picture /ˈpɪktʃə/ star4 CET4 TEM4 (picturing,pictured,pictures)

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） A picture consists of lines and shapes that are drawn, painted, or printed on a surface and show a person, thing, or scene. 图画

  例：

  ...drawing a small picture with coloured chalk.

  …用彩色粉笔画一幅小画。

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） A picture is a photograph. 照片

  例：

  The tourists have nothing to do but take pictures of each other.

  游客们无事可做，只有相互拍照。

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） Television pictures are the scenes that you see on a television screen. (电视) 画面

  例：

  ...heartrending television pictures of human suffering.

  …令人心碎的人类受难的电视画面。

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  V-T（及物动词） To be pictured somewhere, for example, in a newspaper or magazine, means to appear in a photograph or picture. (在报纸、杂志上) 登载照片 [usu passive]

  例：

  The golfer is pictured on many of the front pages, kissing his trophy as he holds it aloft.

  这位高尔夫球手高举奖杯亲吻的照片被刊登在许多报纸的头版上。

• 5.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） You can refer to a film as a picture. 电影

  例：

  ...a director of epic action pictures.

  …一位大制作动作片的导演。

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） If you have a picture of something in your mind, you have a clear idea or memory of it in your mind as if you were actually seeing it. (头脑中的) 影像

  例：

  We are just trying to get our picture of the whole afternoon straight.

  我们正努力在脑海中理清整个下午的情景。

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  V-T（及物动词） If you picture something in your mind, you think of it and have such a clear memory or idea of it that you seem to be able to see it. 想像

  例：

  He pictured her with long black braided hair.

  他想像她扎着长长的黑麻花辫。

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） A picture of something is a description of it or an indication of what it is like. 描述

  例：

  I'll try and give you a better picture of what the boys do.

  我会尽力给你一个关于这些男孩所作事情的更好描述。

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  N-SING（单数型名词） When you refer to the picture in a particular place, you are referring to the situation there. 局面; 情况

  例：

  It's a similar picture across the border in Ethiopia.

  在边界那边的埃塞俄比亚也是类似的局面。

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  PHRASE（习语） If you say that someone is in the picture, you mean that they are involved in the situation that you are talking about. If you say that they are out of the picture, you mean that they are not involved in the situation you are talking about. 在/不在其中 [v-link PHR, PHR after v]

  例：

  Meyerson is back in the picture after disappearing in July.

  继7月份失踪后，迈耶森又重回其中。

• 11.  

  PHRASE（习语） If you put someone in the picture, you tell them about a situation which they need to know about. 使…了解内情

  例：

  Has anyone put you in the picture?

  有人把内情告诉你了吗？