单词 | documentary |
释义 | documentary (once / 1057 pages) nadj A documentary is a film or video examining an event or person based on facts. The word can also refer to anything involving documents. The idea of documentary as meaning "pertaining to documents" came about at the beginning of the 19th century. Later, it came to mean a factual record of something. On PBS, you'll see lots of documentaries, about everything from baseball to war. Those documentaries are nonfiction films — they're showing true life. However, lots of fictional shows are filmed in a realistic documentary style. If you make a documentary about the U.S. Library of Congress, you'll be documenting lots of historical documents. WORD FAMILYdocumentary: documentaries, documentarily+/document: documental, documentary, documentation, documented, documenting, documents/documental: documentally/documentation: documentations/documented: undocumented USAGE EXAMPLESWe recently watched the excellent documentary “Minimalism,” which is either the obverse of Hallmark’s conservative messaging or runs parallel to it. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) The documentary shows Fisher trekking back and forth up the path to her mother’s home, where Reynolds awaits the cameras with full blow-dry and make-up. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) For months after the documentary was broadcast, I was stopped on a regular basis. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1n a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event Syn|Hyper docudrama, documentary film, infotainment film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture, picture show a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement 2adj relating to or consisting of or derived from documents Syn documental 3adj emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation Syn objective existent, real being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory |
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