| 英语单词 | tableau |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['tæbləʊ] 美 ['tæbloʊ] |
| 中文释义 | n.画面;活人画(舞台上活人扮的静态画面) |
| 英语例句 | (1) The movie was a tableau of a soldier's life. (2) History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这部电影的画面生动地描绘了军人的生活 (2) 历史不过是由罪恶和灾难构成的静止舞台造型罢了。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A tableau is a dramatic picture. If you catch a glance into the Oval Office and see top advisers speaking to each other with intensity, you behold a dramatic political tableau. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Tableau comes from the old French for "picture, or painted target." We usually use tableau to describe a vivid living scene. If you are a journalist and want to describe the tension in a courtroom, you might write a verbal tableau of the judge, the jury, and the witness box. People used to entertain themselves by doing tableau vivant, or living pictures, by reenacting perfectly the frozen scene of a famous painting. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](以静态画面再现历史场景的)舞台造型,人物造型 A tableau is a scene, for example from the Bible, history, or mythology, that consists of a group of people in costumes who do not speak or move. The people are sometimes on a float in a procession.
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词](尤指取材自《圣经》、历史、神话传说的)雕刻作品,绘画作品 A tableau is a piece of art such as a sculpture or painting that shows a scene, especially one from the Bible, history, or mythology.
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