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A mural is a picture painted straight onto a wall, inside or outside a building. It is not a canvas you hang up; the wall itself is the surface. Cities have murals on the sides of buildings, and old churches and palaces have them too. Though actually, people sometimes stretch the word to any large wall art, even tiles or a huge printed sheet, but the core meaning is paint on the wall. It is a normal art word — a little more formal than picture, very common in museums and in talk about street art.
壁畫
組成From French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus, wall. So it is simply of the wall.
同家族的字
- intramuralsame Latin murus, wall — inside the walls
- extramuralsame Latin murus — outside the walls
原始詞典資料4 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。
muralnoun/ˈmjʊɹəl/
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A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
- "There was an underpass beside the station which was a difficult area for anti-social behaviour. Again, we got artists involved, and schools and the community to put murals in it, and now the community feels like it's theirs. For a small urban station, it has a really nice modern feel about it."
muraladj/ˈmjʊɹəl/
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Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
- a mural quadrant
- Disburd’nd Heav’n rejoic’d, and soon repaird / Her mural breach, returning whence it rowld.
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Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
- a mural precipice
- Soon the swift horses drew this fair god and goddess nigh the wooded hills, whose distant blue, now changed into a variously-shaded green, stood before them like old Babylonian walls, overgrown with verdure; while here and there, at regular intervals, the scattered peaks seemed mural towers; […]
muralverb/ˈmjʊɹəl/
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To create a mural.
- Today savvy operators and designers are stenciling, streaking, stippling, spattering, sponging, mirroring, muraling and marbleizing their way to wonderful walls.
- Its walls were devoutly muraled by artists from the John Reed Club, a Communist-controlled cultural organization.
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。