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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary pic·ture
\\ˈpik-chər\\ noun ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Latin pictura, from pictus,past participle of pingere to paint — more at paint DATE 15th century 1. a design or representation made by various means (as painting, drawing, or photography) 2. a. a description so vivid or graphic as to suggest a mental image or give an accurate idea of something the book gives a detailed picture of what is happening b. a mental image 3. image , copy he was the picture of his father she was the very picture of health 4. a. a transitory visible image or reproduction b. motion picture c. plural : movies 5. tableau 26. situation took a hard look at his financial picture
transitive verb (pic·tured ; pic·tur·ing \\ˈpik-chə-riŋ, ˈpik-shriŋ\\) DATE 15th century 1. to paint or draw a representation, image, or visual conception of : depict ; also : illustrate 2. to describe graphically in words 3. to form a mental image of : imagine English Etymology picture c.1420, from L. pictura "painting," from pictus, pp. of pingere "to make pictures, to paint, to embroider," (see paint). The verb, in the mental sense, is from 1738; pictures "movies," short for moving pictures, is from 1912. Picture post-card first recorded 1899. Phrase every picture tells a story first attested 1906, in an advertisement for kidney pills; a picture is worth a thousand words (1921), said to be a Confucian proverb, first recorded in a printers' professional journal. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 ☞ picture pic·ture / 5piktFE(r) / nounPAINTING / DRAWING 绘画 1. [C] a painting or drawing, etc. that shows a scene, a person or thing 图画；绘画: A picture of flowers hung on the wall. 墙上挂着一张花卉的图画。 The children were drawing pictures of their pets. 孩子们在画他们的宠物。 She wanted a famous artist to paint her picture (= a picture of herself). 她想请一位名画家为自己画像。 a book with lots of pictures in it 一本有大量插图的书 PHOTOGRAPH 照片 2. [C] a photograph 相片；照片: We had our picture taken in front of the hotel. 我们在旅馆前照了像。 The picture shows the couple together on their yacht. 照片显示这对情侣一同在他们的游艇上。 Have you got any pictures of your trip? 你有这次旅行的照片吗？ ⇨ note at photograph ON TV 电视 3. [C] an image on a television screen 电视图像: harrowing television pictures of the famine 电视上悲惨的饥荒画面 satellite pictures 衞星照片 The picture isn't very clear tonight. 今晚电视画面不怎么清楚。 DESCRIPTION 描述 4. [C, usually sing.] a description that gives you an idea in your mind of what sth is like 描绘；描述: The writer paints a gloomy picture of the economy. 作者把经济状况描绘得一片惨淡。 The police are trying to build up a picture of what happened. 警方正试图掌握事情发生的经过。 MENTAL IMAGE 印象 5. [C, usually sing.] a mental image or memory of sth 头脑中的情景；记忆；印象: I have a vivid picture of my grandfather smiling down at me when I was very small. 我清楚地记得很小的时候祖父向我低头微笑的情景。 GENERAL SITUATION 局面 6. the picture [sing.] the general situation concerning sb / sth 状况；情形；形势: Just a few years ago the picture was very different. 几年前的情况就大不相同。 The overall picture for farming is encouraging. 农业的总体形势是令人鼓舞的。 MOVIES 电影 7. [C] a film / movie 电影: The movie won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. 这部电影荣获九项奥斯卡金像奖,包括最佳影片奖。 (especially NAmE) I believe her husband's in pictures (= he acts in movies or works in the industry). 我想她丈夫是在影视圈工作。 ⇨ see also motion picture 8. the pictures [pl.] (old-fashioned, informal) the cinema / the movies 电影院；影剧院: Shall we go to the pictures tonight? 今晚我们去看电影好吗？ IDIOMS ▪ be / look a 'picture to look very beautiful or special 好看；悦目 ▪ be the picture of 'health / 'guilt / 'misery, etc. (informal) to look extremely healthy, guilty, etc. 显得非常健康(或内疚、痛苦等) ▪ get the 'picture (informal) to understand a situation, especially one that sb is describing to you 明白,了解(别人描述的情形): 'I pretended that I hadn't heard.' 'I get the picture.' "我装作没听见。" "我明白了。" ▪ in / out of the 'picture (informal) involved / not involved in a situation 在局内/局外: Morris is likely to win, with Jones out of the picture now. 