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| /ˈpɪktʃə/ |
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| 1 | C a drawing , painting , or photograph 图片；绘画；照片 |
| I noticed a picture on the dining-room wall. 我注意到餐厅墙上的一幅画。 |
| a children’ s book with bright colourful pictures 带有漂亮插图的儿童书籍 |
| +of She showed me a picture of the house where she was born. 她让我看她出生时所住房子的照片。 |
| a picture of a peaceful country scene 宁静的乡村风景画 |
| draw/paint a picture She asked children to draw pictures of their family. 她叫孩子们画他们的家庭。 |
| take a picture (=to produce a photograph using a camera) I’ ll stand over here, and you can take the picture. 照相 |
| | 1a | an image on a television , video , or computer screen （电视、录像或计算机屏幕上的）图像 | | Some viewers are suffering from poor picture quality on all channels. 有一些观众收看到的所有频道的图像效果都非常差。 | |
| | 1b | an image in your mind （脑海中的）影像，形象 | | I have such happy pictures in my mind of those times. 在我脑海中那段日子的情景是那么美好。 | | a mental picture She had a mental picture of Samuel’ s face. 她脑海中浮现出塞缪尔的模样。 | |
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| 2 | C usually singular a description or idea of what someone or something is like 描绘；描述 |
| +of My friends had a rather distorted picture of my life. 我的朋友们对我生活的了解有失偏颇。 |
| paint a picture (of sth) (=give a description of something) The report paints a rather gloomy picture of life in the inner cities. 描绘（某物） |
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| 3 | C MAINLY AMERICAN a film 电影 |
| It won the award for Best Picture. 它获得了“最佳影片奖”。 |
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| 4 | singular a situation 局面；情况 |
| The picture has changed a lot in the last couple of weeks. 在最近两周内，情况发生了很大的变化。 |
| The general picture was one of neglect and decline. 总体上是疏于管理和衰退的景象。 |
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| - | be/look a picture informal
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| to look beautiful , interesting , or funny |
| 美丽如画；看起来很有趣（或滑稽） |
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| You should have seen her face when she told him: it was an absolute picture! 你真该看看她告诉他的时候她脸上的那副表情：简直太滑稽了！ |
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| - | the big/wider picture
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| a whole or complete situation , including all the things it affects, not just one part of it |
| 全景；总体情况 |
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| - | get the picture informal
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| to understand something , especially something that someone tells you indirectly |
| 领悟某事（尤指被婉转告知的事情） |
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| - | out of the picture informal
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| no longer involved in something |
| 不再插手（某事） |
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| I could have asked Shane to help, but he was out of the picture by then. 我本来可以叫沙恩去帮忙的，但他那时已经不再管这件事了。 |
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| - | put sb in the picture informal
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| to give someone the information they need to understand |
| 让某人知情；让某人了解情况 |
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| Mike here can put you in the picture about how we run the office. 在这里，迈克会让你了解我们是如何管理公司的。 |
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| - | a/the picture of sth
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| used for emphasizing a particular quality in someone’ s appearance |
| （用于突出某人面貌的某一特征）看上去… |
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| He was a picture of wide-eyed innocence. 他瞪大眼睛，一幅不谙世事的样子。 |
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| Words frequently used with picture | | picture 的常见搭配词 | | adjectives | accurate, bleak, clear, complete, confused, detailed, full, gloomy, moving, overall, vivid, | 2 | | verbs | convey, create, give, paint, present, provide, show, | 2 | | | |
| Other ways of saying : picture | | | | | | 各种类型的picture | | | | painting a picture that is made using paints | | 用油彩画的画 | | drawing a picture that is made using a pen or pencils | | 用钢笔或铅笔画的画 | | sketch a picture that you create quickly, often in preparation for a more detailed drawing or painting | | 速写 | | illustration a picture that appears in a book or magazine | | 书或杂志中的插图 | | portrait a picture of a person | | 肖像画 | | photograph or photo a picture that is taken with a camera | | 照片 | | snapshot a photograph that is taken quickly, without someone paying much attention to detail | | 快照 | | print a picture that is made by copying an original picture many times | | 复印（或复制）的照片 | | | |
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