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圖畫；繪畫；圖片
A picture consists of lines and shapes which are drawn, painted, or printed on a surface and show a person, thing, or scene.
例句
A picture of Rory O'Moore hangs in the dining room at Kildangan.
一幅羅里·奧穆爾的畫像掛在基爾丹根的餐廳里。
...drawing a small picture with coloured chalks.
用彩色粉筆畫一張小畫
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照片
A picture is a photograph.
例句
The tourists have nothing to do but take pictures of each other...
游客無事可做，只能互相拍照。
The Observer carries a big front-page picture of rioters in a litter-strewn street.
《觀察家報》在頭版刊登了一張暴亂者聚集在滿是垃圾的街頭的大幅照片。
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（電視）圖像，畫面
Television pictures are the scenes which you see on a television screen.
例句
...heartrending television pictures of human suffering.
令人心碎的人類遭受苦難的電視畫面
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VERB
（在報紙、雜志等上）登載…的照片（或圖片）
To be pictured somewhere, for example in a newspaper or magazine, means to appear in a photograph or picture.
例句
The golfer is pictured on many of the front pages, kissing his trophy as he holds it aloft.
許多報紙的頭版上都刊登了那個高爾夫球手高高舉起獎杯親吻的照片。
...a woman who claimed she had been pictured dancing with a celebrity in Stringfellows nightclub...
宣稱自己在斯特林費洛夜總會和某位名人跳舞的照片上了報紙的女子
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影片；電影
You can refer to a film as a picture .
例句
Warner Communications Inc. has refused to distribute the picture in the United States.
華納通信公司已拒絕在美國發行這部電影。
...a director of epic action pictures.
史詩動作片的導演
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N-PLURAL
電影院
If you go to the pictures, you go to a cinema to see a film.
例句
We're going to the pictures tonight...
我們今晚要去看電影。
I'd rather see it at the pictures than on video anyway.
我本來就寧可去電影院看，而不是看錄像。
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想象；印象；心中的形象;頭腦中的情景
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.
例句
They have in their mind a picture of what an alcoholic should look like...
他們的心中有一個酒鬼應有的樣子。
We are just trying to get our picture of the whole afternoon straight...
我們只是想把整個下午的情形搞清楚。
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VERB
想象；設想
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.
例句
He pictured her with long black braided hair...
他想象她留著黑油油的長辮子的樣子。
I never would have pictured this as her home...
我怎么也想不出她的家會是這樣。
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描述；描繪；寫照
A picture of something is a description of it or an indication of what it is like.
例句
I'll try and give you a better picture of what the boys do...
我會試著更清楚地向你描述一下這些男孩子都干些什么。
Her book paints a bleak picture of the problems women now face...
她的書是女性當下所面臨問題的凄涼寫照。
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N-SING
事態；情況；局面
When you refer to the picture in a particular place, you are referring to the situation there.
例句
But as with other charitable bodies, these figures mask the true picture...
但和其他慈善機構一樣，這些數字掩蓋了實情。
It's a similar picture across the border in Ethiopia.
在邊界那邊的埃塞俄比亞，情況也大致相似。
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PHRASE
（尤指通過他人描述）弄明白情況，了解情形
If you get the picture, you understand the situation, especially one which someone is describing to you.
例句
Luke never tells you the whole story, but you always get the picture.
盧克從不告訴你事情的來龍去脈，但你總會弄明白是怎么回事。
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PHRASE
牽涉其中/不涉其中；在局內/在局外
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.
例句
Meyerson is back in the picture after disappearing in July...
邁耶森在7月份消失后現在又摻和了進來了。
Sometimes security was so tight that people who might have had something important to offer were left out of the picture.
有時安全措施過于嚴密，使本來可能會提供重要情況的人成了局外人。
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PHRASE
（形容模樣）健康的化身/痛苦的典型
You use picture to describe what someone looks like. For example, if you say that someone is a picture of health or the picture of misery, you mean that they look extremely healthy or extremely miserable.
例句
We found her standing on a chair, the picture of terror, screaming hysterically.
我們發現她站在一把椅子上，滿臉恐懼地發出歇斯底里的尖叫。
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PHRASE
使了解內情；向…介紹情況
If you put someone in the picture, you tell them about a situation which they need to know about.
例句
Has Inspector Fayard put you in the picture?
法亞爾督察把情況都告訴你了嗎？
Noun
1. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;
"they showed us the pictures of their wedding""a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"2. graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface;
"a small painting by Picasso""he bought the painting as an investment""his pictures hang in the Louvre"3. a clear and telling mental image;
"he described his mental picture of his assailant""he had no clear picture of himself or his world""the events left a permanent impression in his mind"4. a situation treated as an observable object;
"the political picture is favorable""the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"5. illustrations used to decorate or explain a text;
"the dictionary had many pictures"6. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;
"they went to a movie every Saturday night""the film was shot on location"7. the visible part of a television transmission;
"they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"8. a graphic or vivid verbal description;
"too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures""the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland""the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"9. a typical example of some state or quality;
"the very picture of a modern general""she was the picture of despair"Verb
1. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;
"I can't see him on horseback!""I can see what will happen""I can see a risk in this strategy"2. show in, or as in, a picture;
"This scene depicts country life""the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"