PICTURE1 a picture that you paint or draw2 a humorous drawing3 a photograph4 what you see in a mirror, on a screen, or on water5 the front or back of a pictureRELATED WORDSsee alsoDRAWPAINTCOLOURPATTERNDESIGNDECORATEART/CULTURE1 a picture that you paint or draw 画出的画picture /ˈpɪktʃəʳ/ [countable noun]a painting or drawing 画，图画 Van Gogh's "Sunflowers’ is one of the most famous pictures in the world. 梵高的《向日葵》是世界上最著名的画作之一。 an early picture by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet 一幅法国印象主义画家克劳德·莫奈的早期作品picture of There was a picture of a windmill on the bedroom wall. 卧室的墙上有一幅画着风车的画。somebody's picturea painting or drawing of someone 某人的画像 The house belonged to the Duke of Wellington, and his picture hangs in the hall. 这宅子属于威灵顿公爵，他的画像悬挂在大厅里。draw/paint a picture I didn't know the word in Japanese so I drew a little picture. 我不知道怎么用日语表达这个单词，于是便画了幅小小的图。do a picturespokendraw or paint a picture 【口】画一幅画 Daisy did a lovely picture of a cat at school today. 黛西今天在学校画了一只漂亮的猫咪。painting /ˈpeɪntɪŋ/ [countable noun]a picture that someone has painted 画；绘画作品 an exhibition of paintings by French artists 法国艺术家绘画展 The museum has an impressive collection of early 20th century American paintings. 该博物馆收藏有大量20世纪初的美国绘画作品。painting of a painting of the Grand Canal in Venice by Canaletto 卡纳莱托画的威尼斯大运河 Gaugin is famous for his paintings of native women on the Pacific island of Tahiti. 高更以表现太平洋塔希提岛上的土著女性的绘画作品而著称。do a painting Dali did several paintings of his wife. 达利画了几幅他妻子的画像。drawing /ˈdrɔːɪŋ/ [countable noun]a picture that has been drawn using a pen or pencil 图画；素描 The classroom was bright and cheerful, with childrens’ drawings on the walls. 教室明亮宜人，墙上是孩子们的画作。drawing of On the wall was a drawing of a woman's head by Matisse. 墙上有一幅马蒂斯画的女性头像。do a drawing Degas did a series of drawings of dancers at the ballet school in Paris. 德加画了一系列巴黎的芭蕾舞学校舞蹈者的素描。sketch /sketʃ/ [countable noun]a picture consisting of a few lines drawn quickly with a pen or pencil 速写，草图sketch of I thought your sketches of the garden were very attractive. 我觉得你那些花园的速写很漂亮。do/make a sketch The architect did a sketch of how the building will look when it's finished. 建筑师画了一张建筑建成后的效果草图。quick/rough sketcha sketch done very quickly 速写，草图 Gabriella did a quick sketch of her baby daughter. 加布里埃拉很快画了一张宝宝女儿的速写。illustration /ˌɪləˈstreɪʃən/ [countable noun]a picture in a book, which shows people or events that have been mentioned in the book 插图 The new encyclopedia is full of color illustrations and photographs. 新的百科全书里有很多彩色插图和照片。 Who did the illustrations for the book? They're lovely. 这本书里的插图谁画的？真漂亮。poster /ˈpəʊstəʳ/ [countable noun]a very large picture or photograph printed on paper, which you put on a wall for decoration 海报；招贴〔画〕poster of Anna's bedroom wall was covered in posters of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. 安娜的卧室墙上全是詹姆斯·迪安和玛丽莲·梦露的海报。portrait /ˈpɔːʳtrɪt, ˈpɔːʳtrət/ [countable noun]a painting, drawing, or photograph of a person 肖像；人像照片portrait of A full-length portrait of the Queen hung on the wall. 墙上挂着女王的全身像。paint a portrait The artist Hans Holbein was best known for painting portraits. 画家汉斯·霍尔拜因以肖像画著称。self-portraita picture of the artist done by the artist 自画像 Rembrandt's ‘Self-portrait with feather in cap’ 伦勃朗的《头戴有羽毛的帽子的自画像》 A series of 43 self-portraits by Greek-born American Lucas Samaras (b. 1936) have been donated to the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 希腊出生的美国人卢卡斯·萨马拉斯〔生于1936年〕的43幅系列自画像被捐赠给了纽约现代艺术博物馆。landscape /ˈlændskeɪp/ [countable noun]a painting or photograph showing an area of countryside 风景画；风景照 ‘What kind of photographs do you take?’ ‘Mostly landscapes, and some portraits.’ “你拍什么样的照片？”“大多数是风景照，有些是肖像照。”landscape painter/artist/photographer Constable is probably England's most famous landscape artist. 康斯太布尔可能是英国最著名的风景画家。study /ˈstʌdi/ [countable noun]a small detailed drawing, especially one which is done in order to prepare for a larger picture, or as part of a series of drawings of the same kind of subject 试作；试画study of Renoir did several studies of small plants and flowers. 雷诺阿画了几张植物和花卉的试画。study for The exhibition includes a series of studies by Picasso for his painting Guernica. 展览中包括毕加索为了创作《格尔尼卡》而作的一系列试画。nude /njuːdǁnuːd/ [countable noun]a picture of someone without any clothes on 裸体画 To be honest, I prefer his flower pictures to his nudes. 说实话，与他的裸体画相比，我更喜欢他的花卉作品。 a nude by Picasso 毕加索创作的一幅裸体画2 a humorous drawing 幽默画cartoon /kɑːʳˈtuːn/ [countable noun]a humorous drawing, especially in a newspaper or a magazine, often with a joke written under it 卡通画：漫画〔尤指登载在报纸或杂志上者，常附有一则笑话〕 The cartoon shows a group of elephants trying to get into a phone-box. 