| 单词 | vignette |
| 释义 | vignette (once / 5518 pages) 1n 2n A vignette is a brief but powerful scene. A good vignette leaves you wanting more. Over the centuries a vignette has taken on different forms. Originally it was one of those small sketches you find in the front of old books, often with decorative bands of ivy around its edges (the word comes from the French vigne for vineyard). When cinema came along, a vignette became a quick portrait in film of a character. Some films, like Robert Altman's Short Cuts, are essentially just a compilation of individual vignettes. WORD FAMILYvignette: vignettes USAGE EXAMPLESThis vignette gets its bathetic comedy from the collision of two scales: the immensity of war and its mass casualties hitting against private comforts. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) Using cardboard, plaster, papier-mâché and tempera paints, Greely, 37, builds flimsy vignettes that seem to spring from a grade-schooler’s imagination. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) There were athletes and coaches whose stories touched us, as well as folks connected to the sports world who contributed their own uplifting vignettes. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1 1n a brief literary description Syn|Hyper sketch description the act of describing something 2n a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books) 2Hyper sketch, study preliminary drawing for later elaboration n a photograph whose edges shade off gradually Hyper exposure, photo, photograph, pic, picture a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material |
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