- 1描繪、描寫
To depict someone or something is to show them — in a painting, a photo, a film, or in words. A picture can depict a harbour. A book can depict a shy child. A news story can depict a town after a storm. It is a little more formal than show or describe, and you meet it a lot in talk about art, books, and the news. Though actually, depict does not promise that the picture is fair. The media can depict a person as a hero or as a fool; that is still depicting, even when it stretches the truth. You depict a scene, a person, or a life; you rarely use it for “draw up a work plan.”
From the word’s history
From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.
經中古英文 depicten，來自拉丁文 dēpingō 的分詞。
組成From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō (to paint, to portray). The old idea is painting something fully.
同家族的字
- depictionthe noun — the picture or description you make
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
depictverb/dɪˈpɪkt/
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To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
- And by [these Embassadours] he sent to their master a Tent, wherein the history of the Bible was as richly as curiously depicted in needle-work;
- The Spring, when all its beauties rise, I see depicted in your eyes
depictadj/dɪˈpɪkt/
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obsoleteDepicted.
- 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;
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