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    illustration查询结果如下:

    音标:[ˌɪlə'streɪʃn]
    名词复数:illustrations 词频:高频常用词

    基本释义/说明:n.说明;图解;实例
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    n.
    ①[C]插图;图解;
    ②[C]实例;
    give an illustration of sth
    举例说明某事.
    The teacher cut an apple into four equal pieces as an illustration of what 1/4 means.
    老师把苹果切成四等分作为实例说明四分之一的意义.
    ③[U]具体说明;例证;
    Illustration is often more useful than definition for giving the meanings of words.
    在给字义时,举例常比下定义更有用.
    Illustration by example is better than explanations in words.
    举例说明比文字解释更好.
    -扩展释义
    n.
    1. 说明,图解,图示[U]2. 例,实例[C]3. 插图,图表,图案[C]
    Can you give me an illustration of what you mean?
    你能举例说明一下你的意思吗
    n. 【法律专业】
    插图 ,解说文字,例证
    【医学】 【中医】
    图,图谱,图象
    【海运】
    说明,注解实例,图解,插图例示,例证
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:noun

    例句1. the illustrations in children’s books’

    例句2. the way in which tax relief is obtained can best be described by way of illustration

    -illustration的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
    “If the show is unfocused, the individual works will merely be illustrative of a topic, rather than adding up to some sort of statement.”
    “Their attitude toward the aborted Algerian legislative elections is illustrative.”
    “And let the last word quoted here be one of Elizabeth’s own, illustrative of her strangely mingled temperament of queenliness and insolence.”
    illustrate的过去式和过去分词
    “The first DVD also includes a five-minute illustrated synopsis of the plot and a cast gallery.”
    Serving to illustrate.
    “The Zairean painter was showing illustrational pictures that dealt with informational content.”
    “Schad’s graphic work, often anecdotal and illustrational, is evocative of George Grosz but without the muscle.”
    “More illustrational than painterly in feel, they are still further evidence of Joyce’s playful sensibility.”
    Serving to illustrate.
    “Finally, a member of the research team went through the digital video tapes and used editing software to compile a set of relevant clips as a library of illustratory video.”
    illustrable
    同义词: illustratable
    Capable of illustration.

    名词 变体/同根词

    (rare) A female illustrator.
    “The specific epithet commemorates my botanical illustratress.”
    Abbreviation of illustration.
    a person who draws pictures (especially illustrations in books or magazines)
    “On the side he was a fairly accomplished cartoonist and illustrator and occasionally wrote satires and poems.”
    “Despite a bit of training at the Hartford Art School, Aparo considered himself a self-taught illustrator.”
    “I have been a Scherenschnitte artist for over 27 years, much longer than I’ve been a story book illustrator.”
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