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- a painting or drawing画, 图画, 画片：
draw a picture of a tree.
画一棵树。
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- a photograph照片：
we were warned not to take pictures.
我们被告诫不要拍照。
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- a portrait画像, 肖像：
have her picture painted.
找人给她画肖像。
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- archaic a person or thing resembling another closely〈古〉酷似的人（或物）。
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- figurative 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。
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- an image on a television screen（电视屏幕上的）图像。
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- 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。
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the pictures
the cinema电影院：I'm going to the pictures with my mates.
我要跟我的伙伴们一块去看电影。
with obj.(常作be pictured)
1- represent (someone or something) in a photograph or picture绘, 画; 拍摄。
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- 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。
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- 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。
短语
be in pictures
- chiefly N. Amer. act in films or work for the film industry〈主北美〉从影, 演电影。
be（或look）a picture
- be beautiful漂亮。
the big picture
- informal the situation as a whole〈非正式〉整体情况。
get the picture
- informal understand a situation〈非正式〉了解情况。
in the picture
- fully informed about something熟知, 知情, 知底细。
out of the picture
- so as to be 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。
a（或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。
(as) pretty as a picture
- very pretty非常漂亮。
词源
late Middle English: from Latin pictura, from pict- 'painted' （from the verb pingere）.