Picture

(noun.) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; 'they showed us the pictures of their wedding'; 'a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them'.

(noun.) a typical example of some state or quality; 'the very picture of a modern general'; 'she was the picture of despair'.

(noun.) illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; 'the dictionary had many pictures'.

(noun.) a situation treated as an observable object; 'the political picture is favorable'; 'the religious scene in England has changed in the last century'.

(verb.) show in, or as in, a picture; 'This scene depicts country life'; 'the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting'.

手打:凯西

• One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As the glare of day mellowed into twilight, we looked down upon a picture which is celebrated all over the world. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A motion-picture film is a thin ribbon of transparent pyroxylin plastic or nitrocellulose, which is highly inflammable. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Is it anything about a picture? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And that opens a pretty picture of things, I hope? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Finish one picture, sir, and you are a painter. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• We then have the picture in its finished form. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The taking of the pictures. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The taking of pictures is, of course, one of the interesting phases of the business from a popular standpoint. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• That of the evolution of motion pictures follows. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He delivered the jewels to the Abbot, and then showed him the pictures. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The shepherds that tended them were the very pictures of Joseph and his brethren I have no doubt in the world. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• These pictures are so perfect in detail that, when photographed and enlarged, objects no greater than a blade of grass may be distinctly recognized. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• He pictured the town emancipated from its ugliness and its cruelty--a beautiful city for free men and women. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The house was just such as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• And the young man and the two old men; they, too, were much as he had pictured his own people to be. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It was not so with me; and the question of rank and right dwindled to insignificance in my eyes, when I pictured the scene of suffering Athens. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Night was setting in, and its bleakness was enhanced by the contrast of the pictured fire glowing and gleaming in the window-pane. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• These then were the preparations for a battle, nay, the battle itself; far different from any thing the imagination had pictured. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I have found it difficult, when looking at any two species, to avoid picturing to myself forms DIRECTLY intermediate between them. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

校对:罗尼