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- a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine漫画, 讽刺画, 幽默画。
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- （亦作cartoon strip）a narrative sequence of humorous drawings in a comic, magazine, or newspaper, usually with captions（刊于漫画册、杂志或报纸之上, 带说明的）连环漫画。
1.2
- figurative a simplified or exaggerated version or interpretation of something〈喻〉（事物的）简略（或夸张）说法（或解释）：
this film is a cartoon of public life in the US
这部电影是美国公众生活的夸张版本
as modifier Dolores becomes a cartoon housewife, reading glossy magazines in a bathrobe.多洛雷丝成了位身着浴衣, 读着时尚杂志的漫画式家庭主妇。
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- a film using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects动画电影, 动画片, 卡通片。
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- a full-size drawing made by an artist as a preliminary design for a painting or other work of art草图, 底图。
with obj.(一般作be cartooned)
- make a drawing of (someone) in a simplified or exaggerated way给…画漫画：
she has a face with enough character to be cartooned.
她有张可供漫画的特色脸庞。
派生词
cartoonish
adjectivecartoonist
nouncartoony
adjective词源
late 16th cent. (in sense 3)： from Italian cartone, from carta, from Latin carta, charta （see CARD1）. Sense 1 dates from the mid 19th cent.