1. 图画;绘画;图片
A picture consists of lines and shapes which are drawn, painted, or printed on a surface and show a person, thing, or scene.
e.g. A picture of Rory O'Moore hangs in the dining room at Kildangan.
一幅罗里·奥穆尔的画像挂在基尔丹根的餐厅里。
e.g. ...drawing a small picture with coloured chalks.
用彩色粉笔画一张小画
2. 照片
A picture is a photograph.
e.g. The tourists have nothing to do but take pictures of each other...
游客无事可做,只能互相拍照。
e.g. The Observer carries a big front-page picture of rioters in a litter-strewn street.
《观察家报》在头版刊登了一张暴乱者聚集在满是垃圾的街头的大幅照片。
3. (电视)图像,画面
Television pictures are the scenes which you see on a television screen.
e.g. ...heartrending television pictures of human suffering.
令人心碎的人类遭受苦难的电视画面
4. (在报纸、杂志等上)登载…的照片(或图片)
To be pictured somewhere, for example in a newspaper or magazine, means to appear in a photograph or picture.
e.g. The golfer is pictured on many of the front pages, kissing his trophy as he holds it aloft.
许多报纸的头版上都刊登了那个高尔夫球手高高举起奖杯亲吻的照片。
e.g. ...a woman who claimed she had been pictured dancing with a celebrity in Stringfellows nightclub...
宣称自己在斯特林费洛夜总会和某位名人跳舞的照片上了报纸的女子
5. 影片;电影
You can refer to a film as a picture .
e.g. Warner Communications Inc. has refused to distribute the picture in the United States.
华纳通信公司已拒绝在美国发行这部电影。
e.g. ...a director of epic action pictures.
史诗动作片的导演
6. 电影院
If you go to the pictures, you go to a cinema to see a film.
e.g. We're going to the pictures tonight...
我们今晚要去看电影。
e.g. I'd rather see it at the pictures than on video anyway.
我本来就宁可去电影院看,而不是看录像。
in AM, use 美国英语用 the movies
7. 想象;印象;心中的形象;头脑中的情景
If you have a picture of something in your mind, you have a clear idea or memory of it in your mind as if you were actually seeing it.
e.g. They have in their mind a picture of what an alcoholic should look like...
他们的心中有一个酒鬼应有的样子。
e.g. We are just trying to get our picture of the whole afternoon straight...
我们只是想把整个下午的情形搞清楚。
8. 想象;设想
If you picture something in your mind, you think of it and have such a clear memory or idea of it that you seem to be able to see it.
e.g. He pictured her with long black braided hair...
他想象她留着黑油油的长辫子的样子。
e.g. I never would have pictured this as her home...
我怎么也想不出她的家会是这样。
9. 描述;描绘;写照
A picture of something is a description of it or an indication of what it is like.
picture的意思
e.g. I'll try and give you a better picture of what the boys do...
我会试着更清楚地向你描述一下这些男孩子都干些什么。
e.g. Her book paints a bleak picture of the problems women now face...
她的书是女性当下所面临问题的凄凉写照。
10. 事态;情况;局面
When you refer to the picture in a particular place, you are referring to the situation there.
e.g. But as with other charitable bodies, these figures mask the true picture...
但和其他慈善机构一样,这些数字掩盖了实情。
e.g. It's a similar picture across the border in Ethiopia.
在边界那边的埃塞俄比亚,情况也大致相似。
11. (尤指通过他人描述)弄明白情况,了解情形
If you get the picture, you understand the situation, especially one which someone is describing to you.
e.g. Luke never tells you the whole story, but you always get the picture.
卢克从不告诉你事情的来龙去脉,但你总会弄明白是怎么回事。
12. 牵涉其中/不涉其中;在局内/在局外
If you say that someone is in the picture, you mean that they are involved in the situation that you are talking about. If you say that they are out of the picture, you mean that they are not involved in the situation.
e.g. Meyerson is back in the picture after disappearing in July...
迈耶森在7月份消失后现在又掺和了进来了。
e.g. Sometimes security was so tight that people who might have had something important to offer were left out of the picture.
有时安全措施过于严密,使本来可能会提供重要情况的人成了局外人。
13. (形容模样)健康的化身/痛苦的典型
You use picture to describe what someone looks like. For example, if you say that someone is a picture of health or the picture of misery, you mean that they look extremely healthy or extremely miserable.
e.g. We found her standing on a chair, the picture of terror, screaming hysterically.
我们发现她站在一把椅子上,满脸恐惧地发出歇斯底里的尖叫。
14. 使了解内情;向…介绍情况
If you put someone in the picture, you tell them about a situation which they need to know about.
e.g. Has Inspector Fayard put you in the picture?
法亚尔督察把情况都告诉你了吗?