"Canvas" refers to a strong, coarse fabric used for items like tents and sails, and as a surface for paintings. It can also mean a painting on such material or, idiomatically, to live in a tent.
The word "canvas" primarily refers to a strong, heavy cloth used for making things like tents and bags, and also as a surface for oil painting. It can also refer to a finished oil painting itself or, in a phrase, mean living or sleeping in a tent.
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]帆布Canvas is a strong, heavy cloth that is used for making things such as tents, sails, and bags.
...a canvas bag.
帆布包
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[N-VAR 可变名词]帆布画布;油画布 A canvas is a piece of canvas or similar material on which an oil painting can be done.
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]油画 A canvas is a painting that has been done on canvas.
The show includes canvases by masters like Carpaccio, Canaletto and Guardi.
画展上有卡尔帕乔、卡纳莱托和瓜尔迪等大师们的油画作品。
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[PHRASE 短语](住、睡)在帐篷里 If you are living and sleeping under canvas, you are living and sleeping in a tent.
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Campsites in the New Forest quickly filled up as thousands decided to spend the holiday under canvas.
随着成千上万的人决定到户外宿营度假,新福里斯特的野营地很快人满为患。
Oxford
can·vas/ˈkænvəs; NAmEˈkænvəs/noun1[uncountable ]a strong heavy rough material used for making tents, sails, etc. and by artists for painting on 帆布☞collocationsat
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2[countable ]a piece of canvasused for painting on; a painting done on a piece of canvas,using oil paints (帆布)画布;油画◆a sale of the artist's early canvases那位画家早期油画的拍卖IDIOMunder ˈcanvasin a tent 在帐篷里canvascanvasescan·vas/ˈkænvəs; NAmEˈkænvəs/
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canvascan‧vas /ˈkænvəs/ ●●○ noun
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1canvas (2) [uncountable] strong cloth used to make bags, tents, shoes etc: a canvas bag2[countable] a painting done with oil paints, or the piece of cloth it is painted on: The gallery has a canvas by Paul Cézanne. ‘Four Women on a Bench’, oil on canvas, 19913a broader/wider/larger canvas the whole of a situation, and not just a part of it: These questions must be considered on a broader canvas.4under canvas British English in a tent
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canvas
[ˈkænvəs]canvassed, canvassing, canvases
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n.帆布
adj.帆布制的
vt.用帆布覆盖,用帆布装备
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