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 picturesque [,piktʃә'resk]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 生动的, 如画的, 独特的, 别致的, 栩栩如生的



    picturesque
    [ adj ]
    1. suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture

    2. <adj.all>
      a picturesque village
    3. strikingly expressive

    4. <adj.all>
      a picturesque description of the rainforest


    Picturesque \Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F.
    pittoresque. See {Pictorial}.]
    Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture;
    representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate
    to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which
    is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic;
    vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque
    language.

    What is picturesque as placed in relation to the
    beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the
    characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De
    Quincey.
    -- {Pic`tur*esque"ly}, adv. --
    {Pic`tur*esque"ness}, n.

    colorful \colorful\ adj.
    1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.

    Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
    shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing};
    {prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,
    empurpled}]

    Syn: colourful.
    [WordNet 1.5]

    2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of {colorless}
    or {dull}. [Narrower terms: {brave, fine, gay, glorious};
    {flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained}; {flashy, gaudy,
    jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; {picturesque}]
    [WordNet 1.5]

    3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
    as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of {colorless} and
    {monochrome}.

    Note: [Narrower terms: {tinted}; {touched, tinged}; {amber,
    brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; {amethyst}; {auburn,
    reddish-brown}; {aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden};
    {azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue}; {bicolor,
    bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
    bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
    blush-colored, rosy}; {bottle-green}; {bronze, bronzy};
    {brown, brownish, dark-brown}; {buff}; {canary,
    canary-yellow}; {caramel, caramel brown}; {carnation};
    {chartreuse}; {chestnut}; {dun}; {earth-colored,
    earthlike}; {fuscous}; {green, greenish, light-green,
    dark-green}; {jade, jade-green}; {khaki}; {lavender,
    lilac}; {mauve}; {moss green, mosstone}; {motley,
    multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
    painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
    varicolored, varicoloured}; {mousy, mouse-colored};
    {ocher, ochre}; {olive-brown}; {olive-drab}; {olive};
    {orange, orangish}; {peacock-blue}; {pink, pinkish};
    {purple, violet, purplish}; {red, blood-red, carmine,
    cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
    scarlet}; {red, reddish}; {rose, roseate}; {rose-red};
    {rust, rusty, rust-colored}; {snuff, snuff-brown,
    snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
    snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
    brownish-orange}; {stone, stone-gray}; {straw-color,
    straw-colored, straw-coloured}; {tan}; {tangerine};
    {tawny}; {ultramarine}; {umber}; {vermilion,
    vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; {yellow, yellowish};
    {yellow-green}; {avocado}; {bay}; {beige}; {blae
    bluish-black or gray-blue)}; {coral}; {creamy}; {cress
    green, cresson, watercress}; {hazel}; {honey,
    honey-colored}; {hued(postnominal)}; {magenta};
    {maroon}; {pea-green}; {russet}; {sage, sage-green};
    {sea-green}] [Also See: {chromatic}, {colored}, {dark},
    {light}.]

    Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
    [WordNet 1.5]

