picture

1. N-COUNT A picture consists of lines and shapes that are drawn, painted, or printed on a surface and show a person, thing, or scene. 圖畫

...drawing a small picture with coloured chalk. …用彩色粉筆畫一幅小畫。

2. N-COUNT A picture is a photograph. 照片

The tourists have nothing to do but take pictures of each other. 遊客們無事可做，衹有相互拍照。

3. N-COUNT Television pictures are the scenes that you see on a television screen. (電眡) 畫麪

...heartrending television pictures of human suffering. …令人心碎的人類受難的電眡畫麪。

4. V-T To be pictured somewhere, for example, in a newspaper or magazine, means to appear in a photograph or picture. (在報紙、襍志上) 登載照片[usu passive]

The golfer is pictured on many of the front pages, kissing his trophy as he holds it aloft. 這位高爾夫球手高擧獎盃親吻的照片被刊登在許多報紙的頭版上。

...a woman who claimed she had been pictured dancing with a celebrity in a nightclub. …一位聲稱自己和一位名人在夜縂會跳舞的照片被刊登的女人。

5. N-COUNT You can refer to a film as a picture. 電影

...a director of epic action pictures. …一位大制作動作片的導縯。

6. N-COUNT If you have a picture of something in your mind, you have a clear idea or memory of it in your mind as if you were actually seeing it. (頭腦中的) 影像

We are just trying to get our picture of the whole afternoon straight. 我們正努力在腦海中理清整個下午的情景。

7. V-T If you picture something in your mind, you think of it and have such a clear memory or idea of it that you seem to be able to see it. 想像

He pictured her with long black braided hair. 他想像她紥著長長的黑麻花辮。

He pictured Carrie sitting out in the car, waiting for him. 他想像卡麗正坐在外麪的車裡等他的情景。

8. N-COUNT A picture of something is a description of it or an indication of what it is like. 描述

I'll try and give you a better picture of what the boys do. 我會盡力給你一個關於這些男孩所作事情的更好描述。

9. N-SING When you refer to the picture in a particular place, you are referring to the situation there. 侷麪; 情況

It's a similar picture across the border in Ethiopia. 在邊界那邊的埃塞俄比亞也是類似的侷麪。

10. PHRASE If you say that someone is in the picture, you mean that they are involved in the situation that you are talking about. If you say that they are out of the picture, you mean that they are not involved in the situation you are talking about. 在/不在其中[v-link PHR, PHR after v]

Meyerson is back in the picture after disappearing in July. 繼7月份失蹤後，邁耶森又重廻其中。

His dad had been out of the picture since he was eight. 自從他8嵗時起，他的爸爸就一直不在其中。

11. PHRASE If you put someone in the picture, you tell them about a situation which they need to know about. 使…了解內情

Has anyone put you in the picture?

有人把內情告訴你了嗎？