less often as a bear.
  He was pictured as black and green, the colors of Nile mud and vegetation.
  After the failed sacrifice, he was pictured as too weak to fight.
  He shoots sympathetically, an arresting contrast with the extreme situations pictured.
  In the film, he's pictured as an often-hard man driven mostly by the painful realities of black culture.
  He was pictured as a leopard skin-clad dwarf with a huge head, prominent eyes and cheeks, a curly beard and an open mouth with his tongue sticking out.
  Following the lead of one Thomas Aquinas, it was thought that the unicorn probably had attributes of both: thus he was pictured as being a goat with a horse's head, or having cleft hooves before and solid hooves behind.
  It is therefore imperative that your staff members know how they are being described and pictured.
  As far as this cryptic description goes, it pictures things perfectly.
  Bacchus in early likenesses was a bearded man, but later he was pictured as a youth.
  The Tree was pictured as having seven roots reaching down into the earth and seven branches extending up toward the heavens, thus symbolizing man's relationship to both earth and heaven.
  In other words, people are pictured as valuing goods in terms of the bundles of attributes which these possess.
  I see you're trying to picture this in terms of a cinematic story that can be told on a screen.
  Now they may be willing to listen to quite a lot of descriptive talk about the objects and events pictured in the books.
2. 1.2 Form a mental image of.
  构想，想像
  she pictured Benjamin waiting
  她想像着本杰明等待的样子。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I always pictured myself working at some high-class clothing store but never a diner.
  I can almost picture her face reddening and her eyes narrowing.
  I defy you to picture the scene without making the obvious mental leap.
  In my mind's eye I could picture him standing at our bedroom door.
  For a split second he could see the tree that he had pictured in his mind.
  Selina, even with her wild imagination, never pictured her parents lives to be so dramatic in the beginning.
  Why not picture yourself in a film and step onto a few of these famous sets?
  My imagination won't let me picture Marilyn older than her 36 years.
  Try to picture a Christmas party in which NOBODY gets stupidly drunk.
  Before every party, I pictured a scene of me talking, me being heard.
  When I was a student, I'd look at old photographs, and try to picture the scenes behind them.
  I sit there silently for a moment, picturing this.
  Perhaps the best way to illustrate how much money this tax cut represents is to picture it as a stack of bills.
  I could just picture her face on the other line.
  It means having the imagination to picture the world through the eyes of an 18-year-old.
  Every time I close my eyes I keep picturing him.
  She could almost picture the innocent smile plastered on her best friend's face.
  Generally speaking, one doesn't really picture film directors as an adventurous lot.
  Then picture him waiting by the window to greet you every morning as you get to work.
  The stone edge of the quay is still to be seen, and it doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to picture it as it was a century ago.
  Synonyms
  visualize, see in one's mind, see in one's mind's eye, conjure up a picture of, conjure up an image of, imagine, conceive, call to mind, image, see, evoke
  fantasize about, dream about
  rare envision

Phrases

be in pictures

Act in films or work for the film industry.
〈主北美〉从影，演电影
someone told her she ought to be in pictures
Example sentencesExamples
- If you or your child ever wanted to be in pictures -- this is your chance!
- Soon we had two camps in our class: those who wanted to be New York actors and those who wanted to be in pictures.
- Like a lot of youngsters, John decided early on that he wanted to be in pictures.
- Lottie says, ‘Ten years I've been in pictures and hope to be always in some way or other ’.
- They say that he's exactly the same now as when he was in radio, which I believe, because he's exactly the same now as when he was in pictures.

be (or look) a picture

Be very pleasing to look at.
Kim looked a picture
Example sentencesExamples
- She heard Jingle Bells on the radio and when she looked up her face was a picture as she realised what she was listening to.
- The opening chance of the match arrived after all of 18 minutes and it has to be said that the Park surface looked a picture under the glorious sunshine, which shone throughout the game.
- Yesterday it looked a picture, a different place from the self-conscious, windswept venue of the opening days.
- The town looks a picture at the moment as you are aware, but there is a substantial cost involved in making all this possible.
- Maureen looked a picture when she found she got an A-level grade B in photography.
- Isn't the course looking a picture with the recent rain and watering making it a great joy playing on a golf course that within 12 months will be back to one of the best, with tees and greens to be completed mid-December?
- The pitch looked a picture, covered by the light dew from the night before.
- The Stadium looks a picture at the moment - the best I have seen it to date.
- The stadiums were ready, the security teams were all in place and Athens was looking a picture.
- My girls looked a picture as flower girls and performed their roles with aplomb.
- Nora looked a picture in her red suit and gave a wonderful performance - except it wasn't a performance - it was pure natural Nora, and everyone loved it.

the big (or bigger or larger) picture

informal The situation as a whole.
〈非正式〉整体情况
he's so involved in the minutiae that he often overlooks the big picture
Example sentencesExamples
- Happily glide from the big picture to the detail and back again.
- These, of course, are two very different areas of the big picture.
- Decency paves the way, full of home sweet values which too often are overlooked in the big picture.
- Because of the way institutions work, an engineer ends up working on one part of a system but doesn't get to stand back and see the big picture.
- Nolan has good reason to be excited but he is doing his best not to let the big game divert attention from the big picture.
- He sees the big picture of the whole industry, and that generates a lot of respect.
- If it had been all lovely I might have left with an inability to see the big picture and would missed those pieces I really did enjoy.
- Their world belongs to the big picture, but even this view can often be clouded by the irritating inconvenience of detail.
- He loves such words, toying with them, searching out their roots, using them to illustrate the big picture.
- You're so entangled in it, and so concerned about the details of your current situation, that you miss the big picture.

get the picture

informal Understand a situation.
〈非正式〉了解情况
any trouble your father might have we can hide—d'you get the picture?
Example sentencesExamples
- I realize that sounds completely revolting, but I think you get the picture.
- We're undoubtedly not getting the picture as full as it should be.
- Scott didn't seem to get the picture, his brain still working on understanding what Jesse had just told him.
- To be honest, I believe it was more difficult to get the picture than to catch the carp.
- How long do you think it will be before he gets the picture that I want him to go away!
- I think you're probably getting the picture here.
- And although the ads continue to be pervasive, she also said that some agencies are getting the picture.
- Think of the mob with flaming torches in the Frankenstein movie making their way up the mountain to the castle and you've got the picture.
- If this description inspires thoughts of a huge moon and bright stars, or warm sunrays of yellow and orange, then you are getting the picture.
- This includes, buses, trains, lifts, public buildings, pubs, restaurants; I think you have probably got the picture.
Synonyms
understand the situation, work out what's going on, see the light, see daylight, get the point

in the picture

Fully informed about something.
熟知，知情，知底细
he called Forbes in London to put him in the picture
Example sentencesExamples
- And as soon as the starting pistol was fired readers raced to the telephone and email to put me in the picture.
- I well remember my first day at senior school, your mates put you in the picture.
- So if you have a mobile phone you can put it to good use by putting these individuals in the picture.
- Although I was proud of my parents, I needed some separation from them and to put myself in the picture.
- I am indebted to a good friend for making sure I am kept in the picture.
- He will also be asking Smith to meet with the players this week to put them in the picture about what will happen over the coming weeks.
- He was put in the picture by the amused elderly ladies who gossip every evening in the entrance hall of the block.
- Blogging fills in the picture of which only a small part is reported by journalists.
- We just want him to keep us in the picture with what's happening and what kind of deal he's after.
- Lee also demonstrates the tying of new patterns so that we are kept fully in the picture.
Synonyms
inform, fill in, give details to, explain the situation to, give information to, explain the circumstances to, describe the state of affairs to, bring up to date, update, brief, keep posted

out of the picture

So as to be no longer involved in a situation.
不再卷入，不相干
hostages were better left out of the picture
最好不要把人质牵扯进来。
Example sentencesExamples
- That's me and, I imagine, a few million others, well out of the picture.
- This pattern of politics leaves people who don't fit into either category completely out of the picture.
- I told him basically, if he was seeing somebody else, that I was out of the picture.
- We'd need him out of the picture to release the surplus for spending.
- His team had been out of the picture in the first half with Hearts dominating possession and carving the vast majority of chances.
- Well all of that is true, and so most writers trying to convince other people of something tend to leave themselves out of the picture.
- But when you take the operations chief out of the picture, it does pose a lot of problems.
- However, he quickly found that he was not achieving results and that the future was in danger of arriving with him out of the picture.
- However they had two players sent off and faded out of the picture in the second half - even failing to get a single score.
- I was out of the picture and they were certainly looking to offload.

a (or the) picture of —

The embodiment of a specified state or emotion.
是…的化身（或典范）
she looked a picture of health
她仿佛就是健康的化身。
Example sentencesExamples
- This young footballer is the picture of health as he helps make a charity soccer tournament a success.
- I sat in the corner of the kitchen, sipping carefully, the picture of misery.
- In those cruel, almost harrowing, final few moments, the Celtic manager was a picture of helplessness.
- He strode into the surgery briskly with no obvious breathlessness; he looked the picture of health.
- The dancers were a picture of grace, leaping with ease and elegance.
- He was a dour and industrious man who inspired confidence and was the picture of respectability.
- The youngster looks a picture of health as she chatters away happily like any normal one-year-old, with a cheeky grin guaranteed to melt your heart.
- Dolly sat fully erect, tasting the air, the picture of feline contentment.
- Her face was a picture of concentration and she bit gently on her bottom lip.
- Apart from that, she was a picture of dignity and grace, with the kind of beauty that grew resplendent with age.

