picture

cinema, film, movie, picture

describe, represent, sketch, picture

drawing, illustration, cartoon, diagram, picture, sketch, painting, portrait

名词 picture:

1. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
   同义词：image, icon, ikon
2. graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
   同义词：painting
3. a clear and telling mental image
   同义词：mental picture, impression
4. a situation treated as an observable object
   同义词：scene
5. illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
   同义词：pictorial matter
6. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
   同义词：movie, film, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick
7. the visible part of a television transmission
   同义词：video
8. a graphic or vivid verbal description
   同义词：word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, characterization, characterisation
9. a typical example of some state or quality

动词 picture:

1. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
   同义词：visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, image
2. show in, or as in, a picture
   同义词：depict, render, show

1. I can't picture the village without the old church.
   我无法设想村子里没有那座旧教堂像什麽样子
2. The book gives a good picture of everyday life in ancient rome.
   那部书对古罗马人的日常生活描写得很生动。
3. I get the picture you two want to be left alone together.
   我现在明白了－－你们俩想单独在一起。
4. Draw a picture of the house so we know what it looks like.
   画出房子的图来让我们看看是什麽样子的。
5. This book gives a good picture of life in China 100 hundred years ago.
   这本书形象地描写了一百年前的中国生活。
6. May I take a picture of you?
   我可以给你照相吗？

pic.ture

n.（名词）
A visual representation or image painted, drawn, photographed, or otherwise rendered on a flat surface.
绘画，图画：绘画、拍照或用其他方法置在平面上的视觉表现或意象
A visible image, especially one on a flat surface:
景色：视觉意象，尤指平面上的景色：
例句：
the picture reflected in the lake.
湖上映出的景色

A vivid or realistic verbal description:
生动或现实的描写：
例句：
a Shakespearean picture of guilt.
莎士比亚对罪恶的生动描写

A vivid mental image.
心中的生动意象
A person or an object bearing a marked resemblance to another:
酷似；化身：与另一人或物具有极明显相似性的人或物：
例句：
She`s the picture of her mother.
她酷似她的妈妈

A person, an object, or a scene that typifies or embodies an emotion, a state of mind, or a mood:
情绪，心态：代表或具体化一种情绪、心态或情绪的人、物或景色：
例句：
Your face was the very picture of horror.
你脸上显出恐惧

The chief circumstances of an event or time; a situation.
情景：事件或时代的主要环境；情形
A movie.
电影
A tableau vivant.
活人造型，舞台造型
v.tr.（及物动词）
pic.tured,pic.tur.ing,pic.tures
To make a visible representation of.
展示：对…进行视觉上的表现
To form a mental image of; visualize.
构想，想象：使…形成视觉形象
To describe vividly in words; make a verbal picture of:
描述：生动地用语言描绘；制成一幅生动的画：
例句：
He pictured her heroism in glowing language.See Synonyms at represent
他生动地描述了她的英雄事迹参见 represent

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Latin pictôra
源自 拉丁语 pictôra
from pictus [painted] [past participle of] pingere [to paint] * see peig-
源自 pictus [绘画的] [] pingere的过去分词 [绘画] *参见 peig-