picturesqueness n. 栩栩如生
- There was a certain charm and picturesqueness about the old cottage.
在他身上我有一些不喜欢的东西。 - The earth appeared old and worn, yet there was a certain barren picturesqueness in the leafless trees that raised their "bare ruined choirs" against the sky.
脚下的土地显得古老而衰竭,叶子掉光了的树枝丫,直耸天际,衬托出满目荒凉的景色。
picturesqueness[ noun ]- the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid
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- visually vivid and pleasing
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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.