(as) pretty as a picture

Very pretty.
非常漂亮
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘She looks pretty as a picture, I think,’ my mother said genuinely and definitively.
- It was all as pretty as a picture and just a little too good to be true.
- She was a little bit on the cuddly side, but pretty as a picture.
- The world really is as pretty as a picture for the professor, who has recreated the great photographic journeys of the Victorian Age.
- I'll bet if we saw the technical crew, or even the people at the craft services table, they'd also be pretty as a picture.
- I walked over to him, pretty as a picture, meek as a mouse.
- He doesn't put Austen on a pedestal and he doesn't make a film that is pretty as a picture but lacking in any sense of vitality.
- She looked pretty as a picture herself out here in the sunshine - a ravishing rose amongst a garden of gorgeous roses.
- The resulting spring tabletop is as pretty as a picture.
- She was as pretty as a picture - not beautiful, not stark raving mad like me, just pretty.
Synonyms
good-looking, attractive, nice-looking, handsome, lovely, beautiful, pretty, as pretty as a picture, stunning, striking, arresting, prepossessing, winning, fetching, captivating, bewitching, beguiling, engaging, charming, charismatic, enchanting, appealing, delightful, irresistible

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin pictura, from pict- 'painted' (from the verb pingere).

The word picture goes back to a form of Latin pingere ‘to paint’, from which paint and pigment (Old English) also derive. Doan's Backache Kidney Pills, claiming to cure everything from rheumatism to diabetes, were promoted with the advertising slogan every picture tells a story. The first known advertisement using it appeared in the Daily Mail of 26 February 1904. The novelist Charlotte Brontë had anticipated the advertising copy, though: in 1847 she wrote in Jane Eyre, ‘The letter-press…I cared little for…Each picture told a story.’ A caption in the magazine Printer's Ink for 8 December 1927, read: ‘Chinese proverb. One picture is worth ten thousand words.’ There is no evidence at all that it is Chinese, but a picture is worth a thousand words has certainly gone on to be a modern English proverb. Depict (Late Middle English) is from the verb depingere ‘portray’, from de- ‘completely’ and pingere.

Rhymes

stricture

Definition of picture in US English:

picture

nounˈpɪk(t)ʃərˈpik(t)SHər

1A painting or drawing.
画，图画，画片
draw a picture of a tree
画一棵树。
Example sentencesExamples
- The girl has to stay at home in front of the table every day, drawing pictures and dreaming of going to school with her peers.
- If you buy the upgrade package the cartoonist will draw pictures of the characters in your book, talking about you.
- His remarkable piano recitals and penchant for drawing detailed pictures are characteristic of someone with the condition.
- ‘It's simple,’ he explains, going to the whiteboard and drawing pictures frantically.
- There are pictures, drawings, and even boxes with additional information.
- Drawing pictures or making statuettes is also unique to us humans.
- A table was provided with paper and writing materials, as well as marker pens for drawing pictures.
- Drawing pictures are top of her list of favourite things at school.
- The various pictures, drawings and paintings had their captions in Irish.
- The walls were filled with pictures of birds, drawings, art, and anime.
- He told us that he loved hockey, baseball and drawing pictures.
- What about drawing pictures and leaving them in people's letterboxes?
- Martin's pictures are mostly pen-and-ink drawings with occasional additions of watercolour.
- More than a dozen original pictures (both drawings and paintings) of the dodo now exist.
- You can ask the children to create a different ending to the story or draw different pictures to illustrate what they have read.
- Less than 100 pages of text, pictures and figure drawings are divided into ten chapters of unequal length.
- Those who were gifted at drawing or painting might contribute a picture.
- He writes and prints in periodicals verses, drawings and reproductions of pictures which he draws with a brush held in his mouth.
- Animation is the time-consuming art of drawing pictures in sequences, which, when viewed rapidly, simulate motion.
- Starting at 9am, practise your drawing skills by painting Easter pictures to add to your Easter holiday memories.
Synonyms
painting, drawing, sketch, print, canvas, delineation, cartoon, portrait, portrayal, illustration, artist's impression, artwork, depiction, likeness, representation, image, icon
1. 1.1 A photograph.
  照片
  we were warned not to take pictures
  我们被告诫不要拍照。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Today, most people ask portrait photographers to take pictures of them and their families.
  A friend send me some amazing pictures of 3D pavement drawings.
  A production photographer wants to take pictures of us next to the famous Emmerdale sign.
  Following the reticent trend of the day, he declined to talk to the press and asked photographers not to take pictures.
  It was time for our actual wedding photographer to take pictures of us and various family members, so we just started doing that.
  Cars are routinely checked, cameras take pictures of licence plates and details of the ownership of a vehicle are matched with the driver.
  The father of one of her friends is a photographer, and he had planned to take pictures of a group of them in their long dresses.
  Realising that it would make me look as if I had something to hide, I gave in and just let the photographer take pictures of me.
  Press photographers were there to take pictures.
  The photographer wants to take pictures of me with my laptop.
  I need a photographer, since I can't take pictures of my face very well.
  A photographer was also summoned, to take pictures of the happy residents living in their sophisticated surroundings.
  The photographers want to take pictures of you and your mother together.
  Many church members have photographic equipment to take pictures and shoot video.
  Those days, photographers rarely went to studios to take pictures.
  A photographer arrives and wants to take pictures of me in the Gallery.
  The use of long lens photography to take pictures of people in private places without their consent is also forbidden.
  And so I asked her if I could take pictures of her for my photography class.
  This camera was controlled by children via the Internet to take pictures of space which were then downloaded into the classroom.
  Speed cameras currently only take pictures of the number plates of speeding cars.
  Synonyms
  photograph, photo, shot, snap, snapshot, image, portrait, study
2. 1.2 A portrait.
  画像，肖像
  have her picture painted
  找人给她画肖像。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This won't do," the wife thought, and she went to town to have her picture painted.
  In fact, Goya was still painting pretty pictures of milkmaids and saucy profiles of his mistress.
  How could these critics of Raphael's unrealistic depictions of the world turn around and paint endless pictures of Ophelia?
  We've probably seen a picture or a portrait of them, or some depiction, which passes for a portrait.
  He then moved to Nigeria, where he lived for nearly 25 years, working as a magistrate and a high court judge and painting pictures of people he met.
  It was not unusual to be called out of the shop, and see a fair lady who wanted her picture painted.
3. 1.3archaic A person or thing resembling another closely.
  〈古〉酷似的人（或物）
  she is the very picture of her mother
  Example sentencesExamples
  "He's the picture of his old sire, Lazzarone," he continued, looking the horse over critically.
  He's the picture of his father, he's a bonny young Irish boy.
  She's the very picture of her. I saw it at once. When I first went into the room I could hardly believe my own eyes.
  Synonyms
  personification, embodiment, epitome, essence, perfect example, soul, model
4. 1.4 An impression of something formed from an account or description.
  〈喻〉情况，局面，事态；心目中的形象，印象，概念
  a full picture of the disaster had not yet emerged
  该灾难的整体情况尚不得而知。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Be sure to get the full picture by reading the other segments.
  Stuff happens, yes, but the news does not present a full picture of reality.
  It's going to take lots more research to get the full picture.
  And it seems like the authors got some key leads but not enough to quite present the full picture.
  But let us hear Socrates out, and get a view of the full picture, as he argues that it would be wrong for him to escape into exile.
  But reports of battles do not present a full picture of the Republic.
  The quick impression is of success, the full picture is of unbridled inadequacy.
  Figures like this are exceptional in the extreme and give a completely unrepresentative impression of the national picture.
  Having read a lot of your work, you still retain that power to create pictures without reams of description.
  The abiding problem is to do this but still to show that our often counter-intuitive beliefs are needed to provide the full picture.
  I've only tried to highlight broadly what the policy is about, but you need the company's literature to get the full picture.
  It was a really great vision, but it was not the full picture.
  The first is to present a fuller picture of himself, one that is more comfortable to the voter.
  The full picture of how the government manipulated the legal justification for war, and political pressure placed on its most senior law officer, is revealed in the newspaper today.
  The long-term picture is impressive in light of poor mechanisation levels in the country.
  Synonyms
  concept, idea, impression, mental picture, view, image, mental image, vision, visualization, notion, theory, abstraction
5. 1.5 An image on a television screen.
  （电视屏幕上的）图像
  Example sentencesExamples
  He ought to have been made aware of the seriousness of the assault and shown the television pictures before facing the press conference.
  Live television pictures showed two large fires some 150 meters apart.
  Just as yesterday, our televisions screens relayed pictures of running battles with police.
  Television pictures showed the children, some as young as two, to be malnourished, neglected and living motionlessly in dirty cribs.
  The television pictures showed a substantial amount of debris strewn by the lakeside where many trailers had been parked.
  Although the small size is attractive, the poor picture quality rules it out.
  From television pictures, I note that his body was found in an open area a few feet away from a heavily wooded area.
  The television pictures on Tuesday were nothing short of awful.
  Computers can be linked using a special modem, and television pictures can be sent and received.
  In television the picture stays pretty much the same no matter what size screen you are viewing on.
  Around 40 local residents had to be evacuated and television pictures from the scene showed extensive damage to the building.
  Television pictures speak for the themselves - but what happens when you can't show images of disaster, and have to rely on word images?
  He'd just run a story in which psychologists were talking about the impact television pictures of the war might be having on kids.
  We have seen the television pictures of fishermen dumping dead monkfish, worth thousands of pounds, back into the sea.
  Anna stood outside beside the exit door, and watched the rows of television screens displaying pictures of the roller coaster ride.
  Fog, frost and even poor television pictures are some of the main problems.
  Television pictures showed a bull pinning a man to a wall.
  The resulting television pictures of hungry children in his arms shocked the conscience of the nation.
  Television news pictures bring viewers to the heart of an event and can deliver an understanding of it.
  And we stood there just transfixed, as we watched those first television pictures coming in.
6. 1.6 A movie.
  it took five honors, including best picture
  该电影获得了五项荣誉，包括最佳影片奖。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The film won nine Oscars, including a Best Editing Oscar for Murch, and best picture.
  Expect to see this movie nabbing the Oscar next year for best picture and best original song.
  It is certainly rare to see a horror movie, like The Sixth Sense, up for best picture.
  The picture doesn't include explicit nudity, but it's about as close as you can get.
  But then the movie soon deteriorates into a sub - standard horror picture.
  The movies or pictures as they were called then were the only night out for the locals, many of whom were non-drinkers.
  His love of those old movies is evident in every frame this picture.
  Synonyms
  film, movie, feature film
7. 1.7the pictures The movies.
  I'm going to the pictures with my buddies
  我要跟我的伙伴们一块去看电影。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As a teenager, going to the pictures was the thing that everyone did.
  Even if you weren't going to the pictures, it was impossible not to notice how many people were waiting outside most of the cinemas for the film to start.
  This was the start of going to the pictures with my Grandma.
  As well as fasting, we had to give up certain luxuries as a Lenten sacrifice, giving up sweets was bad enough, but giving up going to the pictures was the worst punishment of all.
  Most of the time, however, I am just glad that going to the pictures has never lost its magic for me.
  Synonyms
  the cinema, the movies, the silver screen, the big screen

verbˈpɪk(t)ʃərˈpik(t)SHər

[with object]

