Picturesque
[,pɪktʃə'resk] or [,pɪktʃə'rɛsk]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; 'a picturesque village' .
(adj.) strikingly expressive; 'a picturesque description of the rainforest' .
加文手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
整理:威尔伯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Beautiful (as a scene in a picture), graphic.
阿曼达錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Comely, seemly, graceful, scenic, artistic, pictorial, graphic
ANT:Unseemly, uncouth, rude, unpicturesque, beautiless, flat, tame, monotonous,dead
編輯:帕特里克
解釋/意思:
adj. like a picture: such as would make a good or striking picture: expressing the pleasing beauty of a picture.—adv. Picturesque′ly.—n. Picturesque′ness.
編輯:马里奥
例句/造句/用法:
- Altogether, ours was a lively and a picturesque procession, and drew crowded audiences to the balconies wherever we went. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It was a lovely drive, along winding roads rich in the picturesque scenes that delight beauty-loving eyes. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- This is the picturesque front, I said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It was not that she wanted them to be more disinterested; but she would have liked them to be more picturesque. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Her picturesque form no longer looms above the desert of the Dead Sea to remind the tourist of the doom that fell upon the lost cities. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Here were the picturesque costumes! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Some people call that picturesque, said Sir Percival, pointing over the wide prospect with his half-finished walking-stick. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The city basked under the noon-day sun, and the venerable walls formed its picturesque boundary. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- It was a picturesque old house in a fine park richly wooded. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It had fifty-four columns around it, but only six are standing now--the others lie broken at its base, a confused and picturesque heap. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The course of the Rhine below Mayence becomes much more picturesque. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- No date--Anchored off the picturesque city of Cagliari, Sardinia. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Because it commands so excellent a view of that picturesque pile. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The greatest example of all search lights, however, is not to be found on the sea, but in the picturesque altitudes of the Sierra Madres in Southern California. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Miss Keeldar smiled, and turned her picturesque head towards the questioner. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Ancient Jericho is not very picturesque as a ruin. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- And he was very picturesque, at least in Gudrun's eyes, sitting soft and close on the slender red mare, whose long tail flowed on the air. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Her picturesque and romantic history stands apart from the general drama of human affairs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The gondolier is a picturesque rascal for all he wears no satin harness, no plumed bonnet, no silken tights. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In your picturesque account of the matter, which I read with great interest some months later, you assert that the wall was sheer. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Last night the scenery was striking and picturesque. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Troops of picturesque peasant girls, coming from work, hooted at us, shouted at us, made all manner of game of us, and entirely delighted me. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It suggests no crystal waters, no picturesque shores, no sublimity. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The old captain was a fine and picturesque type. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Knighthood was becoming a picturesque affectation in the sixteenth century. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In this picturesque dress he looked handsomer than ever, and had quite recovered his bombastic air, which terror had deprived him of during the storm. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Picturesque Arabs sat upon the ground, in groups, and solemnly smoked their long-stemmed chibouks. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Caliphronas is a picturesque freebooter, and simply plunders on a large scale. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
編輯:马里奥