| 单词 | tableau |
| 释义 | tableau (once / 2381 pages) n A tableau is a dramatic picture. If you catch a glance into the Oval Office and see top advisers speaking to each other with intensity, you behold a dramatic political tableau. Tableau comes from the old French for "picture, or painted target." We usually use tableau to describe a vivid living scene. If you are a journalist and want to describe the tension in a courtroom, you might write a verbal tableau of the judge, the jury, and the witness box. People used to entertain themselves by doing tableau vivant, or living pictures, by reenacting perfectly the frozen scene of a famous painting. WORD FAMILYtableau: tableaus, tableaux USAGE EXAMPLESThe rink itself was placed on a tableau of the No. 100, signifying both the centennial season for both the Leafs and NHL. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Greely’s handcrafted tableaux do so by bringing the logic of dreams front and center. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) In this image, the juxtaposition with the youngster on his bright red bike creates a bizarre yet compelling tableau. BBC(Dec 25, 2016) 1n any dramatic scene Hyper aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista the visual percept of a region 2n a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting) Syn|Hyper tableau vivant arrangement an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。