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depiction

/dih-pik-shuhn/US // dɪˈpɪk ʃən //

描写,图画,描绘,形容

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
    • : representation or characterization in words: Mark Twain's letters are a clear depiction of his life and times.
    • : an act or instance of depicting.

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Examples

  • He suspected that she had unconsciously registered the rotting stairs, and her dream was a vivid depiction of the threat.

  • Some of the depictions of landscapes are actual and unaltered.

  • The gorgeous ocean-floor depictions were included as poster-sized supplements in issues of National Geographic magazine between 1967 and 1971.

  • Numerous critics have argued that the burden of an accurate depiction of history would be too unduly heavy for a lightweight story like Bridgerton to bear.

  • By refusing to show us a “true” depiction of the Isu civilization, and viewing it only through the lens of cultures we know, we begin to have a deeper connection to the past, even as the truth remains forever obscured from us.

  • “We prove that the depiction of military in the media is always better with veterans,” reads their website.

  • Next door in Romania, a historical figure nicknamed Vlad the Impaler inspired the first mainstream depiction of a vampire.

  • I would cringe the same way you would if I felt [the depiction was problematic].

  • Dovlatov lived for a long time in Leningrad and gave a loving depiction of it, but nbsp;there is no street named for him there.

  • Black wore a hat with his surname, the A formed by a depiction of the African continent.

  • The elevation in the drawing you have indicated as "A" is a depiction of what?

  • He has pages of clear depiction, even of satire, but the sentimentalist is always lurking just round the corner.

  • I should like the reader to note how complete is Mr. Eliot's depiction of our contemporary condition.

  • But this slight defect is more than atoned for by the power shown in the depiction of character.

  • Each letter is to give an absolutely faithful account of her life, with a perfectly truthful depiction of her real character.