| 单词 | animated |
| 释义 | animated (once / 445 pages) adj Something that seems full of life and movement is said to be animated. Animated films for television and movies include cartoons, Claymation, puppets, and computer-generated images, which are all simulations of living things. The Latin animāre "give breath to" is the basis for the word animated. The business of animated films has grown with the advent of computers, but the idea of animating something began long before cartoons and CGI. In Mary Shelley's classic 19th-century novel "Frankenstein," the monster, built of dead parts, is animated by electrical impulses, an idea that "sparked" a fascination with regeneration that survives to this very day. WORD FAMILYanimated: animatedly, unanimated+/animate: animated, animateness, animates, animating, animatingly, animation, animator, inanimate, reanimate/animation: animations/animator: animators/inanimate: inanimately, inanimateness/reanimate: reanimated, reanimates, reanimating USAGE EXAMPLESDr. Appleby was part of a generation of historians who examined the ideologies and beliefs that animated the American Revolution. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) At this point the inclusion of this animated Netflix series on various Best of TV lists seems obligatory. Salon(Dec 31, 2016) “Within the confines of the material, you’ll find that you’re playing real people, as outsized as they may be,” he said, growing animated. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj having life or vigor or spirit an animated and expressive face animated conversation became very animated when he heard the good news Syn|Ant alive enlivened, spirited made lively or spirited full of life, lively, vitalfull of spirit reanimated, revivedgiven fresh life or vigor or spirit unanimated not animated or enlivened; dull lifelesslacking animation or excitement or activity wanlacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness 2adj made to appear to move as living creatures do an animated cartoon animated puppets Syn moving used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion |
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