| 单词 | puzzle-picture |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuzzle-picture puzzle-picture n. ΚΠ 1865 C. T. Brooks tr. J. P. F. Richter Hesperus II. xxvii. 48 They fancy less the enduring but mosaic pictures of Nature, in which whole mountain ridges are the mosaic-pebbles, than the more delicate, but smaller puzzle-pictures of the artists. 1893 Science 17 Mar. 143/2 Our puzzle-picture turns out to be a kaleidoscopic variety and appears in a different aspect to every observer. 1978 Country Life 21 Sept. 850/4 Roy Strong..treated Yeames's And when did you last see your father? as a puzzle picture which ‘leaves us to fill in what has gone before..in a highly tantalizing way’. 2004 J. Schulte in J. Gibson & W. Huemer Literary Wittgenstein ii. viii. 159 You have to see it [sc. poetry] the way you would scrutinize a puzzle-picture, as exhibiting more than one face at a time. < as lemmas |
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