Illustration
[ɪlə'streɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪlə'streʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand.
(noun.) artwork that helps make something clear or attractive.
西莉亚手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
(n.) That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
(n.) A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
編輯:塞格雷
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Elucidation, explanation, exemplification.[2]. Illustrative picture.
伊妮德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- A very simple illustration of the working of a steam engine is given in Figure 128. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A particularly interesting illustration of the results of this art occurred in Austria. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The Branson 15/16 Automatic Knitter, shown in Fig. 292, is a good modern illustration. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In the illustration of the building I have not placed the proper number of studding, but the reader can rest assured that once in 16 inches is not too often. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- An illustration of the next latest type of this machine is presented in Fig. 2. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Accepting your illustration, surely we have one unquestionable virtue in England which is wanting in China. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- An illustration may give it content. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In illustration of this idea he invented a crane, which was erected on Newcastle quay in 1846; another was constructed on the Albert dock at Liverpool, and others at other places. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- He looked like his illustration, as he raised his eyes to Mr. Lorry's face. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Merely to the illustration of _your_ character, said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- A more pronounced illustration is to wet the hands in a basin of water, and then plunge them in the blast of hot, dry air coming from a furnace register. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is seen in the illustration, No. 93. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- A corkscrew is a familiar illustration of the screw. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In Rome it became a science very early, and gave a considerable degree of illustration to those citizens who had the reputation of understanding it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mr. Langton Cole calls attention to the rope truss in this illustration, stiffening the beam of the ship. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Lubbock has recently remarked, that several minute crustaceans offer excellent illustrations of this law. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- A chisel and an ax are illustrations of wedges. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The kitchen coffee grinder and the meat chopper are other familiar illustrations. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- They superseded wood engravings, which for years has been the recognized medium for illustrations to print on a type printing press. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In Figs. 265 and 266 are shown illustrations from the Sixteenth Century, Fig. 265 representing a muzzle loader, and Fig. 266 a breech-loader. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- But this explanation does not account for the failure to use block printing in the case of illustrations and diagrams. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Many familiar illustrations of lenses, or curved refracting surfaces, and their work, are known to all of us. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Simply, by the use of some of the machine types mentioned above, illustrations of which are known in a general way to every schoolboy. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Coal and tar and soot are good illustrations of objects which absorb all the light which falls upon them. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- One of the best modern illustrations of human thought and complicated manual operations contained in automatic machinery is the _Linotype_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The history of literature and art furnishes us with illustrations of remarkable powers of visualization. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The trade signs (and they were almost as many as the shops) were, all, grim illustrations of Want. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The above extracts are good illustrations, however, of scientific opinions up to the end of 1879, when Mr. Edison's epoch-making invention rendered them entirely untenable. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The illustrations show some of the steps necessary before the iron reaches the shipping room. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The illustrations represented in Fig. 177 show the parasites that cause malaria, or fever and ague. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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