depict

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vt. 描述, 描写

发音

US /dɪˈpɪkt/

词形变化

depicted depicting depicts 三单 depicts depicting 现在分词 depicted 过去式 depicted 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

描述；描画

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

    描绘

    描述

    1994, E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News, vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption), False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Depicted.

    废旧

    Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, London: The Percy Society, 1840, p. 177, I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal, Armed in vertues, as I walk up and doun, The hed of thre ful solempne and roial, Intellectus, memorye, and resoun;

词汇关系

动词

同义词 7

show picture draw describe render portray limn

上位词 5

represent interpret expound exposit set forth

下位词 7

map represent sketch outline illustrate adumbrate delineate

词源

From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.

来源：wiktionary