1Represent (someone or something) in a photograph or picture.
绘，画；拍摄
he is pictured with party guests
Example sentencesExamples
- The lanes pictured are representative of at least six independent samples.
- She is pictured in front of the centre with her daughter Adelle.
- Forget the people you see in front of the camera or pictured on a CD cover.
- The information is disgusting and false, " said Jack, who was pictured wearing a bright blue shirt.
- He is pictured at the party with former employees.
- It has proved useful in studying and picturing mountains, skies, rainfall, coastal lines, artificial scenery, and designs and patterns through computers.
- The boreal forest also includes dry northern forest, as pictured on pages 28 and 30.
- The poem begins along the right edge of a rice paper sheet next to a vertical strip of black and white photographs picturing Cha obscuring her face with her hands.
- He also shot images of girls walking home and a 10-year-old girl was pictured rollerblading after he hid behind a wall to film her.
- The design, however, would be different from that pictured in this article.
- Not pictured here, but are included, is the shoulder strap.
- "Also pictured in the photo is an object from the collection of the Genesee Country Museum.
- In particular he spots a photo strip picturing his son with this man and presumes from this photographic evidence that the man is his son's murderer.
- The competition question was: can you guess what is pictured in the photo below?
- He is pictured here wearing his second pair of hiking boots.
- In one scene, two homeless men are filmed fighting in a public toilet while another is pictured pulling out his own teeth with pliers.
- Though they aren't pictured here, they placed highly in tastings.
- Large timbers were used to frame many of the beds pictured on these pages.
- The most welcome sighting was our first Chipping Sparrow of the year, pictured to the right.
- A calendar picturing semi-naked men, shot in aid of a village school, has caused uproar after proving too hot to handle.
Synonyms
photograph, get a photo of, get a photograph of, take a photo of, take a photograph of, take someone's photo, take someone's picture, get a picture of, take a picture of, get a snap of, get a snapshot of, take a snap of, take a snapshot of, take, snap, shoot, get a shot of, take a shot of
paint, draw, paint a picture of, sketch, depict, delineate, portray, catch, catch a likeness of, show, illustrate, reproduce, render, represent
1. 1.1 Describe (someone or something) in a certain way.
  描绘，描述
  the markets in London and New York are usually pictured in contrasting terms
  人们往往用对照性的语言来描述伦敦和纽约的市场。
  Example sentencesExamples
  After the failed sacrifice, he was pictured as too weak to fight.
  He was pictured as black and green, the colors of Nile mud and vegetation.
  It is usually pictured in the form of an elk, less often as a bear.
  In other words, people are pictured as valuing goods in terms of the bundles of attributes which these possess.
  As far as this cryptic description goes, it pictures things perfectly.
  He shoots sympathetically, an arresting contrast with the extreme situations pictured.
  In the film, he's pictured as an often-hard man driven mostly by the painful realities of black culture.
  I see you're trying to picture this in terms of a cinematic story that can be told on a screen.
  She was pictured as a woman arched on her toes and fingertips over the earth - her body, a star-filled sky.
  Following the lead of one Thomas Aquinas, it was thought that the unicorn probably had attributes of both: thus he was pictured as being a goat with a horse's head, or having cleft hooves before and solid hooves behind.
  It is therefore imperative that your staff members know how they are being described and pictured.
  The Tree was pictured as having seven roots reaching down into the earth and seven branches extending up toward the heavens, thus symbolizing man's relationship to both earth and heaven.
  He was pictured as a leopard skin-clad dwarf with a huge head, prominent eyes and cheeks, a curly beard and an open mouth with his tongue sticking out.
  Now they may be willing to listen to quite a lot of descriptive talk about the objects and events pictured in the books.
  Bacchus in early likenesses was a bearded man, but later he was pictured as a youth.
2. 1.2 Form a mental image of.
  构想，想像
  she pictured Benjamin waiting
  她想像着本杰明等待的样子。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I could just picture her face on the other line.
  I defy you to picture the scene without making the obvious mental leap.
  It means having the imagination to picture the world through the eyes of an 18-year-old.
  Try to picture a Christmas party in which NOBODY gets stupidly drunk.
  Perhaps the best way to illustrate how much money this tax cut represents is to picture it as a stack of bills.
  The stone edge of the quay is still to be seen, and it doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to picture it as it was a century ago.
  I can almost picture her face reddening and her eyes narrowing.
  I sit there silently for a moment, picturing this.
  My imagination won't let me picture Marilyn older than her 36 years.
  Selina, even with her wild imagination, never pictured her parents lives to be so dramatic in the beginning.
  When I was a student, I'd look at old photographs, and try to picture the scenes behind them.
  Why not picture yourself in a film and step onto a few of these famous sets?
  I always pictured myself working at some high-class clothing store but never a diner.
  Then picture him waiting by the window to greet you every morning as you get to work.
  Generally speaking, one doesn't really picture film directors as an adventurous lot.
  She could almost picture the innocent smile plastered on her best friend's face.
  In my mind's eye I could picture him standing at our bedroom door.
  Before every party, I pictured a scene of me talking, me being heard.
  For a split second he could see the tree that he had pictured in his mind.
  Every time I close my eyes I keep picturing him.
  Synonyms
  visualize, see in one's mind, see in one's mind's eye, conjure up a picture of, conjure up an image of, imagine, conceive, call to mind, image, see, evoke

Phrases

be in pictures

Act in movies or work in the motion-picture industry.
〈主北美〉从影，演电影
Example sentencesExamples
- Soon we had two camps in our class: those who wanted to be New York actors and those who wanted to be in pictures.
- If you or your child ever wanted to be in pictures -- this is your chance!
- Lottie says, ‘Ten years I've been in pictures and hope to be always in some way or other ’.
- They say that he's exactly the same now as when he was in radio, which I believe, because he's exactly the same now as when he was in pictures.
- Like a lot of youngsters, John decided early on that he wanted to be in pictures.

be (or look) a picture

Be very pleasing to look at.
Example sentencesExamples
- My girls looked a picture as flower girls and performed their roles with aplomb.
- Maureen looked a picture when she found she got an A-level grade B in photography.
- Yesterday it looked a picture, a different place from the self-conscious, windswept venue of the opening days.
- She heard Jingle Bells on the radio and when she looked up her face was a picture as she realised what she was listening to.
- Isn't the course looking a picture with the recent rain and watering making it a great joy playing on a golf course that within 12 months will be back to one of the best, with tees and greens to be completed mid-December?
- The opening chance of the match arrived after all of 18 minutes and it has to be said that the Park surface looked a picture under the glorious sunshine, which shone throughout the game.
- Nora looked a picture in her red suit and gave a wonderful performance - except it wasn't a performance - it was pure natural Nora, and everyone loved it.
- The pitch looked a picture, covered by the light dew from the night before.
- The Stadium looks a picture at the moment - the best I have seen it to date.
- The town looks a picture at the moment as you are aware, but there is a substantial cost involved in making all this possible.
- The stadiums were ready, the security teams were all in place and Athens was looking a picture.

the big (or bigger or larger) picture

informal The situation as a whole.
〈非正式〉整体情况
he's so involved in the minutiae that he often overlooks the big picture
Example sentencesExamples
- Decency paves the way, full of home sweet values which too often are overlooked in the big picture.
- You're so entangled in it, and so concerned about the details of your current situation, that you miss the big picture.
- He sees the big picture of the whole industry, and that generates a lot of respect.
- He loves such words, toying with them, searching out their roots, using them to illustrate the big picture.
- Happily glide from the big picture to the detail and back again.
- Nolan has good reason to be excited but he is doing his best not to let the big game divert attention from the big picture.
- Because of the way institutions work, an engineer ends up working on one part of a system but doesn't get to stand back and see the big picture.
- If it had been all lovely I might have left with an inability to see the big picture and would missed those pieces I really did enjoy.
- Their world belongs to the big picture, but even this view can often be clouded by the irritating inconvenience of detail.
- These, of course, are two very different areas of the big picture.

