| 单词 | out of focus |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of focus P3. Optics and Photography. out of focus: (with reference to an optical image or photograph of something) poorly defined, blurry; (with reference to an optical instrument or camera) adjusted in a way which produces a poorly defined image. Also figurative (cf. in focus at Phrases 2b). Cf. out-of-focus adj. and n. at out of prep. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1786 C. Herschel Let. 2 Aug. in Philos. Trans. 1787 (Royal Soc.) 77 2 The object in the center is like a star out of focus,..and I suspect it to be a comet. 1814 Philos. Mag. 44 463 A fixed star, when the telescope is put out of focus, should always appear..as a truly round circle of fire with a black spot exactly in its centre. 1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man vi Evolution was given to the modern world out of focus. 1937 W. H. Auden in W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland 21 A bunch of photographs, Some out of focus, some with wrong exposures. 1967 R. Rendell Wolf to Slaughter (1970) iii. 29 He turned round and his opalescent eyes seemed to go out of focus. 2005 R. Fisk Great War for Civilisation ix. 363 Bill and Peggy together by the car, slightly out of focus, a picture that must have been taken by me. < as lemmas |
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