琼斯现已出局,莫里斯极有可能胜出。 ▪ put / keep sb in the 'picture (informal) to give sb the information they need in order to understand a situation 介绍情况；使了解情况: Just to put you in the picture—there have been a number of changes here recently. 只是让你了解一下情况吧,最近这里出现了许多变化。 ⇨ more at big adj., paint v., pretty adj. verbIMAGINE 想像 1. ~ sb (as sth) to imagine sb / sth; to create an image of sb / sth in your mind 想像；设想；忆起: ▪ [VN] I can still picture the house I grew up in. 我还能回忆起我童年时住的那座房子。 We found it hard to picture him as the father of teenage sons. 我们很难想像他居然是有几个十几岁儿子的父亲了。 ▪ [VN -ing] When he did not come home she pictured him lying dead on the roadside somewhere. 他还没回家的时候,她想像着他已横尸路边了。 ▪ [V wh-] I tried to picture what it would be like to live alone. 我努力设想一个人单独生活是什么情景。 ⇨ note at imagine DESCRIBE 描绘 2. [VN] [often passive] ~ sb / sth as sth to describe or present sb / sth in a particular way 描述；描写 SYN portray :
Before the trial Liz had been pictured as a frail woman dominated by her husband. 审讯之前,利兹被描绘成受丈夫操纵的孱弱女子。 SHOW IN PHOTOGRAPH 照片显示 3. [usually passive] to show sb / sth in a photograph or picture 显示在照片上；用图片显示: ▪ [VN] She is pictured here with her parents. 这张照片显示她和父母在一起。 ▪ [VN -ing] The team is pictured setting off on their European tour. 图片显示,这个队正开始欧洲之行。 ▪ [also VN-ADJ] Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English picture noun 1 painting/drawing/photograph ADJ. attractive, beautiful, lovely, striking, stunning, wonderful | blurred | black and white, colour | posed VERB + PICTURE draw, paint | colour in The book has simple stories and pictures to colour in. | frame, hang, mount | display, exhibit, show | pose for, sit for | get, snap, take I got some good pictures of the procession. | touch up PICTURE + VERB depict sth, show sth | hang PICTURE + NOUN frame | book, postcard | gallery | hook, rail | editor PREP. in a/the ~ I can't see you in the picture. The story is told in pictures. | ~ of It's a picture of a country village. • Note at ART 2 mental image ADJ. vivid The book gives a vivid picture of life in Victorian England. | clear | complete, comprehensive, full, general, overall, total, whole The programme was interesting but it didn't give the full picture. | incomplete | broad My visits enabled me to build up a broad picture of the culture. | composite Through interviews and old photos we put together a composite picture of life in the village a hundred years ago. | accurate, balanced, realistic, representative, true | false, misleading, one-sided, over-simplified, unbalanced | idealized, optimistic, rosy | bleak, depressing, dismal, gloomy, grim, negative The report paints a dismal picture of the government's economic record. | confused, distorted | detailed | complex, complicated | disturbing | mental I tried to form a mental picture of the building being described. | historical VERB + PICTURE build (up), construct, create, develop, establish, form, gain, get, obtain, put together They're trying to build up a detailed picture of the incident. | give, paint, present, project, reveal The figures reveal a disturbing picture of the state of our schools. | complete | conjure up The smell of the sea conjures up pictures of children playing on the beach. PICTURE + VERB emerge What emerges is a complex picture of family rivalry. OLT picture verb ⇨ imagine picture noun ⇨ picture (draw a picture)⇨ description (paint a gloomy picture of the economy)⇨ idea 1 (a sudden mental picture)⇨ photograph (take a picture) Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Search result show the entry is found in: living picture , or motion picture , or motion-picture camera , or motion-picture projector , or moving picture , or pen picture , or picture book , or picture bride , or picture card , or picture element , or picture frequency , or picture gallery , or picture hat , or picture house , or picture marriage , or picture mirror , or picture molding , or picture ore , or picture paper , or picture plane , or picture postcard , or picture puzzle , or picture