get the picture

informal Understand a situation.
〈非正式〉了解情况
Example sentencesExamples
- How long do you think it will be before he gets the picture that I want him to go away!
- And although the ads continue to be pervasive, she also said that some agencies are getting the picture.
- If this description inspires thoughts of a huge moon and bright stars, or warm sunrays of yellow and orange, then you are getting the picture.
- We're undoubtedly not getting the picture as full as it should be.
- Think of the mob with flaming torches in the Frankenstein movie making their way up the mountain to the castle and you've got the picture.
- To be honest, I believe it was more difficult to get the picture than to catch the carp.
- Scott didn't seem to get the picture, his brain still working on understanding what Jesse had just told him.
- I think you're probably getting the picture here.
- This includes, buses, trains, lifts, public buildings, pubs, restaurants; I think you have probably got the picture.
- I realize that sounds completely revolting, but I think you get the picture.
Synonyms
understand the situation, work out what's going on, see the light, see daylight, get the point

in the picture

Fully informed about something.
熟知，知情，知底细
Example sentencesExamples
- I well remember my first day at senior school, your mates put you in the picture.
- Lee also demonstrates the tying of new patterns so that we are kept fully in the picture.
- And as soon as the starting pistol was fired readers raced to the telephone and email to put me in the picture.
- Although I was proud of my parents, I needed some separation from them and to put myself in the picture.
- So if you have a mobile phone you can put it to good use by putting these individuals in the picture.
- Blogging fills in the picture of which only a small part is reported by journalists.
- We just want him to keep us in the picture with what's happening and what kind of deal he's after.
- He was put in the picture by the amused elderly ladies who gossip every evening in the entrance hall of the block.
- I am indebted to a good friend for making sure I am kept in the picture.
- He will also be asking Smith to meet with the players this week to put them in the picture about what will happen over the coming weeks.
Synonyms
inform, fill in, give details to, explain the situation to, give information to, explain the circumstances to, describe the state of affairs to, bring up to date, update, brief, keep posted

out of the picture

No longer involved; irrelevant.
不再卷入，不相干
hostages were better left out of the picture
最好不要把人质牵扯进来。
Example sentencesExamples
- That's me and, I imagine, a few million others, well out of the picture.
- However they had two players sent off and faded out of the picture in the second half - even failing to get a single score.
- But when you take the operations chief out of the picture, it does pose a lot of problems.
- This pattern of politics leaves people who don't fit into either category completely out of the picture.
- However, he quickly found that he was not achieving results and that the future was in danger of arriving with him out of the picture.
- I was out of the picture and they were certainly looking to offload.
- I told him basically, if he was seeing somebody else, that I was out of the picture.
- Well all of that is true, and so most writers trying to convince other people of something tend to leave themselves out of the picture.
- We'd need him out of the picture to release the surplus for spending.
- His team had been out of the picture in the first half with Hearts dominating possession and carving the vast majority of chances.

(as) pretty as a picture

Very pretty.
非常漂亮
Example sentencesExamples
- She was as pretty as a picture - not beautiful, not stark raving mad like me, just pretty.
- ‘She looks pretty as a picture, I think,’ my mother said genuinely and definitively.
- He doesn't put Austen on a pedestal and he doesn't make a film that is pretty as a picture but lacking in any sense of vitality.
- I walked over to him, pretty as a picture, meek as a mouse.
- I'll bet if we saw the technical crew, or even the people at the craft services table, they'd also be pretty as a picture.
- It was all as pretty as a picture and just a little too good to be true.
- She looked pretty as a picture herself out here in the sunshine - a ravishing rose amongst a garden of gorgeous roses.
- The world really is as pretty as a picture for the professor, who has recreated the great photographic journeys of the Victorian Age.
- She was a little bit on the cuddly side, but pretty as a picture.
- The resulting spring tabletop is as pretty as a picture.
Synonyms
good-looking, attractive, nice-looking, handsome, lovely, beautiful, pretty, as pretty as a picture, stunning, striking, arresting, prepossessing, winning, fetching, captivating, bewitching, beguiling, engaging, charming, charismatic, enchanting, appealing, delightful, irresistible

the (or a) picture of —

The embodiment of a specified state or emotion.
是…的化身（或典范）
she looked the picture of forbearance
她仿佛就是健康的化身。
Example sentencesExamples
- I sat in the corner of the kitchen, sipping carefully, the picture of misery.
- He strode into the surgery briskly with no obvious breathlessness; he looked the picture of health.
- The dancers were a picture of grace, leaping with ease and elegance.
- Her face was a picture of concentration and she bit gently on her bottom lip.
- Dolly sat fully erect, tasting the air, the picture of feline contentment.
- The youngster looks a picture of health as she chatters away happily like any normal one-year-old, with a cheeky grin guaranteed to melt your heart.
- In those cruel, almost harrowing, final few moments, the Celtic manager was a picture of helplessness.
- This young footballer is the picture of health as he helps make a charity soccer tournament a success.
- He was a dour and industrious man who inspired confidence and was the picture of respectability.
- Apart from that, she was a picture of dignity and grace, with the kind of beauty that grew resplendent with age.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin pictura, from pict- ‘painted’ (from the verb pingere).

