单词 | cartoon |
释义 | cartoon (once / 884 pages) nv A cartoon makes a brief, funny comment using illustrations and is often found on television, in a newspaper or in a magazine. The Simpsons and Snoopy? Both cartoons. A cartoon can be a satirical or humorous drawing, a series of illustrations (also called a comic strip), or an animated film. Many kids grow up watching new and classic cartoons on TV. Political cartoons manage to sum up an often complex idea in one simple panel. When you criticize a character or a real person for being a cartoon, you mean that they are overly simplified or exaggerated: "I hate that show because all the women are cartoon characters." The word comes from the Italian cartone, "strong, heavy paper." WORD FAMILYcartoon: cartooned, cartooning, cartoonist, cartoons+/cartoonist: cartoonists USAGE EXAMPLESYounger Taiwanese like Japanese food, cartoons and literature, while Japan is Taiwanese people’s top travel destination. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) Mr. Ma, whose multimedia studio, Shizhi Media, produced the taxi cartoon, said about a fifth of its clients were party or state entities. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) Newspaper headlines and cartoons portray her as a self-publicist or a money -grabber. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1n a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine Syn|Hypo|Hyper sketch cartoon strip, comic strip, funnies, strip a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book humor, humour, wit, witticism, wittiness a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter 2n a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence Syn|Hyper animated cartoon, toon short subject a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature 3v draw cartoons of Hyper draw represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface |
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