这幅漫画表现了一群大象想挤入一个公共电话亭的场面。 a satirical cartoon that appears in the Washington Post 《华盛顿邮报》上的一幅讽刺漫画caricature /ˈkærɪkətʃʊəʳ/ [countable noun]a humorous drawing that makes certain parts of people's faces or bodies seem larger or stranger than they really are, in order to make them look funny 〔人物〕漫画；讽刺画 We had our caricatures drawn by a street artist while we were on vacation in Turkey. 我们在土耳其度假时请了一位街头画家给我们画人物漫画。caricature of Politicians are used to having caricatures of themselves printed in newspapers. 政治家对报纸上刊出讽刺自己的漫画已习以为常。3 a photograph 照片photograph /ˈfəʊtəgrɑːfǁ-græf/ [countable noun]a picture made using a camera 照片photograph of Ansel Adams’ photographs of the American wilderness are now worth thousands of dollars. 安塞尔·亚当斯拍摄的美国旷野风景照现在价值数千美元。take a photograph Visitors are not allowed to take photographs inside the Museum. 游客不准在博物馆内拍摄照片。 My camera's fully automatic and takes really good photographs. 我的照相机是全自动的，拍出的照片非常棒。somebody's photographa photograph of someone 某人的照片 I hate having my photograph taken. 我讨厌别人给我拍照。wedding/passport/ graduation etc photograph The photographer asked all the guests to stand still and pose for the wedding photograph. 摄影师请所有的宾客站着不动，摆好姿势拍婚礼照。photo/picture /ˈfəʊtəʊ, ˈpɪktʃəʳ/ [countable noun]a photograph - use this especially when you are talking about photographs of you, your friends, your family, places you have visited etc 照片，相片〔尤用于谈论本人、朋友、家人或去过的地方的照片〕 Karen showed me a picture of her new boyfriend -- he's very good-looking! 卡伦给我看她新男友的照片一他非常英俊！take a photo/picture Did you take any good photos while you were in Paris? 你在巴黎时拍了好看的照片吗？somebody's photo/picturea photo or picture of someone 某人的照片 Do you want me to take your photo? 你要我给你拍照吗？ I saw her picture in the paper the other day. 几天前，我在报纸上看到了她的照片。snapespecially British/snapshotespecially American /snæp, ˈsnæpʃɒtǁ-ʃɑːt/ [countable noun]informala photograph which you take yourself, for example of your family or on holiday, not one that is taken by a professional photographer 【非正式】快照〔非专业摄影师所摄者〕 They're just snapshots, but some of them are really good. 那些只是快照，但有些真的很棒。take a snap/snapshot Did you take any snaps in Greece? 你在希腊拍过照片吗？snap of She showed me a snapshot of her three children. 她给我看了她三个孩子的照片。holiday snapsBritish Patrick was showing his holiday snaps to everyone in the office. 帕特里克在把他假日里拍的照片展示给办公室里所有人。shot /ʃɒtǁʃɑːt/ [countable noun]a photograph that you take for a specific purpose, often one that you have to go to a particular place in order to take 照片〔常指特意去某处拍摄者〕 I got some great shots of Mount Fuji with the sun setting behind it. 我拍了几张太阳正从富士山背后落下的好照片。take a shot The cars went past so quickly that she only had time to take a couple of shots. 汽车经过时速度很快，她只来得及拍了几张快照。mug shot /ˈmʌg ʃɒtǁ-ʃɑːt/ [countable noun]informala photograph of a criminal's face, taken by the police 【非正式】脸部照片〔指由警察拍摄的罪犯照片〕 The police showed me some mug shots, and I had to say if any of them looked like the man who attacked me. 警察给我看了一些犯人的脸部照片，要我指认貌似袭击我的人。photography /fəˈtɒgrəfiǁ-ˈtɑː-/ [uncountable noun]the art or profession of taking photographs 摄影〔术〕 Chris is studying photography at night school. 克里斯在夜校学摄影。 an exhibition of Irwin Penn's renowned fashion photography for Vogue magazine 欧文·佩恩的著名《时尚》杂志时装摄影展4 what you see in a mirror, on a screen, or on water 镜中、屏幕上或水上所见image /ˈɪmɪdʒ/ [countable noun]a picture on the screen of a television, cinema, or computer 〔屏幕、银幕或电脑中的〕影像；图像 The images on a computer screen are made up of thousands of tiny dots. 电脑屏幕上的影像是由成千上万个小点组成的。 the flickering images of an old silent movie 一部老无声电影闪烁的影像 The digitized images can be stored on a computer hard disk, or printed out on special photographic paper. 数字化影像可以储存在电脑硬盘上或打印到专门的相纸上。reflection /rɪˈflekʃən/ [countable noun]what you see when you look in a mirror or at the surface of water 〔镜子或水面反映出的〕影像 Anna stood looking at her reflection in the mirror. 安娜站着照镜子。 the reflection of the moon on the surface of the lake 湖面上月亮的倒影5 the front or back of a picture 照片的前景或背景foreground /ˈfɔːʳgraʊnd/ [countable noun usually singular]the nearest part of a scene in a picture or photograph 〔画或照片的〕前景in the foreground In the foreground of the picture is a man with a black beard, dressed in rough workingman's clothes and a hat. 那幅画的前景是一个身穿粗制工装、戴帽子、蓄着黑胡子的男人。background /ˈbækgraʊnd/ [countable noun usually singular]the area behind something or someone in a picture or photograph 〔画或照片的〕背景in the background It was a photo of everyone in my class, with the school building in the background. 这是一张我们全班的集体照，背景是学校教学楼。