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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.”
描繪、描寫
組成From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō (to paint, to portray). The old idea is painting something fully.
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- 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，原文照列，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;
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。