词汇	picture
释义	Definition of picture in English: picture noun ˈpɪktʃəˈpɪk(t)ʃər 1A painting or drawing. 画，图画，画片 draw a picture of a tree 画一棵树。 Example sentencesExamples What about drawing pictures and leaving them in people's letterboxes? Drawing pictures or making statuettes is also unique to us humans. ‘It's simple,’ he explains, going to the whiteboard and drawing pictures frantically. A table was provided with paper and writing materials, as well as marker pens for drawing pictures. The girl has to stay at home in front of the table every day, drawing pictures and dreaming of going to school with her peers. His remarkable piano recitals and penchant for drawing detailed pictures are characteristic of someone with the condition. Animation is the time-consuming art of drawing pictures in sequences, which, when viewed rapidly, simulate motion. Martin's pictures are mostly pen-and-ink drawings with occasional additions of watercolour. You can ask the children to create a different ending to the story or draw different pictures to illustrate what they have read. He writes and prints in periodicals verses, drawings and reproductions of pictures which he draws with a brush held in his mouth. The walls were filled with pictures of birds, drawings, art, and anime. If you buy the upgrade package the cartoonist will draw pictures of the characters in your book, talking about you. He told us that he loved hockey, baseball and drawing pictures. More than a dozen original pictures (both drawings and paintings) of the dodo now exist. Drawing pictures are top of her list of favourite things at school. Starting at 9am, practise your drawing skills by painting Easter pictures to add to your Easter holiday memories. The various pictures, drawings and paintings had their captions in Irish. There are pictures, drawings, and even boxes with additional information. Less than 100 pages of text, pictures and figure drawings are divided into ten chapters of unequal length. Those who were gifted at drawing or painting might contribute a picture. Synonyms painting, drawing, sketch, print, canvas, delineation, cartoon, portrait, portrayal, illustration, artist's impression, artwork, depiction, likeness, representation, image, icon 1.1 A photograph. 照片 we were warned not to take pictures 我们被告诫不要拍照。 Example sentencesExamples A production photographer wants to take pictures of us next to the famous Emmerdale sign. Today, most people ask portrait photographers to take pictures of them and their families. The father of one of her friends is a photographer, and he had planned to take pictures of a group of them in their long dresses. A photographer arrives and wants to take pictures of me in the Gallery. Cars are routinely checked, cameras take pictures of licence plates and details of the ownership of a vehicle are matched with the driver. Realising that it would make me look as if I had something to hide, I gave in and just let the photographer take pictures of me. Press photographers were there to take pictures. A friend send me some amazing pictures of 3D pavement drawings. It was time for our actual wedding photographer to take pictures of us and various family members, so we just started doing that. Many church members have photographic equipment to take pictures and shoot video. This camera was controlled by children via the Internet to take pictures of space which were then downloaded into the classroom. And so I asked her if I could take pictures of her for my photography class. A photographer was also summoned, to take pictures of the happy residents living in their sophisticated surroundings. I need a photographer, since I can't take pictures of my face very well. Those days, photographers rarely went to studios to take pictures. Following the reticent trend of the day, he declined to talk to the press and asked photographers not to take pictures. The use of long lens photography to take pictures of people in private places without their consent is also forbidden. The photographer wants to take pictures of me with my laptop. The photographers want to take pictures of you and your mother together. Speed cameras currently only take pictures of the number plates of speeding cars. Synonyms photograph, photo, shot, snap, snapshot, image, portrait, study print, slide, transparency, negative, positive, plate, film, bromide, frame, exposure, still, proof, enlargement British enprint 1.2 A portrait. 画像，肖像 she had her picture painted 找人给她画肖像。 Example sentencesExamples It was not unusual to be called out of the shop, and see a fair lady who wanted her picture painted. How could these critics of Raphael's unrealistic depictions of the world turn around and paint endless pictures of Ophelia? This won't do," the wife thought, and she went to town to have her picture painted. He then moved to Nigeria, where he lived for nearly 25 years, working as a magistrate and a high court judge and painting pictures of people he met. In fact, Goya was still painting pretty pictures of milkmaids and saucy profiles of his mistress. We've probably seen a picture or a portrait of them, or some depiction, which passes for a portrait. 1.3 An image on a television screen. （电视屏幕上的）图像 television pictures of captured airmen as modifier poor picture quality Example sentencesExamples Fog, frost and even poor television pictures are some of the main problems. He ought to have been made aware of the seriousness of the assault and shown the television pictures before facing the press conference. Anna stood outside beside the exit door, and watched the rows of television screens displaying pictures of the roller coaster ride. He'd just run a story in which psychologists were talking about the impact television pictures of the war might be having on kids. We have seen the television pictures of fishermen dumping dead monkfish, worth thousands of pounds, back into the sea. Live television pictures showed two large fires some 150 meters apart. The resulting television pictures of hungry children in his arms shocked the conscience of the nation. And we stood there just transfixed, as we watched those first television pictures coming in. Around 40 local residents had to be evacuated and television pictures from the scene showed extensive damage to the building. The television pictures showed a substantial amount of debris strewn by the lakeside where many trailers had been parked. Television pictures speak for the themselves - but what happens when you can't show images of disaster, and have to rely on word images? In television the picture stays pretty much the same no matter what size screen you are viewing on. Although the small size is attractive, the poor picture quality rules it out. Just as yesterday, our televisions screens relayed pictures of running battles with police. Television pictures showed the children, some as young as two, to be malnourished, neglected and living motionlessly in dirty cribs. Television pictures showed a bull pinning a man to a wall. Television news pictures bring viewers to the heart of an event and can deliver an understanding of it. From television pictures, I note that his body was found in an open area a few feet away from a heavily wooded area. Computers can be linked using a special modem, and television pictures can be sent and received. The television pictures on Tuesday were nothing short of awful. 1.4 A cinema film. 影片 the movie took five honours including best picture 该电影获得了五项荣誉，包括最佳影片奖。 Example sentencesExamples The included featurette on the filming of the picture is a nice bonus. Bardot started working in pictures that year, getting bit parts in obscure films. There is a rule of thumb amongst movie buffs: the more scriptwriters the worse the picture. Dinosaur becomes the first Disney animated picture in years not to feature any songs. The one flaw, in my opinion, is that they didn't separate out studio releases from art house pictures. There are extensive production notes that describe the huge tented in area used to film much of the picture. It has deservedly won the best picture Golden Globe and will no doubt inspire a new generation to read Virginia Woolf. The picture is free of film defects and artifacts, making for a very smooth look. We fell in love, then she went to France to do a picture for Alain Resnais called La Guerre est finie with Yves Montand. The picture spawned several sequels aimed at the teenage horror market. This is an older film, and like many foreign films, done on a smaller budget than a Hollywood picture. To compete in the packed world of independent film, a picture has to be creative and clever. Some action pictures should dump the script and have the actors shoot at each other. They seem a little too satisfied with the changes they made, but sound like they had fun filming the picture. In the last two weeks, we've watched two of the classic film noir pictures: Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice. This is not intended as an action picture, so don't go expecting fast-paced montages. Both pictures salute the David Lynch school of film, with their penchant for blending reality with dreams. Steven uses things that he learned from independent films and from foreign films back into studio pictures. Filmmakers have been to the Arctic before, shooting action pictures. The only action in his war picture occurs at the very beginning of the film. Synonyms film, movie, feature film British cinema film North American motion picture informal flick dated moving picture 1.5the pictures The cinema. I'm going to the pictures with my mates 我要跟我的伙伴们一块去看电影。 Example sentencesExamples The day of going to the pictures or circus for that special occasion has long gone, and now every child wants a bouncing castle to share with their friends for that big day. In Karen's book, long-time resident Eva tells of going to the pictures. This was the start of going to the pictures with my Grandma. It was then that mothers kept their children from going to the pictures on Saturday afternoon. It is a far cry from first half of the 20th century when going to the pictures was an integral part of a town's social activities. Perhaps, you should go back to the VCD rental shop or forget about the whole business of going to the pictures. Pippa enjoys kick-boxing, bowling, going to the pictures, pubs and clubs. But apart from that, I like hanging out with my mates and going to the pictures. She's been chilling out, listening to music, going to the pictures, reading a lot. I told her when that happened I'd quit going to the pictures. It's relaxing and pleasant - but so is going to the pictures or for a walk in the woods. I like to swim, BBQs and fishing around the lake and going to the pictures. Whereas I don't think I would feel that now if I were going to the pictures a lot. Going to the pictures was a real treat in every way. They were rowdy and shouting - they weren't interested in going to the pictures, they were looking for a fight. Synonyms the cinema, the movies, the silver screen, the big screen North American a motion picture house informal the flicks 2An impression of something formed from a description. 〈喻〉情况，局面，事态；心目中的形象，印象，概念 a full picture of the disaster had not yet emerged 该灾难的整体情况尚不得而知。 Example sentencesExamples It was a really great vision, but it was not the full picture. Be sure to get the full picture by reading the other segments. But reports of battles do not present a full picture of the Republic. Stuff happens, yes, but the news does not present a full picture of reality. But let us hear Socrates out, and get a view of the full picture, as he argues that it would be wrong for him to escape into exile. It's going to take lots more research to get the full picture. The long-term picture is impressive in light of poor mechanisation levels in the country. The abiding problem is to do this but still to show that our often counter-intuitive beliefs are needed to provide the full picture. And it seems like the authors got some key leads but not enough to quite present the full picture. Having read a lot of your work, you still retain that power to create pictures without reams of description. I've only tried to highlight broadly what the policy is about, but you need the company's literature to get the full picture. The full picture of how the government manipulated the legal justification for war, and political pressure placed on its most senior law officer, is revealed in the newspaper today. Figures like this are exceptional in the extreme and give a completely unrepresentative impression of the national picture. The first is to present a fuller picture of himself, one that is more comfortable to the voter. The quick impression is of success, the full picture is of unbridled inadequacy. Synonyms concept, idea, impression, mental picture, view, (mental) image, vision, visualization, notion, theory, abstraction 3archaic A person or thing resembling another closely. 〈古〉酷似的人（或物） ‘How excessively like her brother Miss Morland is!’ ‘The very picture of him, indeed!’ Example sentencesExamples She's the very picture of her. I saw it at once. When I first went into the room I could hardly believe my own eyes. He's the picture of his father, he's a bonny young Irish boy. "He's the picture of his old sire, Lazzarone," he continued, looking the horse over critically. Synonyms personification, embodiment, epitome, essence, perfect example, soul, model rare exemplar, archetype, quintessence verb ˈpɪktʃəˈpɪk(t)ʃər [with object] 1Represent in a photograph or picture. 