    1. The picturesque moments, including the Butterfly Dance, the Chair Dance, and the Canaries, are drawn with skill and delight.
    2. Reporters estimated more than 2,000 policemen guarded the grounds of the National Assembly in the picturesque mountain resort of Yangmingshan in Taipei's suburbs.
    3. Bush couldn't have provided a better setting, drawing the state chief executives to the placid, picturesque Blue Ridge Mountain area of Thomas Jefferson's school.
    4. As in hundreds of other towns across Nazi Germany, terror struck Jews in this picturesque village on the infamous "Kristallnacht."
    5. Biblical themes have been fruitful ground for composers, whether to serve as picturesque narrative in the 18th-century style or to investigate universal themes for the present day. The new work was The Death of Moses by Alexander Goehr.
    6. A recent ad promoting a $240 weekend rate at New York's Pierre, part of the Four Seasons Hotels Inc. chain, bears a picturesque view of the hotel as seen from the greenery of Central Park.
    7. Fallen autumn leaves have laid a picturesque golden carpet on the many acres of greensward that set off Harrogate's fine Victorian and Edwardian buildings.
    8. Yet the prevailing tone is fairytale-exotic, wry but picturesque. In this concert-performance, Mstislav Rostropovich and the London Symphony preserved the ambiguous balance while revelling in Rimsky's opulent orchestral palette.
    9. That is all to the good: picturesque ramparts are not what the play needs.
    10. The ethnic Hungarians, known in Romania as Magyars, live in a 21,000-square-mile area of some of the most picturesque mountain and farm land in the Balkans.
    11. Mrs. Gorbachev later visited the picturesque city of Linz on the Rhine River with Kohl's wife, Hannelore.
    12. Lecat proposed a five-year, $30 million plan to turn the picturesque complex into a cultural facility to accomodate about 400,000 visitors yearly.
    13. The detonation beneath this picturesque, 7,500-foot mesa had 12 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb.
    14. Abbado concentrates on making the score sound limpid and lustrous, the scoring substantial and picturesque: buoyant rhythms pick up swirling sea-breezes, delicately fashioned phrasing catches fountain ripples, the scent of evening air.
    15. In a jammed tent city in picturesque Bavaria, Uwe and Norma Koenig eagerly scan a bulletin board offering jobs ranging from bakers' assistants to electricians.
    16. For Samuel Palmer and Edward Calvert, whose wood-engravings perhaps sit slightly oddly in the show, the landscape was the work of a divine intelligence. Harvest was not only picturesque but a potent symbol of God's mercy and man's virtuous toil.
    17. Two visions of Vermont have collided in this picturesque hilltop village of austere white buildings and a village green.
    18. It is not simply by a quality of the picturesque, for both France and England have quaint and historic towns, all still quite artist-free in any proper art-historical sense.
    19. The picturesque village in the Rila Mountains is near Mount Moussala, at 9,652 feet the highest peak in Bulgaria.
    20. The one-hour show is filmed on location in Europe _ London one week, then off to Paris, Rome, Greece and other romantic places. It's all picturesque background for Whitton and Andrews to get into mischief and swap roundhouse punches and makeup kisses.
    21. While watching the television news recently, Brazilians were struck dumb by the image of a vacationer in Bermuda shorts being menaced by the populace at a tranquil beach resort in the picturesque south of the country.
    22. The world headquarters for the Federation for a Democratic China is a small office in a quiet, picturesque Paris neighborhood.
    23. "It's dramatized but it's not drama; it's history, but it's not a history lesson," Eaton said in an interview before flying to the Isle of Man, a picturesque if blustery island in the Irish Sea 30 miles west of England.
    24. In addition, several hundred troops and policemen remained around Tirgu Mures, a picturesque Transylvanian town of 170,000 people.
    25. He understands how the work's two mighty outer movements and its four picturesque inner ones hang together; he commands their individual sound-worlds and dramatic canvas.
    26. Now, it's not tragedy, but technology that threatens to force Dever to leave his post on this rocky, picturesque islet.
    27. Fountains' first secularisation came at the dissolution; its second in the 18th century when John Aislabie and his son laid turf in the fields around the abbey and incorporated the ruin as a picturesque fragment in their new landscape gardens.
    28. The temple is in a northeast region called Sorak, or "Snow Hills," a tourist idyll of picturesque mountains, forests, waterfalls and deep ravines.
    29. Star of the Sea Church was moved as a lava flow burned through the heart of this picturesque beach town Friday, more than seven years after Kilauea Volcano began its latest eruption.
    30. On the roads north-west from Ljubljana towards the border with Austria, the picturesque lakeside town of Bled, and Slovenia's best skiing, each bridge sprouts a cluster of heavy concrete pyramid-shaped tank-traps.
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