silhouette是什么意思_silhouette怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

silhouette: silhouette: [18] The term silhouette commemorates the name of the French author and politician Étienne de Silhouette (1709–67). As finance minister in the late 1750s he gained a reputation for cheeseparing, and silhouette came to be used for anything skimped. One account of the application of the word to a ‘simple cut-out picture’ is that it carries on this notion of ‘simplicity’ or ‘lack of finish’, but an alternative theory is that Silhouette himself was in the habit of making such pictures. The metaphorical use of the term for a ‘dark image against a bright background’ emerged in the mid-19th century.
silhouette (n.): 1798, from French silhouette, in reference to Étienne de Silhouette (1709-1767), French minister of finance in 1759. Usually said to be so called because it was an inexpensive way of making a likeness of someone, a derisive reference to Silhouette"s petty economies to finance the Seven Years" War, which were unpopular among the nobility. But other theories are that it refers to his brief tenure in office, or the story that he decorated his chateau with such portraits.
Silhouette portraits were so called simply because they came into fashion in the year (1759) in which M. de Silhouette was minister. [A. Brachet, "An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language," transl. G.W. Kitchin, 1882]
Used of any sort of dark outline or shadow in profile from 1843. The verb is recorded from 1876, from the noun. The family name is a Frenchified form of a Basque surname; Arnaud de Silhouette, the finance minister"s father, was from Biarritz in the French Basque country; the southern Basque form of the name would be Zuloeta or Zulueta, which contains the suffix -eta "abundance of" and zulo "hole" (possibly here meaning "cave").

词态变化

复数 silhouettes;
第三人称单数 silhouettes;
过去式 silhouetted;
过去分词 silhouetted;
现在分词 silhouetting;

权威造句

1. Even from behind in silhouette, Billy recognized the figure.: 即便看到的只是背影的轮廓，比利还是认出了那个人影。

2. the silhouette of chimneys and towers: 烟囱和塔楼的轮廓

3. I could see its black silhouette against the evening sky.: 我能看到夜幕下它黑色的轮廓.

4. He drew the city in silhouette.: 他勾勒出这个城市的轮廓.

5. The shirt"s ideal worn loose over leggings or tuck it in for a streamlined silhouette.: 这件衬衫最好是松松垮垮地穿在紧身裤外面，或者是塞进裤子里以显出苗条的身材。

近反义词

in silhouette 成黑色轮廓像(成剪影...

model silhouette 模型轮廓

reversed silhouette 反射的轮廓

silhouette picture 廓影

silhouette effect 廓影效应

aiming silhouette 人形靶

silhouette target 人像靶

house silhouette 房屋轮廓

low silhouette 低姿态

相似短语

in silhouette adv.成剪影,呈现轮廓

silhouette animation 剪纸动画

silhouette photography 剪影照片

silhouette picture 剪影，廓影

silhouette target 人像靶

silhouette effect 侧影效果

silhouette trget 影像目标

reversed silhouette 反射的轮廓

单词分析

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记忆方法

1. 日语中，人影又叫“西卢埃特”。这源于１８世纪法国一位叫西卢埃特（Silhouette）的财务大臣。此君在财政困难时代，厉行节俭政策，尚朴素反对豪华，连自己的肖像画也只许用黑白素描。为此他的名声留传后世。
2. 法国政治改革家艾蒂安·德·西卢埃特（Étienne de Silhouette）：http://fr.tingroom.com/quwei/yqfy/8466.html

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