绘，画；拍摄 he is pictured with party guests Example sentencesExamples Large timbers were used to frame many of the beds pictured on these pages. He also shot images of girls walking home and a 10-year-old girl was pictured rollerblading after he hid behind a wall to film her. In one scene, two homeless men are filmed fighting in a public toilet while another is pictured pulling out his own teeth with pliers. In particular he spots a photo strip picturing his son with this man and presumes from this photographic evidence that the man is his son's murderer. Though they aren't pictured here, they placed highly in tastings. The information is disgusting and false, " said Jack, who was pictured wearing a bright blue shirt. The lanes pictured are representative of at least six independent samples. The competition question was: can you guess what is pictured in the photo below? The most welcome sighting was our first Chipping Sparrow of the year, pictured to the right. The boreal forest also includes dry northern forest, as pictured on pages 28 and 30. Not pictured here, but are included, is the shoulder strap. He is pictured here wearing his second pair of hiking boots. Forget the people you see in front of the camera or pictured on a CD cover. The design, however, would be different from that pictured in this article. He is pictured at the party with former employees. She is pictured in front of the centre with her daughter Adelle. The poem begins along the right edge of a rice paper sheet next to a vertical strip of black and white photographs picturing Cha obscuring her face with her hands. It has proved useful in studying and picturing mountains, skies, rainfall, coastal lines, artificial scenery, and designs and patterns through computers. A calendar picturing semi-naked men, shot in aid of a village school, has caused uproar after proving too hot to handle. "Also pictured in the photo is an object from the collection of the Genesee Country Museum. Synonyms photograph, take/get a photograph/photo of, take someone's picture/photo, take/get a picture of, take/get a snapshot/snap of, take, snap, shoot, take/get a shot of record, film, capture/record on film/celluloid paint, draw, paint a picture of, sketch, depict, delineate, portray, catch (a likeness of), show, illustrate, reproduce, render, represent 1.1 Describe in a certain way. 描绘，描述 biographers have pictured him as a St Francis Example sentencesExamples She was pictured as a woman arched on her toes and fingertips over the earth - her body, a star-filled sky. It is usually pictured in the form of an elk, less often as a bear. He was pictured as black and green, the colors of Nile mud and vegetation. After the failed sacrifice, he was pictured as too weak to fight. He shoots sympathetically, an arresting contrast with the extreme situations pictured. In the film, he's pictured as an often-hard man driven mostly by the painful realities of black culture. He was pictured as a leopard skin-clad dwarf with a huge head, prominent eyes and cheeks, a curly beard and an open mouth with his tongue sticking out. Following the lead of one Thomas Aquinas, it was thought that the unicorn probably had attributes of both: thus he was pictured as being a goat with a horse's head, or having cleft hooves before and solid hooves behind. It is therefore imperative that your staff members know how they are being described and pictured. As far as this cryptic description goes, it pictures things perfectly. Bacchus in early likenesses was a bearded man, but later he was pictured as a youth. The Tree was pictured as having seven roots reaching down into the earth and seven branches extending up toward the heavens, thus symbolizing man's relationship to both earth and heaven. In other words, people are pictured as valuing goods in terms of the bundles of attributes which these possess. I see you're trying to picture this in terms of a cinematic story that can be told on a screen. Now they may be willing to listen to quite a lot of descriptive talk about the objects and events pictured in the books. 1.2 Form a mental image of. 构想，想像 she pictured Benjamin waiting 她想像着本杰明等待的样子。 Example sentencesExamples I always pictured myself working at some high-class clothing store but never a diner. I can almost picture her face reddening and her eyes narrowing. I defy you to picture the scene without making the obvious mental leap. In my mind's eye I could picture him standing at our bedroom door. For a split second he could see the tree that he had pictured in his mind. Selina, even with her wild imagination, never pictured her parents lives to be so dramatic in the beginning. Why not picture yourself in a film and step onto a few of these famous sets? My imagination won't let me picture Marilyn older than her 36 years. Try to picture a Christmas party in which NOBODY gets stupidly drunk. Before every party, I pictured a scene of me talking, me being heard. When I was a student, I'd look at old photographs, and try to picture the scenes behind them. I sit there silently for a moment, picturing this. Perhaps the best way to illustrate how much money this tax cut represents is to picture it as a stack of bills. I could just picture her face on the other line. It means having the imagination to picture the world through the eyes of an 18-year-old. Every time I close my eyes I keep picturing him. She could almost picture the innocent smile plastered on her best friend's face. Generally speaking, one doesn't really picture film directors as an adventurous lot. Then picture him waiting by the window to greet you every morning as you get to work. The stone edge of the quay is still to be seen, and it doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to picture it as it was a century ago. Synonyms visualize, see in one's mind, see in one's mind's eye, conjure up a picture of, conjure up an image of, imagine, conceive, call to mind, image, see, evoke fantasize about, dream about rare envision Phrases be in pictures Act in films or work for the film industry. 〈主北美〉从影，演电影 someone told her she ought to be in pictures Example sentencesExamples If you or your child ever wanted to be in pictures -- this is your chance! Soon we had two camps in our class: those who wanted to be New York actors and those who wanted to be in pictures. Like a lot of youngsters, John decided early on that he wanted to be in pictures. Lottie says, ‘Ten years I've been in pictures and hope to be always in some way or other ’. They say that he's exactly the same now as when he was in radio, which I believe, because he's exactly the same now as when he was in pictures. be (or look) a picture Be very pleasing to look at. Kim looked a picture Example sentencesExamples She heard Jingle Bells on the radio and when she looked up her face was a picture as she realised what she was listening to. The opening chance of the match arrived after all of 18 minutes and it has to be said that the Park surface looked a picture under the glorious sunshine, which shone throughout the game. Yesterday it looked a picture, a different place from the self-conscious, windswept venue of the opening days. The town looks a picture at the moment as you are aware, but there is a substantial cost involved in making all this possible. Maureen looked a picture when she found she got an A-level grade B in photography. Isn't the course looking a picture with the recent rain and watering making it a great joy playing on a golf course that within 12 months will be back to one of the best, with tees and greens to be completed mid-December? The pitch looked a picture, covered by the light dew from the night before. The Stadium looks a picture at the moment - the best I have seen it to date. The stadiums were ready, the security teams were all in place and Athens was looking a picture. My girls looked a picture as flower girls and performed their roles with aplomb. Nora looked a picture in her red suit and gave a wonderful performance - except it wasn't a performance - it was pure natural Nora, and everyone loved it. the big (or bigger or larger) picture informal The situation as a whole. 〈非正式〉整体情况 he's so involved in the minutiae that he often overlooks the big picture Example sentencesExamples Happily glide from the big picture to the detail and back again. These, of course, are two very different areas of the big picture. Decency paves the way, full of home sweet values which too often are overlooked in the big picture. Because of the way institutions work, an engineer ends up working on one part of a system but doesn't get to stand back and see the big picture. Nolan has good reason to be excited but he is doing his best not to let the big game divert attention from the big picture. He sees the big picture of the whole industry, and that generates a lot of respect. If it had been all lovely I might have left with an inability to see the big picture and would missed those pieces I really did enjoy. Their world belongs to the big picture, but even this view can often be clouded by the irritating inconvenience of detail. He loves such words, toying with them, searching out their roots, using them to illustrate the big picture. You're so entangled in it, and so concerned about the details of your current situation, that you miss the big picture. get the picture informal Understand a situation. 〈非正式〉了解情况 any trouble your father might have we can hide—d'you get the picture? Example sentencesExamples I realize that sounds completely revolting, but I think you get the picture. We're undoubtedly not getting the picture as full as it should be. Scott didn't seem to get the picture, his brain still working on understanding what Jesse had just told him. To be honest, I believe it was more difficult to get the picture than to catch the carp. How long do you think it will be before he gets the picture that I want him to go away! I think you're probably getting the picture here. And although the ads continue to be pervasive, she also said that some agencies are getting the picture. Think of the mob with flaming torches in the Frankenstein movie making their way up the mountain to the castle and you've got the picture. If this description inspires thoughts of a huge moon and bright stars, or warm sunrays of yellow and orange, then you are getting the picture. This includes, buses, trains, lifts, public buildings, pubs, restaurants; I think you have probably got the picture. Synonyms understand the situation, work out what's going on, see the light, see daylight, get the point in the picture Fully informed about something. 熟知，知情，知底细 he called Forbes in London to put him in the picture Example sentencesExamples And as soon as the starting pistol was fired readers raced to the telephone and email to put me in the picture. I well remember my first day at senior school, your mates put you in the picture. So if you have a mobile phone you can put it to good use by putting these individuals in the picture. Although I was proud of my parents, I needed some separation from them and to put myself in the picture. I am indebted to a good friend for making sure I am kept in the picture. He will also be asking Smith to meet with the players this week to put them in the picture about what will happen over the coming weeks. He was put in the picture by the amused elderly ladies who gossip every evening in the entrance hall of the block. Blogging fills in the picture of which only a small part is reported by journalists. We just want him to keep us in the picture with what's happening and what kind of deal he's after. Lee also demonstrates the tying of new patterns so that we are kept fully in the picture. Synonyms inform, fill in, give details to, explain the situation to, give information to, explain the circumstances to, describe the state of affairs to, bring up to date, update, brief, keep posted out of the picture So as to be no longer involved in a situation. 不再卷入，不相干 hostages were better left out of the picture 最好不要把人质牵扯进来。 Example sentencesExamples That's me and, I imagine, a few million others, well out of the picture. This pattern of politics leaves people who don't fit into either category completely out of the picture. I told him basically, if he was seeing somebody else, that I was out of the picture. We'd need him out of the picture to release the surplus for spending. His team had been out of the picture in the first half with Hearts dominating possession and carving the vast majority of chances. Well all of that is true, and so most writers trying to convince other people of something tend to leave themselves out of the picture. But when you take the operations chief out of the picture, it does pose a lot of problems. However, he quickly found that he was not achieving results and that the future was in danger of arriving with him out of the picture. However they had two players sent off and faded out of the picture in the second half - even failing to get a single score. I was out of the picture and they were certainly looking to offload. a (or the) picture of — The embodiment of a specified state or emotion. 是…的化身（或典范） she looked a picture of health 她仿佛就是健康的化身。 Example sentencesExamples This young footballer is the picture of health as he helps make a charity soccer tournament a success. I sat in the corner of the kitchen, sipping carefully, the picture of misery. In those cruel, almost harrowing, final few moments, the Celtic manager was a picture of helplessness. He strode into the surgery briskly with no obvious breathlessness; he looked the picture of health. The dancers were a picture of grace, leaping with ease and elegance. He was a dour and industrious man who inspired confidence and was the picture of respectability. The youngster looks a picture of health as she chatters away happily like any normal one-year-old, with a cheeky grin guaranteed to melt your heart. Dolly sat fully erect, tasting the air, the picture of feline contentment. Her face was a picture of concentration and she bit gently on her bottom lip. Apart from that, she was a picture of dignity and grace, with the kind of beauty that grew resplendent with age. (as) pretty as a picture Very pretty. 