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a humorous drawing in a newspaper or magazine, especially one about politics or events in the news （报刊中尤与政治或时事有关的）漫画，讽刺画 a political/satirical cartoon 政治/讽刺漫画 The funniest contributions to the magazine are the cartoons. 对杂志最有趣的贡献是漫画。 He started drawing cartoons when he was still at school. 他还在学校的时候就开始画漫画了。
Express Yourself Describing a pictureTopics TV, radio and newsa2Describing a picture 描述图片 In some exams, you have to describe what you see in a picture or photograph. Here are some useful phrases: 有些考试会要求描述图片或照片内容。下面是一些有用的短语： The picture shows a family gathered around a kitchen table. 照片中一家人围坐在餐桌旁。
This is a picture/photo of a busy city street. 这张图／照片里是一条繁华的城市街道。
In the foreground/background, we can see a group of protesters. 在前景／背景中，我们可以看到一群示威者。
In the bottom right-hand corner/top left-hand corner, there's a child sitting alone. 在右下角／左上角，有一个孩子孤零零地坐在那里。
On the left/On the right/In the middle, someone is standing with a bottle in his hand. 在左边／右边／中间，站着一个手里拿着瓶子的人。
In the cartoon, we can see two people looking at a newspaper headline. 在漫画中，我们可以看到两个人在看报纸的大字标题。
The cartoonist has drawn the man to represent a typical businessman. 漫画家把这个男人画成一个典型的商人。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- animated
- strip
- editorial
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- draw
- watch
- character
- strip
- series
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- (also comic strip, British English strip cartoon)
a series of drawings inside boxes that tell a story and are often printed in newspapers （常登载于报纸上的）连环漫画 a ‘Peanuts’ cartoon with Charlie Brown 查理·布朗的《花生》漫画
Culture comics and comic stripscomics and comic stripsA comic in the US means a comic strip or strip cartoon. Comic strips are a series of small drawings, called frames, with words that tell a story. Most US newspapers contain comic strips that are read by both adults and children. On Mondays to Saturdays they are usually four frames long, printed in black and white. On Sundays they are longer and in colour. Comic strips are also popular in British newspapers. Many can be found on the internet.Most comic strips make jokes about the characters in them and the things that happen to them. For instance, in the Peanuts comic strips (1950-2000) many of the jokes are about Charlie Brown, who has very bad luck, and his friend Lucy, who is not kind to him. In Calvin and Hobbes (1985-1995) , the humour comes from the relationship between a boy and his imaginary friend, a toy tiger. Comic strips in British newspapers include Andy Capp and The Perishers. In the US, Dilbert is about life in the office while Doonesburycomments on political situations through its characters. Most newspapers also print single frames that comment in a humorous way on politicians and other people in the news. These are known as cartoons.In Britain a comic is a picture magazine, usually for children. Comics contain short stories written as comic strips, and sometimes also competitions and articles. Popular children's comics include Beano, Dandy, and 2000 AD, which features mainly science fiction stories. Comics for very young children are often based on popular television programmes, such as Thomas and Friends (which features Thomas the Tank Engine). Adult comics, such as Viz, are usually very rude.Some of the characters in Beano and Dandy have not changed much over the years and now look old-fashioned. Teachers, for instance, still wear mortar boards (= stiff black hats with a square top), though real teachers stopped wearing them long ago. Many of the most popular comics appear in the form of books, called annuals, around Christmas each year.Comic books are similar to comics. Each book has a set of characters who have adventures. Many of the characters, such as Spider-Man, Superman and Wonder Woman, have powers that ordinary people do not have. Graphic novels are longer stories told in the form of comic strips. Pictures of the most famous characters from comic strips and comic books are used on a range of products, for example they are printed on bed covers, T-shirts, lunch boxes and birthday cards.Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- animated
- strip
- editorial
- …
- draw
- watch
- character
- strip
- series
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a film or TV show made by photographing a series of gradually changing drawings or models, so that they look as if they are moving 动画片；卡通片 a Walt Disney cartoon 迪士尼动画片 a cartoon character 动画片人物
Extra ExamplesTopics Film and theatrea2, TV, radio and newsa2a full-length Disney cartoon 一部迪斯尼动画片的完整版 The kids spend their Saturdays watching cartoons. 孩子们看卡通片度过周六。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- animated
- strip
- editorial
- …
- draw
- watch
- character
- strip
- series
- …
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a drawing made by an artist as a preparation for a painting 草图；底图
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in sense (4)): from Italian cartone, from carta, from Latin carta, charta, from Greek khartēs ‘papyrus leaf’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 19th cent.