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icon n.偶像；象征；[计算机]图标 (1) 偶像是别人加到你头上的。(2) 布兰妮的成功使她成了全球歌迷心中的偶像。(3) 他最为人称道的是其主演的西部片,而且成为了美国人永远的偶像。(4) 无尾熊被视为是澳洲的国家象征。(5) 你想打印时就点击一下这个图标。 Icon comes to us from the Greek word eikenai, meaning "to seem or to be like." In certain religions, statues of religious figures are referred to as icons––because they are prayed to as if they were the thing they represent. Icon can also describe a person closely linked to an idea. Mahatma Gandhi is revered as an icon of peace and humanity, while Adolf Hitler is reviled as an icon of violence and hatred.

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英 ['aɪkɒn] 美 ['aɪkɑːn] (1) An icon is something that somebody else makes you.(2) Britney's success has made her an icon to millions of fans all over the world.(3) He is most famous for his Westerns, and became an enduring American icon.(4) Koalas are considered an Australian national icon.(5) Click on the icon when you want to print. An icon is a symbol. It can be literal—–like the little trashcan on your computer screen—–or metaphorical––as in a singer so well known by ten-year-olds, he's called a pre-teen pop icon. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]偶像；代表人物 If you describe something or someone as an icon, you mean that they are important as a symbol of a particular thing.   [usu with supp]Only Marilyn has proved as enduring a fashion icon.只有玛丽莲是常青的时尚偶像。...Picasso and the other icons of modernism.毕加索和现代主义的其他代表人物...the greatest icon of this century.本世纪最伟大的偶像人物2[N-COUNT 可数名词]圣像(如基督、圣母马利亚等) An icon is a picture of Christ, his mother, or a saint painted on a wooden panel. 3[N-COUNT 可数名词]图标 An icon is a picture on a computer screen representing a particular computer function. If you want to use it, you move the cursor onto the icon using a mouse.   [COMPUTING 计算机]

英语单词	icon
英美音标	英 ['aɪkɒn] 美 ['aɪkɑːn]
中文释义	n.偶像；象征；[计算机]图标
英语例句	(1) An icon is something that somebody else makes you. (2) Britney's success has made her an icon to millions of fans all over the world. (3) He is most famous for his Westerns, and became an enduring American icon. (4) Koalas are considered an Australian national icon. (5) Click on the icon when you want to print.
中文例句	(1) 偶像是别人加到你头上的。 (2) 布兰妮的成功使她成了全球歌迷心中的偶像。 (3) 他最为人称道的是其主演的西部片,而且成为了美国人永远的偶像。 (4) 无尾熊被视为是澳洲的国家象征。 (5) 你想打印时就点击一下这个图标。
vocabulary简明	An icon is a symbol. It can be literal—–like the little trashcan on your computer screen—–or metaphorical––as in a singer so well known by ten-year-olds, he's called a pre-teen pop icon.
vocabulary扩展	Icon comes to us from the Greek word eikenai, meaning "to seem or to be like." In certain religions, statues of religious figures are referred to as icons––because they are prayed to as if they were the thing they represent. Icon can also describe a person closely linked to an idea. Mahatma Gandhi is revered as an icon of peace and humanity, while Adolf Hitler is reviled as an icon of violence and hatred.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]偶像；代表人物 If you describe something or someone as an icon, you mean that they are important as a symbol of a particular thing. [usu with supp] Only Marilyn has proved as enduring a fashion icon. 只有玛丽莲是常青的时尚偶像。 ...Picasso and the other icons of modernism. 毕加索和现代主义的其他代表人物 ...the greatest icon of this century. 本世纪最伟大的偶像人物 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]圣像(如基督、圣母马利亚等) An icon is a picture of Christ, his mother, or a saint painted on a wooden panel. 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]图标 An icon is a picture on a computer screen representing a particular computer function. If you want to use it, you move the cursor onto the icon using a mouse. [COMPUTING 计算机]

Icon Computer N Count 可数名词 Enduring Describe Picture 英