非常漂亮 Example sentencesExamples ‘She looks pretty as a picture, I think,’ my mother said genuinely and definitively. It was all as pretty as a picture and just a little too good to be true. She was a little bit on the cuddly side, but pretty as a picture. The world really is as pretty as a picture for the professor, who has recreated the great photographic journeys of the Victorian Age. I'll bet if we saw the technical crew, or even the people at the craft services table, they'd also be pretty as a picture. I walked over to him, pretty as a picture, meek as a mouse. He doesn't put Austen on a pedestal and he doesn't make a film that is pretty as a picture but lacking in any sense of vitality. She looked pretty as a picture herself out here in the sunshine - a ravishing rose amongst a garden of gorgeous roses. The resulting spring tabletop is as pretty as a picture. She was as pretty as a picture - not beautiful, not stark raving mad like me, just pretty. Synonyms good-looking, attractive, nice-looking, handsome, lovely, beautiful, pretty, as pretty as a picture, stunning, striking, arresting, prepossessing, winning, fetching, captivating, bewitching, beguiling, engaging, charming, charismatic, enchanting, appealing, delightful, irresistible Origin Late Middle English: from Latin pictura, from pict- 'painted' (from the verb pingere). The word picture goes back to a form of Latin pingere ‘to paint’, from which paint and pigment (Old English) also derive. Doan's Backache Kidney Pills, claiming to cure everything from rheumatism to diabetes, were promoted with the advertising slogan every picture tells a story. The first known advertisement using it appeared in the Daily Mail of 26 February 1904. The novelist Charlotte Brontë had anticipated the advertising copy, though: in 1847 she wrote in Jane Eyre, ‘The letter-press…I cared little for…Each picture told a story.’ A caption in the magazine Printer's Ink for 8 December 1927, read: ‘Chinese proverb. One picture is worth ten thousand words.’ There is no evidence at all that it is Chinese, but a picture is worth a thousand words has certainly gone on to be a modern English proverb. Depict (Late Middle English) is from the verb depingere ‘portray’, from de- ‘completely’ and pingere. Rhymes stricture noun.1 phr. Definition of picture in US English: picture nounˈpɪk(t)ʃərˈpik(t)SHər 1A painting or drawing. 画，图画，画片 draw a picture of a tree 画一棵树。 Example sentencesExamples The girl has to stay at home in front of the table every day, drawing pictures and dreaming of going to school with her peers. If you buy the upgrade package the cartoonist will draw pictures of the characters in your book, talking about you. His remarkable piano recitals and penchant for drawing detailed pictures are characteristic of someone with the condition. ‘It's simple,’ he explains, going to the whiteboard and drawing pictures frantically. There are pictures, drawings, and even boxes with additional information. Drawing pictures or making statuettes is also unique to us humans. A table was provided with paper and writing materials, as well as marker pens for drawing pictures. Drawing pictures are top of her list of favourite things at school. The various pictures, drawings and paintings had their captions in Irish. The walls were filled with pictures of birds, drawings, art, and anime. He told us that he loved hockey, baseball and drawing pictures. What about drawing pictures and leaving them in people's letterboxes? Martin's pictures are mostly pen-and-ink drawings with occasional additions of watercolour. More than a dozen original pictures (both drawings and paintings) of the dodo now exist. You can ask the children to create a different ending to the story or draw different pictures to illustrate what they have read. Less than 100 pages of text, pictures and figure drawings are divided into ten chapters of unequal length. Those who were gifted at drawing or painting might contribute a picture. He writes and prints in periodicals verses, drawings and reproductions of pictures which he draws with a brush held in his mouth. Animation is the time-consuming art of drawing pictures in sequences, which, when viewed rapidly, simulate motion. Starting at 9am, practise your drawing skills by painting Easter pictures to add to your Easter holiday memories. Synonyms painting, drawing, sketch, print, canvas, delineation, cartoon, portrait, portrayal, illustration, artist's impression, artwork, depiction, likeness, representation, image, icon 1.1 A photograph. 照片 we were warned not to take pictures 我们被告诫不要拍照。 Example sentencesExamples Today, most people ask portrait photographers to take pictures of them and their families. A friend send me some amazing pictures of 3D pavement drawings. A production photographer wants to take pictures of us next to the famous Emmerdale sign. Following the reticent trend of the day, he declined to talk to the press and asked photographers not to take pictures. It was time for our actual wedding photographer to take pictures of us and various family members, so we just started doing that. Cars are routinely checked, cameras take pictures of licence plates and details of the ownership of a vehicle are matched with the driver. The father of one of her friends is a photographer, and he had planned to take pictures of a group of them in their long dresses. Realising that it would make me look as if I had something to hide, I gave in and just let the photographer take pictures of me. Press photographers were there to take pictures. The photographer wants to take pictures of me with my laptop. I need a photographer, since I can't take pictures of my face very well. A photographer was also summoned, to take pictures of the happy residents living in their sophisticated surroundings. The photographers want to take pictures of you and your mother together. Many church members have photographic equipment to take pictures and shoot video. Those days, photographers rarely went to studios to take pictures. A photographer arrives and wants to take pictures of me in the Gallery. The use of long lens photography to take pictures of people in private places without their consent is also forbidden. And so I asked her if I could take pictures of her for my photography class. This camera was controlled by children via the Internet to take pictures of space which were then downloaded into the classroom. Speed cameras currently only take pictures of the number plates of speeding cars. Synonyms photograph, photo, shot, snap, snapshot, image, portrait, study 1.2 A portrait. 画像，肖像 have her picture painted 找人给她画肖像。 Example sentencesExamples This won't do," the wife thought, and she went to town to have her picture painted. In fact, Goya was still painting pretty pictures of milkmaids and saucy profiles of his mistress. How could these critics of Raphael's unrealistic depictions of the world turn around and paint endless pictures of Ophelia? We've probably seen a picture or a portrait of them, or some depiction, which passes for a portrait. He then moved to Nigeria, where he lived for nearly 25 years, working as a magistrate and a high court judge and painting pictures of people he met. It was not unusual to be called out of the shop, and see a fair lady who wanted her picture painted. 1.3archaic A person or thing resembling another closely. 〈古〉酷似的人（或物） she is the very picture of her mother Example sentencesExamples "He's the picture of his old sire, Lazzarone," he continued, looking the horse over critically. He's the picture of his father, he's a bonny young Irish boy. She's the very picture of her. I saw it at once. When I first went into the room I could hardly believe my own eyes. Synonyms personification, embodiment, epitome, essence, perfect example, soul, model 1.4 An impression of something formed from an account or description. 〈喻〉情况，局面，事态；心目中的形象，印象，概念 a full picture of the disaster had not yet emerged 该灾难的整体情况尚不得而知。 Example sentencesExamples Be sure to get the full picture by reading the other segments. Stuff happens, yes, but the news does not present a full picture of reality. It's going to take lots more research to get the full picture. And it seems like the authors got some key leads but not enough to quite present the full picture. But let us hear Socrates out, and get a view of the full picture, as he argues that it would be wrong for him to escape into exile. But reports of battles do not present a full picture of the Republic. The quick impression is of success, the full picture is of unbridled inadequacy. Figures like this are exceptional in the extreme and give a completely unrepresentative impression of the national picture. Having read a lot of your work, you still retain that power to create pictures without reams of description. The abiding problem is to do this but still to show that our often counter-intuitive beliefs are needed to provide the full picture. I've only tried to highlight broadly what the policy is about, but you need the company's literature to get the full picture. It was a really great vision, but it was not the full picture. The first is to present a fuller picture of himself, one that is more comfortable to the voter. The full picture of how the government manipulated the legal justification for war, and political pressure placed on its most senior law officer, is revealed in the newspaper today. The long-term picture is impressive in light of poor mechanisation levels in the country. Synonyms concept, idea, impression, mental picture, view, image, mental image, vision, visualization, notion, theory, abstraction 1.5 An image on a television screen. （电视屏幕上的）图像 Example sentencesExamples He ought to have been made aware of the seriousness of the assault and shown the television pictures before facing the press conference. Live television pictures showed two large fires some 150 meters apart. Just as yesterday, our televisions screens relayed pictures of running battles with police. Television pictures showed the children, some as young as two, to be malnourished, neglected and living motionlessly in dirty cribs. The television pictures showed a substantial amount of debris strewn by the lakeside where many trailers had been parked. Although the small size is attractive, the poor picture quality rules it out. From television pictures, I note that his body was found in an open area a few feet away from a heavily wooded area. The television pictures on Tuesday were nothing short of awful. Computers can be linked using a special modem, and television pictures can be sent and received. In television the picture stays pretty much the same no matter what size screen you are viewing on. Around 40 local residents had to be evacuated and television pictures from the scene showed extensive damage to the building. Television pictures speak for the themselves - but what happens when you can't show images of disaster, and have to rely on word images? He'd just run a story in which psychologists were talking about the impact television pictures of the war might be having on kids. We have seen the television pictures of fishermen dumping dead monkfish, worth thousands of pounds, back into the sea. Anna stood outside beside the exit door, and watched the rows of television screens displaying pictures of the roller coaster ride. Fog, frost and even poor television pictures are some of the main problems. Television pictures showed a bull pinning a man to a wall. The resulting television pictures of hungry children in his arms shocked the conscience of the nation. Television news pictures bring viewers to the heart of an event and can deliver an understanding of it. And we stood there just transfixed, as we watched those first television pictures coming in. 1.6 A movie. it took five honors, including best picture 该电影获得了五项荣誉，包括最佳影片奖。 Example sentencesExamples The film won nine Oscars, including a Best Editing Oscar for Murch, and best picture. Expect to see this movie nabbing the Oscar next year for best picture and best original song. It is certainly rare to see a horror movie, like The Sixth Sense, up for best picture. The picture doesn't include explicit nudity, but it's about as close as you can get. But then the movie soon deteriorates into a sub - standard horror picture. The movies or pictures as they were called then were the only night out for the locals, many of whom were non-drinkers. His love of those old movies is evident in every frame this picture. Synonyms film, movie, feature film 1.7the pictures The movies. I'm going to the pictures with my buddies 我要跟我的伙伴们一块去看电影。 Example sentencesExamples As a teenager, going to the pictures was the thing that everyone did. Even if you weren't going to the pictures, it was impossible not to notice how many people were waiting outside most of the cinemas for the film to start. This was the start of going to the pictures with my Grandma. As well as fasting, we had to give up certain luxuries as a Lenten sacrifice, giving up sweets was bad enough, but giving up going to the pictures was the worst punishment of all. Most of the time, however, I am just glad that going to the pictures has never lost its magic for me. Synonyms the cinema, the movies, the silver screen, the big screen verbˈpɪk(t)ʃərˈpik(t)SHər [with object] 1Represent (someone or something) in a photograph or picture. 绘，画；拍摄 he is pictured with party guests Example sentencesExamples The lanes pictured are representative of at least six independent samples. She is pictured in front of the centre with her daughter Adelle. Forget the people you see in front of the camera or pictured on a CD cover. The information is disgusting and false, " said Jack, who was pictured wearing a bright blue shirt. He is pictured at the party with former employees. It has proved useful in studying and picturing mountains, skies, rainfall, coastal lines, artificial scenery, and designs and patterns through computers. The boreal forest also includes dry northern forest, as pictured on pages 28 and 30. The poem begins along the right edge of a rice paper sheet next to a vertical strip of black and white photographs picturing Cha obscuring her face with her hands. He also shot images of girls walking home and a 10-year-old girl was pictured rollerblading after he hid behind a wall to film her. The design, however, would be different from that pictured in this article. Not pictured here, but are included, is the shoulder strap. "Also pictured in the photo is an object from the collection of the Genesee Country Museum. In particular he spots a photo strip picturing his son with this man and presumes from this photographic evidence that the man is his son's murderer. The competition question was: can you guess what is pictured in the photo below? He is pictured here wearing his second pair of hiking boots. In one scene, two homeless men are filmed fighting in a public toilet while another is pictured pulling out his own teeth with pliers. Though they aren't pictured here, they placed highly in tastings. Large timbers were used to frame many of the beds pictured on these pages. The most welcome sighting was our first Chipping Sparrow of the year, pictured to the right. A calendar picturing semi-naked men, shot in aid of a village school, has caused uproar after proving too hot to handle. Synonyms photograph, get a photo of, get a photograph of, take a photo of, take a photograph of, take someone's photo, take someone's picture, get a picture of, take a picture of, get a snap of, get a snapshot of, take a snap of, take a snapshot of, take, snap, shoot, get a shot of, take a shot of paint, draw, paint a picture of, sketch, depict, delineate, portray, catch, catch a likeness of, show, illustrate, reproduce, render, represent 1.1 Describe (someone or something) in a certain way. 