Caricature
['kærɪkətjʊə;'kærɪkətʃɔː] or ['kærɪkətʃɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect.
(verb.) represent in or produce a caricature of; 'The drawing caricatured the President'.
艾伦整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
(v. t.) A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody.
(v. t.) To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.
校对:弗恩
同义词及近义词：
n. Travesty, parody, farce, burlesque, ludicrous representation.
v. a. Burlesque, travesty, parody.
约瑟芬校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Mimicry, parody, travesty, burlesque, extravagance, exaggeration, hyperbole,monstrosity, farce
ANT:Portraiture, representation, resemblance, justice, fidelity, truthfulness
校对:玛拉
解释:
n. a likeness of anything so exaggerated or distorted as to appear ridiculous.—v.t. to turn into ridicule by overdoing a likeness: to burlesque. Formerly spelt Caricatū′ra.—n. Caricatur′ist one who caricatures.
校对:尼古拉斯
例句:
- But it is a caricature of democracy to make it also the law of individual initiative. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- However, a fine thing must not be deplored because it is open to vicious caricature. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Jean-Jacques is in fact a supreme case--perhaps even a slight caricature--of the way in which formal creeds bolster up passionate wants. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It was like some strange caricature of the dapper James Wilder whom we had seen the night before. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- President Butler is, I grant, a caricature of the typical professor. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- When he was gone, Mrs. Becky made a caricature of his figure, which she showed to Lord Steyne when he arrived. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;more narrow-minded and selfish. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Miss Sharp's accounts of his employment at Queen's Crawley were not caricatures. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Five or six had already hatched and the grotesque caricatures which sat blinking in the sunlight were enough to cause me to doubt my sanity. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The modern world deals with the drama of little things, and the individual idiosyncrasy is caricatured instead of the national policy. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I have no taste for bread and butter, she would say, when caricaturing Lady Jane and her ways to my Lord Steyne. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
校对:佩里