rail , or picture show , or picture signal , or picture tube , or picture window , or picture writing , or program picture , or self-picture , or sight picture , or sound motion picture , or tone picture , or transfer picture , or ultrarapid picture , or blood picture , or word picture , or picture-book , or picture-perfect , or picture-postcard , or picture mold , or picture palace , or x-ray picture , or devil's picture bookpic·ture I. \ˈpikchə(r), -ksh-\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Latin pictura, from pictus (past participle of pingere to paint) + -ura -ure — more at paint 1. obsolete a. : the act, process, or art of painting : representation by painting b. : pictorial representations 2. a. : a representation (as of a person, landscape, building) on canvas, paper, or other surface produced by painting, drawing, engraving, or photography < old pictures of the family > < pictures of the wedding > especially : such representation as a work of art < walls hung with pictures > < picture dealer > b. obsolete : statue , model 3. : a description so vivid or graphic as to suggest a mental image or give an accurate idea of the thing described < he hath drawn my picture in his letter — Shakespeare > < language, our most faithful and indispensable picture of human experience — Susanne K. Langer > < horn and trumpet become parts of a musical picture > 4. a. : something that by its likeness vividly suggests some other thing : copy < the boy is the picture of his father > b. : a concrete embodiment of an abstraction : illustration , symbol < she was the very picture of grief > < the picture of health > 5. a. : a transitory visible image or reproduction due to the working of physical laws or made by utilizing such laws (as with a lens) < adjusting the television set for a brighter picture > b. : motion picture < a Western picture > c. pictures plural, chiefly Britain : movies < have a few drinks with their friends, and a grill, and then perhaps the pictures — Nevil Shute > 6. : a mental image < shocks of corn were dotted about in her mind pictures — Elizabeth M. Roberts > 7. : a picturesque person or thing < the ship was really a picture with all her sails unfurled > 8. : tableau 1 < created a world with his words, and his fine image is never lost because of unnecessary stage pictures — Virginia B. Slaughter > 9. a. : a scene or a set of facts or circumstances immediately present to the attention : a field of observation < in all matters artistic, personal taste enters into the picture — John Gutman > b. : verbal or graphic presentation of a problem or situation < drew an alarming picture of the economic future > c. : pattern , configuration < need more details to understand the full picture > d. : situation < in the spring the employment picture will change > II. transitive verb (pictured ; pictured ; picturing \-chəriŋ, -sh(ə)r-\ ; pictures) Etymology: Middle English picturen, from picture (I) 1. a. : to paint or draw a representation, image, or visual conception of : form a likeness of on a surface : depict < pictured holding a banner aloft > b. : to show a picture of < the room they finished for him is pictured on this page — Kathryn Larson > c. : to present (as a narrative) in pictures or provide with pictures : illustrate < printing, airing, and picturing the news — F.L.Mott > 2. : to represent (something abstract or imperceptible) in visible or symbolic form : portray < illustrated his letters as he did, picturing what he couldn't put so well into words — J.K.Hutchens > 3. : to describe graphically : describe vividly in words < likes to picture the triumph of well-born Nordics over the Canadian wilderness — Malcolm Cowley > 4. : to form a mental image or definite impression of : imagine < the children … were picturing a beautiful, sad face, and the figure of a noble lady moving among her soldiers — Grace Kinnicut > 5. : to photograph for showing as a motion picture Synonyms: see represen |
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