picturing

1. N-COUNT 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.
   1. 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。
   2. ...drawing a small picture with coloured chalks.
      用彩色粉笔画一张小画
2. N-COUNT 照片
   A picture is a photograph.
   1. The tourists have nothing to do but take pictures of each other...
      游客无事可做，只能互相拍照。
   2. 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. N-COUNT （电视）图像，画面
   Television pictures are the scenes which you see on a television screen.
   1. ...heartrending television pictures of human suffering.
      令人心碎的人类遭受苦难的电视画面
4. VERB （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.
   1. 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。
   2. ...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
   3. The rattan and wrought-iron chair pictured here costs £125.
      这张图片中的铁艺藤椅要价125英镑。
5. N-COUNT 影片；电影
   You can refer to a film as a picture .
   1. 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。
   2. ...a director of epic action pictures.
      史诗动作片的导演
6. N-PLURAL 电影院
   If you go to the pictures, you go to a cinema to see a film.
   1. We're going to the pictures tonight...
      我们今晚要去看电影。
   2. 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. N-COUNT 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.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。
   3. I tried to put the picture from my mind.
      我试图将这幅画面从脑海中抹去。
8. VERB 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.
   1. He pictured her with long black braided hair...
      他想象她留着黑油油的长辫子的样子。
   2. I never would have pictured this as her home...
      我怎么也想不出她的家会是这样。
   3. He pictured Claire sitting out in the car, waiting for him...
      他想象克莱尔坐在外面车里等他的情景。
   4. She pictured herself working with animals...
      她设想自己从事接触动物的工作。
   5. I tried to picture the place, but could not.
      我尽力想象那个地方，但想不出来。
9. N-COUNT 描述；描绘；写照
   A picture of something is a description of it or an indication of what it is like.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。
   3. From the files that have now been released, a truer picture emerges.
      从现在已公布的文件看，真相开始浮现。
10. N-SING 事态；情况；局面
    When you refer to the picture in a particular place, you are referring to the situation there.
    1. 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。
    2. 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. PHRASE （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.
    1. 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. PHRASE 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.
    1. 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。
    2. 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. PHRASE （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.
    1. 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. PHRASE 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.
    1. Has Inspector Fayard put you in the picture?
       法亚尔督察把情况都告诉你了吗？

