| 单词 | word picture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasword picture word picture n. a vivid description in words, presenting the described object to the mind like a picture; cf. word painting n.The expression is not used by Lamartine (see quot. 1835). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > graphic or vivid > a vivid description imagec1522 picture1531 portraiture1592 portrait1596 word picture1835 photograph1841 pen portrait1850 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > short sketch or description portraiture1650 word picture1835 cameo1851 thumbnail sketch1852 vignette1880 pastel1890 1835 Waldie's Sel. Circulating Libr. Best Pop. Lit. ii. 184 The volumes [of Lamartine's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land] consist of a series of ‘Word-pictures’ often startling by their vivid colours, always powerfully sketched. 1846 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Mar. 193/1 ‘Would that Carlyle could now try his hand at the English Revolution!’ was my exclamation, on laying down the last volume of his remarkable ‘History of the French Revolution’, with its brilliant and startling word-pictures still flashing before my vision. 1871 E. M. Lawson Rina Cliffe x. 40 ‘It was a word-picture,’ replied Linda; ‘we can look at it as we cross this last quiet meadow, for I copied a few sentences just to give you an idea of it.’ 1928 Cent. Mag. May 127/1 Which of them has ever told us about it in such moving word-pictures as this young extern? 1968 H. S. Thompson Let. 9 May in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 69 You could probably get a pretty quick and accurate word picture of the situation from Sevareid. 2004 W. Deverell Whitewashed Adobe iii. 98 Clarke explained his whereabouts by drawing a word-picture of mountains, valleys, and waterway grids. < as lemmas |
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