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Tableau People Dramatic Describe Living N Count 可数名词 Scene

英语单词 tableau
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
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[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.
  • ...a nativity tableau.

    基督降生的舞台场景

  • ...tableaux depicting the foundation of Barcelona.

    描绘巴塞罗那建城史的舞台造型

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[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.
  • ...Gaudi's luxuriant stone tableau of the Nativity on the cathedral's east face.

    大教堂东面石壁上是由高迪创作的有关基督降生的华丽浮雕

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