1. Picturing Apple near bankruptcy is difficult given its strength today.
   看着苹果今日的辉煌，我们很难想象当年它也有濒临破产的窘境。
2. Now we're going to advance our inner vision skills by picturing someone we're presently close to.
   现在，我们要对我们的“内观”能力进行下一项训练，也就是在脑海描绘我们现在很亲密的人。
3. Children with dyscalculia have trouble reading numbers and picturing them in their mind.
   患有计算障碍症的孩子在读数和记住数字方面有困难。
4. You cannot imagine how splendid the micro world is until you fall in love picturing bugs in the garden, different kinds of sand grains, or some tiny corners in our daily lives.
   你无法想象微观世界是多么精彩，除非你爱上拍摄花园里的虫子、不同类型的沙子和一些我们日常生活的角落。
5. Me: But what ocean are we picturing here?
   我：我们想象哪个海？
6. In 2008, Samsung ran a print advertisement picturing a lissome young couple next to a forest road. They have dismounted from their mountain bikes to tend to an injured young deer.
   2008年，三星（Samsung）曾发布过一份平面广告，画面上是一对身段灵活的年轻情侣，他们将山地车停在一条森林公路旁，正在照顾一只受伤的小鹿。
7. Are you picturing a hit?
   你可觉得另有内情？
8. Create a new layer above the eyes-layer and place on it a photo picturing the smoke.
   新建层，放在眼睛层上面，再找一张烟雾的图片。
9. Then I realize that I've seen the house before. I'm not picturing Bahnhofstrasse in my hometown, but another city, or another country.
   然后，我突然想起我曾经见过那座房子，但我想起的不是在我家乡火车站街上的那座房子，而是在另外一个城市，另外一个国家。
10. Choose something you won't have trouble picturing, but something that requires you to focus in order to see it clearly.
    选择一些你不会很难描绘，但是又需要你注意看才能看的更清楚的东西。
11. Use active voice in picturing the reader enjoying the use or performance of the product or service.
    使用主动语态描绘读者于使用或性能的产品或服务。
12. I mean, how much time did you guys spend picturing the size of my hands?
    我是说，你们花了多少时间来描述我手的大小？
13. I'm already picturing a combination of the2 aesthetics as my starting point.
    我脑中已经把这二者的美感结合起来作为我的设计出发点了。
14. You too can champion your cause by mentally picturing positive results.
    你也可以想象积极的结果，以取得事业的成功。
15. Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.
    不管怎样，我老是在想象，有那么一群小孩子，在一大块麦田里做游戏。
16. The wilson's house was far from being the abode of peace that Mary was picturing it to herself.
    威尔逊家可决不是玛丽心中所想象的安乐窝。
17. She abandoned them under a delusion,'he answered;` picturing in me a hero of romance, and expecting unlimited indulgences from my chivalrous devotion.
    “她是在一种错觉下放弃那些的，”他回答，“把我想象成一个传奇式的英雄，希望从我的豪侠气概的倾心中得到无尽的娇宠。
18. He was already picturing himself confined to a wheelchair or spending the rest of his days in a nursing home.
    他已经想象自己被束缚在轮椅上或是在疗养院里度过余生。
19. As the Little Group continued its lesson, I found myself picturing myelin.
    在小队员们继续上课的时候，我发现了我自己的髓磷脂。
20. Day after day Mr Hearst is picturing the president of the United States as a bufoon.
    赫斯特先生日复一日地把美国总统描绘成一个小丑。
21. He remembered things by picturing them in his mind and this, it seems, hindered his intellect.
    他通过在大脑中形成图像而产生记忆，然而这似乎影响了他的智力。
22. As he begins to tell you this story, you start picturing Peggy Sue as a rotting corpse.
    在他开始告诉你这些的时候，你开始想象Peggy，Sue是一个腐烂尸体的样子。
23. The whole time, Nick kept picturing the delicious doughnuts and all of the flavors he could choose from.
    在排队的这段时间里，尼克不断地想象着美味的甜甜圈以及所有他能选择的口味。
24. By picturing, analyzing, and re-imagining a part of the city," Hutopolis "wants to engage preservation and modernization into a dialogue to foster an evolution.
    通过对城市的一部分进行描绘、分析和重新构思，胡同城希望增进老城保存与现代化建设的交融，促进城市的进化。
25. I don't trust a man with curly hair. I can't help, but picturing birds laying sulfurous eggs in there and I find it disgusting.
    我不信任卷发男人。我总觉得鸟会在上面下臭烘烘的蛋，太恶心了。
26. Right now I'm picturing them as dragons.
    现在我正把他们想像成恶龙。
27. The patient is picturing a guy in sweatpants sitting around the house drinking beer.
    病人描绘出了一个穿着短裤闲坐在屋里喝啤酒的人。
28. Mark Twain, in many ways our most representative writer, is admired not so much because of his skill at picturing American life as for his humor.
    马克·吐温，从各个方面来说都是最能代表美国的作家，人们钦佩他善于描绘美国人的生活的技巧，但更佩服他的幽默。
29. We have issued a range of souvenir postcard picturing buildings, views and events of the Expo.
    我们已经发行了一集锦纪念明信片，带有博览会会建筑物、风景和活动的插图。
30. Dictating a passage about one or another character, I always begin by picturing him, or her, in my mind.
    口述一段关于这个人物或那个人物的文字，我总是先在脑海里想象他或她。

noun

1. visual representation as by photography or painting

   Synonym:    pictorial representation

2. visual imagery

   Synonym:    envisioning