effigy是什么意思_effigy怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture);"the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"
"the emperor"s tomb had his image carved in stone"

中英词源

effigy 雕像

ef-, 向外。-fig, 形成，形象，词源同figure, fiction. 引申义雕像，小雕像。

effigy: effigy: [16] Effigy comes ultimately from the Latin verb effingere ‘form, portray’. This was a compound formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and fingere ‘make, shape’ (source of English faint, feign, fiction, figment, and related to English dairy and dough). It formed the basis of the noun effigiēs ‘representation, likeness, portrait’, which was borrowed into English in the 16th century as effigies: ‘If that you were the good Sir Rowland’s son, as you have whisper’d faithfully you were, and as mine eye doth his effigies witness most truly limn’d and living in your face, be truly welcome hither’, Shakespeare, As you like it 1600.

By the 18th century, however, this had come to be regarded as a plural form, and so a new singular, effigy, was created.
=> dairy, dough, faint, fiction, figment
effigy (n.): "image of a person," 1530s, from Middle French effigie (13c.), from Latin effigies "copy or imitation of something, likeness, image, statue," from or related to effingere "to mold, fashion, portray," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + fingere "to form, shape" (see fiction). The Latin word was regarded as plural and the -s was lopped off by 18c. Especially figures made of stuffed clothing; the burning or hanging of them is attested by 1670s. Formerly done by judicial authorities as symbolic punishment of criminals who had escaped their jurisdiction; later a popular expression against persons deemed obnoxious. Related: Effigial.

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词态变化

复数 effigies;

权威造句

1. The king was burned in effigy by the angry mob.: 国王的模拟像被愤怒的民众烧掉以泄心中的愤恨.

2. Burn a person in effigy.: 焚烧某人的肖像以泄恨.

3. There the effigy stands, and stares from age to age across the changing ocean.: 雕像依然耸立在那儿, 千秋万载地凝视着那变幻无常的大海.

4. The deposed dictator was burned in effigy by the crowd.: 群众焚烧退位独裁者的模拟像.

5. This effigy is decorated with old newspapers and firecrackers.: 通常,人们用旧报纸和爆竹装扮稻草人.

近反义词

burn someone in effigy 悬吊某人的模拟像以泄...

hang someone in effigy 悬吊某人的模拟像以泄...

相似短语

sculptured effigy 雕像

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