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  • Conjugation : past  pictured ; ing  picturing
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

picture ['pɪktʃər]
  1. 1. noun [c] (painting,drawing,print) 画
  2. 2. noun (photograph) 照片
  3. 3. noun [Television] 图像
  4. 4. noun (film,movie) 电影
  5. 5. noun [fig] (description) 描绘
  6. 6. noun (situation) 局面
  7. 7. vt. (imagine) 想像
  8. 8. n pl [BRIT] [inf] the pictures (the cinema) 电影院[美 = the movies]
    to take a picture of sb/sth
    某人/某物拍照
    to paint a vivid/gloomy/bleak {etc} picture (of sth)
    描绘了(某事的)一副生动/灰暗/凄凉{等}的景象
    to put sb in the picture
    使某人非常了解情况
    to get the picture
    [inf] 了解情况
    to have a picture of sth
    非常明白某事
    to be pictured
    照片

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

picture [ˈpɪkʧər]
  1. 1. n.[c] 画像图像
    They showed us the pictures of their wedding.
    他们我们看了他们的婚礼照片
  2. 2. n.[c] 画,绘画
    His pictures hang in the Louvre.
    他的画作悬挂卢浮宫中。
  3. 3. n.[c] 印象形象
    He had no clear picture of himself or his world.
    他对自己自己的生活没有清晰认识
  4. 4. n.[c] 情况局面事态
    The political picture is favorable.
    政治前景光明
  5. 5. n.[c] 图片插图
    The dictionary had many pictures.
    那本字典许多插图
  6. 6. n.[c] 电影影片
  7. 7. n.[c] 图像影像
    They could still receive the sound but the picture was gone.
    他们仍然能接收到声音,但画面消失了。
  8. 8. n.[c] 描绘写照
    The author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland.
    作者描述了一幅令人压抑的波兰生活画面
  9. 9. n.[c] [Singular] 典型化身缩影
    She was the picture of despair.
    就是绝望代表
  10. 10. n.[c] 照片相片
  11. 11. n.[c] [Singular] 美景景色
  12. 12. n.[c] [British English] [Plural] 电影院
  13. 13. n.[c] 相似的形象
  14. 14. vt. 想象设想构想
  15. 15. vt. 画,描绘

Collins English-English Dictionary

picture ['pɪktʃə]
  1. 1. n a visual representation of something, such as a person or scene, produced on a surface, as in a photograph, painting, etc
  2. 2. n (as modifier)
    picture gallery
    picture postcard
  3. 3. n a mental image or impression
    a clear picture of events
  4. 4. n a verbal description, esp one that is vivid
  5. 5. n a situation considered as an observable scene
    the political picture
  6. 6. n a person or thing that bears a close resemblance to another
    he was the picture of his father
  7. 7. n a person, scene, etc, considered as typifying a particular state or quality
    the picture of despair
  8. 8. n a beautiful person or scene
    you'll look a picture
  9. 9. n a complete image on a television screen, comprising two interlaced fields
  10. 10. n a motion picture; film
  11. 11. n (as modifier)
    picture theatre
  12. 12. n another name for tableau vivant
  13. 13. vt. [tr] to visualize or imagine
  14. 14. vt. to describe or depict, esp vividly
  15. 15. vt. [often passive] to put in a picture or make a picture of
    they were pictured sitting on the rocks
  16. 16. vt. [Etymology] C15: from Latin pictura painting, from pingere to paint

Examples

The small picture can be switched over to the main picture.
这个小图可以转换成主图。
A moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject.
火车的运动图像比它的静止图像更为生动。
a class B motion picture
第二等电影
to be the picture of one's mother
跟某人母亲长得一模一样
a picture of the times
对境况作了描写
A picture of a cat on a log is a rebus for "catalog".
画中一段圆木上有一只猫,其画谜底是“目录”(catalog)。

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