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imagery n.意象；肖像；图像；比喻 (1) 广告公司有事用宗教意象来推销产品。(2) 来自重庆的郝量，将精湛的传统国画水墨技巧与宋代肖像绘画和都铎与伊丽莎白时期的绘画技巧混合在一起，带给观者令人惊奇的视觉感受。(3) 卫星图像显示撒哈拉的沙尘正在向北延伸。(4) 作者的比喻令我迷惑。 Imagery comes from image and originally referred to physical things like statues. Now it is more often used of an artist's or writer's depictions ("Shakespeare's imagery shows a wide knowledge of the world") or of the pictures of the world in someone's mind. Think of imagery as being the stockpile of your imagination. If the imagery in your dreams is a little scary, it might be time to stop eating those spicy meatball sandwiches right before bedtime.

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英 ['ɪmɪdʒəri] 美 ['ɪmɪdʒəri] (1) Advertising agencies sometimes use religious imagery to sell products.(2) Hao Liang, from Chongqing, blends his technical virtuosity in Chinese ink with a macabre vision that intermingles Song Dynasty portraiture with Tudor and Elizabethan imagery.(3) Satellite imagery indicated that dust from the Sahara is spreading westward.(4) The author's imagery mystifies me. Picture this: imagery is a noun to describe the way things or ideas seem in your mind or in art or literature. 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]意象；形象化描述 You can refer to the descriptions in something such as a poem or song, and the pictures they create in your mind, as its imagery .   [FORMAL 正式]...the nature imagery of the ballad.民歌中的自然意象2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](尤指具有象征意义的)图片，意象，形象 You can refer to pictures and representations of things as imagery, especially when they act as symbols.   [FORMAL 正式]This is an ambitious and intriguing movie, full of striking imagery.这是一部气势恢宏、引人入胜的电影，充满了动人心魄的瑰丽意象。

英语单词	imagery
英美音标	英 ['ɪmɪdʒəri] 美 ['ɪmɪdʒəri]
中文释义	n.意象；肖像；图像；比喻
英语例句	(1) Advertising agencies sometimes use religious imagery to sell products. (2) Hao Liang, from Chongqing, blends his technical virtuosity in Chinese ink with a macabre vision that intermingles Song Dynasty portraiture with Tudor and Elizabethan imagery. (3) Satellite imagery indicated that dust from the Sahara is spreading westward. (4) The author's imagery mystifies me.
中文例句	(1) 广告公司有事用宗教意象来推销产品。 (2) 来自重庆的郝量，将精湛的传统国画水墨技巧与宋代肖像绘画和都铎与伊丽莎白时期的绘画技巧混合在一起，带给观者令人惊奇的视觉感受。 (3) 卫星图像显示撒哈拉的沙尘正在向北延伸。 (4) 作者的比喻令我迷惑。
vocabulary简明	Picture this: imagery is a noun to describe the way things or ideas seem in your mind or in art or literature.
vocabulary扩展	Imagery comes from image and originally referred to physical things like statues. Now it is more often used of an artist's or writer's depictions ("Shakespeare's imagery shows a wide knowledge of the world") or of the pictures of the world in someone's mind. Think of imagery as being the stockpile of your imagination. If the imagery in your dreams is a little scary, it might be time to stop eating those spicy meatball sandwiches right before bedtime.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]意象；形象化描述 You can refer to the descriptions in something such as a poem or song, and the pictures they create in your mind, as its imagery . [FORMAL 正式] ...the nature imagery of the ballad. 民歌中的自然意象 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](尤指具有象征意义的)图片，意象，形象 You can refer to pictures and representations of things as imagery, especially when they act as symbols. [FORMAL 正式] This is an ambitious and intriguing movie, full of striking imagery. 这是一部气势恢宏、引人入胜的电影，充满了动人心魄的瑰丽意象。

Imagery Things Pictures N Uncount 不可数名词 Refer [Formal 正式