描绘，描述 the markets in London and New York are usually pictured in contrasting terms 人们往往用对照性的语言来描述伦敦和纽约的市场。 Example sentencesExamples After the failed sacrifice, he was pictured as too weak to fight. He was pictured as black and green, the colors of Nile mud and vegetation. It is usually pictured in the form of an elk, less often as a bear. In other words, people are pictured as valuing goods in terms of the bundles of attributes which these possess. As far as this cryptic description goes, it pictures things perfectly. He shoots sympathetically, an arresting contrast with the extreme situations pictured. In the film, he's pictured as an often-hard man driven mostly by the painful realities of black culture. I see you're trying to picture this in terms of a cinematic story that can be told on a screen. She was pictured as a woman arched on her toes and fingertips over the earth - her body, a star-filled sky. Following the lead of one Thomas Aquinas, it was thought that the unicorn probably had attributes of both: thus he was pictured as being a goat with a horse's head, or having cleft hooves before and solid hooves behind. It is therefore imperative that your staff members know how they are being described and pictured. The Tree was pictured as having seven roots reaching down into the earth and seven branches extending up toward the heavens, thus symbolizing man's relationship to both earth and heaven. He was pictured as a leopard skin-clad dwarf with a huge head, prominent eyes and cheeks, a curly beard and an open mouth with his tongue sticking out. Now they may be willing to listen to quite a lot of descriptive talk about the objects and events pictured in the books. Bacchus in early likenesses was a bearded man, but later he was pictured as a youth. 1.2 Form a mental image of. 构想，想像 she pictured Benjamin waiting 她想像着本杰明等待的样子。 Example sentencesExamples I could just picture her face on the other line. I defy you to picture the scene without making the obvious mental leap. It means having the imagination to picture the world through the eyes of an 18-year-old. Try to picture a Christmas party in which NOBODY gets stupidly drunk. Perhaps the best way to illustrate how much money this tax cut represents is to picture it as a stack of bills. The stone edge of the quay is still to be seen, and it doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to picture it as it was a century ago. I can almost picture her face reddening and her eyes narrowing. I sit there silently for a moment, picturing this. My imagination won't let me picture Marilyn older than her 36 years. Selina, even with her wild imagination, never pictured her parents lives to be so dramatic in the beginning. When I was a student, I'd look at old photographs, and try to picture the scenes behind them. Why not picture yourself in a film and step onto a few of these famous sets? I always pictured myself working at some high-class clothing store but never a diner. Then picture him waiting by the window to greet you every morning as you get to work. Generally speaking, one doesn't really picture film directors as an adventurous lot. She could almost picture the innocent smile plastered on her best friend's face. In my mind's eye I could picture him standing at our bedroom door. Before every party, I pictured a scene of me talking, me being heard. For a split second he could see the tree that he had pictured in his mind. Every time I close my eyes I keep picturing him. Synonyms visualize, see in one's mind, see in one's mind's eye, conjure up a picture of, conjure up an image of, imagine, conceive, call to mind, image, see, evoke Phrases be in pictures Act in movies or work in the motion-picture industry. 〈主北美〉从影，演电影 Example sentencesExamples Soon we had two camps in our class: those who wanted to be New York actors and those who wanted to be in pictures. If you or your child ever wanted to be in pictures -- this is your chance! Lottie says, ‘Ten years I've been in pictures and hope to be always in some way or other ’. They say that he's exactly the same now as when he was in radio, which I believe, because he's exactly the same now as when he was in pictures. Like a lot of youngsters, John decided early on that he wanted to be in pictures. be (or look) a picture Be very pleasing to look at. Example sentencesExamples My girls looked a picture as flower girls and performed their roles with aplomb. Maureen looked a picture when she found she got an A-level grade B in photography. Yesterday it looked a picture, a different place from the self-conscious, windswept venue of the opening days. She heard Jingle Bells on the radio and when she looked up her face was a picture as she realised what she was listening to. Isn't the course looking a picture with the recent rain and watering making it a great joy playing on a golf course that within 12 months will be back to one of the best, with tees and greens to be completed mid-December? The opening chance of the match arrived after all of 18 minutes and it has to be said that the Park surface looked a picture under the glorious sunshine, which shone throughout the game. Nora looked a picture in her red suit and gave a wonderful performance - except it wasn't a performance - it was pure natural Nora, and everyone loved it. The pitch looked a picture, covered by the light dew from the night before. The Stadium looks a picture at the moment - the best I have seen it to date. The town looks a picture at the moment as you are aware, but there is a substantial cost involved in making all this possible. The stadiums were ready, the security teams were all in place and Athens was looking a picture. the big (or bigger or larger) picture informal The situation as a whole. 〈非正式〉整体情况 he's so involved in the minutiae that he often overlooks the big picture Example sentencesExamples Decency paves the way, full of home sweet values which too often are overlooked in the big picture. You're so entangled in it, and so concerned about the details of your current situation, that you miss the big picture. He sees the big picture of the whole industry, and that generates a lot of respect. He loves such words, toying with them, searching out their roots, using them to illustrate the big picture. Happily glide from the big picture to the detail and back again. Nolan has good reason to be excited but he is doing his best not to let the big game divert attention from the big picture. Because of the way institutions work, an engineer ends up working on one part of a system but doesn't get to stand back and see the big picture. If it had been all lovely I might have left with an inability to see the big picture and would missed those pieces I really did enjoy. Their world belongs to the big picture, but even this view can often be clouded by the irritating inconvenience of detail. These, of course, are two very different areas of the big picture. get the picture informal Understand a situation. 〈非正式〉了解情况 Example sentencesExamples How long do you think it will be before he gets the picture that I want him to go away! And although the ads continue to be pervasive, she also said that some agencies are getting the picture. If this description inspires thoughts of a huge moon and bright stars, or warm sunrays of yellow and orange, then you are getting the picture. We're undoubtedly not getting the picture as full as it should be. Think of the mob with flaming torches in the Frankenstein movie making their way up the mountain to the castle and you've got the picture. To be honest, I believe it was more difficult to get the picture than to catch the carp. Scott didn't seem to get the picture, his brain still working on understanding what Jesse had just told him. I think you're probably getting the picture here. This includes, buses, trains, lifts, public buildings, pubs, restaurants; I think you have probably got the picture. I realize that sounds completely revolting, but I think you get the picture. Synonyms understand the situation, work out what's going on, see the light, see daylight, get the point in the picture Fully informed about something. 熟知，知情，知底细 Example sentencesExamples I well remember my first day at senior school, your mates put you in the picture. Lee also demonstrates the tying of new patterns so that we are kept fully in the picture. And as soon as the starting pistol was fired readers raced to the telephone and email to put me in the picture. Although I was proud of my parents, I needed some separation from them and to put myself in the picture. So if you have a mobile phone you can put it to good use by putting these individuals in the picture. Blogging fills in the picture of which only a small part is reported by journalists. We just want him to keep us in the picture with what's happening and what kind of deal he's after. He was put in the picture by the amused elderly ladies who gossip every evening in the entrance hall of the block. I am indebted to a good friend for making sure I am kept in the picture. He will also be asking Smith to meet with the players this week to put them in the picture about what will happen over the coming weeks. Synonyms inform, fill in, give details to, explain the situation to, give information to, explain the circumstances to, describe the state of affairs to, bring up to date, update, brief, keep posted out of the picture No longer involved; irrelevant. 不再卷入，不相干 hostages were better left out of the picture 最好不要把人质牵扯进来。 Example sentencesExamples That's me and, I imagine, a few million others, well out of the picture. However they had two players sent off and faded out of the picture in the second half - even failing to get a single score. But when you take the operations chief out of the picture, it does pose a lot of problems. This pattern of politics leaves people who don't fit into either category completely out of the picture. However, he quickly found that he was not achieving results and that the future was in danger of arriving with him out of the picture. I was out of the picture and they were certainly looking to offload. I told him basically, if he was seeing somebody else, that I was out of the picture. Well all of that is true, and so most writers trying to convince other people of something tend to leave themselves out of the picture. We'd need him out of the picture to release the surplus for spending. His team had been out of the picture in the first half with Hearts dominating possession and carving the vast majority of chances. (as) pretty as a picture Very pretty. 非常漂亮 Example sentencesExamples She was as pretty as a picture - not beautiful, not stark raving mad like me, just pretty. ‘She looks pretty as a picture, I think,’ my mother said genuinely and definitively. He doesn't put Austen on a pedestal and he doesn't make a film that is pretty as a picture but lacking in any sense of vitality. I walked over to him, pretty as a picture, meek as a mouse. I'll bet if we saw the technical crew, or even the people at the craft services table, they'd also be pretty as a picture. It was all as pretty as a picture and just a little too good to be true. She looked pretty as a picture herself out here in the sunshine - a ravishing rose amongst a garden of gorgeous roses. The world really is as pretty as a picture for the professor, who has recreated the great photographic journeys of the Victorian Age. She was a little bit on the cuddly side, but pretty as a picture. The resulting spring tabletop is as pretty as a picture. Synonyms good-looking, attractive, nice-looking, handsome, lovely, beautiful, pretty, as pretty as a picture, stunning, striking, arresting, prepossessing, winning, fetching, captivating, bewitching, beguiling, engaging, charming, charismatic, enchanting, appealing, delightful, irresistible the (or a) picture of — The embodiment of a specified state or emotion. 是…的化身（或典范） she looked the picture of forbearance 她仿佛就是健康的化身。 Example sentencesExamples I sat in the corner of the kitchen, sipping carefully, the picture of misery. He strode into the surgery briskly with no obvious breathlessness; he looked the picture of health. The dancers were a picture of grace, leaping with ease and elegance. Her face was a picture of concentration and she bit gently on her bottom lip. Dolly sat fully erect, tasting the air, the picture of feline contentment. The youngster looks a picture of health as she chatters away happily like any normal one-year-old, with a cheeky grin guaranteed to melt your heart. In those cruel, almost harrowing, final few moments, the Celtic manager was a picture of helplessness. This young footballer is the picture of health as he helps make a charity soccer tournament a success. He was a dour and industrious man who inspired confidence and was the picture of respectability. Apart from that, she was a picture of dignity and grace, with the kind of beauty that grew resplendent with age. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin pictura, from pict- ‘painted’ (from the verb pingere). noun.1 phr.
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