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black-figure

/blak-fig-yer/US // ˈblækˌfɪg yər //

黑体字,黑衣人,黑体,黑人

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.

Examples

  • The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.

  • Music is a huge part of the tone of Black Dynamite overall—going back to the original 2009 movie on which the series is based.

  • How far has Congress really evolved on race when in 50 years it has gone from one black senator to two?

  • Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.

  • But in the case of black women, another study found no lack of interest.

  • Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.

  • The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.

  • He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

  • Their opportunities and earnings are relatively small, and in order to live they must figure closely.

  • It was when the face and figure of a great tragedian began to haunt her imagination and stir her senses.