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TOEFL BNC: 13963 COCA: 10757

caricature

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Related topics: Visual, Literature
car·i·ca·ture1 /ˈkærɪkətʃʊə $ -tʃʊr/ noun
1  [countableC]AVPICTURE a funny drawing of someone that makes them look silly 人物漫畫
caricature of
caricatures of politicians
政治人物的漫畫像
2  [countableC]AL a description of someone or something that is only partly true and makes them seem silly 諷刺性描寫，誇張性描述
caricature of
The report presents a caricature of the true situation.
這則報道對真實的情況進行了誇張的描述。
3. [uncountableU]AV the activity of drawing or writing caricatures 漫畫手法；諷刺描述法
Examples from the Corpus
caricature• The young man looked like a caricature of a South American polo player.• Unfortunately, popular folklore eventually romanticized the leader and his tribe, reducing them almost to comic book caricatures.• Unfortunately, now four years later our original leader has become a cartoon caricature.• Klein began his career by drawing caricatures of local politicians in the paper.• Their personalities are easily exaggerated, their foibles ripe for caricature or psychotherapy.• Politicians are used to having caricatures of themselves printed in newspapers.• It's a sort of caricature of a machine.• We had our caricatures drawn by a street artist while we were on vacation in Turkey.• Now she added quick caricatures and portraits to her entertainments at Hunnewell parties.• The caricature is crude, but recognisable.• Yet all these caricatures are historically misplaced.• But whereas caricature depends on paring down character to exaggerated essentials, acting conveys shades, nuances and inconsistencies.
Related topics: Visual
caricature2 verb [transitiveT]
AVDESCRIBEto draw or describe someone or something in a way that makes them seem silly 把…畫成漫畫，用漫畫表現[諷刺]；使滑稽化
caricature somebody/something as something
Scientists are often caricatured as absent-minded professors.
科學家常常被滑稽地描寫成粗心大意的教授。
Examples from the Corpus
caricature• Many celebrity customers have been caricatured and hung on the restaurant's walls.• As such its history can be caricatured as having had three stages.• And we allowed ourselves to be caricatured by our opponents.• Economic gurus tend to think of themselves as hard scientists, while caricaturing educators as limp, at best.• It is less understandable when the union is caricatured in more seriously researched publications.• And even if there is a deal, Mr Clinton will try to caricature Republican reforms as monsters from the deep.
Origin caricature1
(1700-1800) French Italian caricatura, from caricare “to load, make seem larger, worse, etc.”, from Late Latin carricare; → CHARGE2
car·i·ca·ture1 nouncaricature2 verb
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TOEFL BNC: 13963 COCA: 10757
caricature

noun¹

 1funny drawing of sb漫畫像VERB + CARICATURE | PREPOSITION VERB + CARICATURE➤draw畫漫畫像◇She draws caricatures of well-known politicians.她畫政治名人的漫畫像。PREPOSITION➤caricature of⋯的漫畫像◇a caricature of Sherlock Holmes歇洛克・福爾摩斯的漫畫像
caricature

noun²

 2exaggerated description of sb/sth誇張的描述ADJECTIVE | VERB + CARICATURE | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVE➤crude, grotesque粗俗的／怪誕的誇張描述➤mere純粹的誇張描述◇Most of his characters were mere caricatures.他刻畫的人物大多極為誇張。VERB + CARICATURE➤be, become誇張表現／成為誇張的描述➤create創作誇張人物PREPOSITION➤caricature of⋯的誇張描述◇The two stars have become crude caricatures of themselves.這兩位明星已扭曲了自己的形象。
TOEFL BNC: 13963 COCA: 10757
caricature noun
⇨ parody
TOEFL BNC: 13963 COCA: 10757
caricature
Specific types of picture or work of art: abstract, aquatint, bas-relief...
Descriptions and stories: description, story, picture...
A typical or good example of something: example, instance, case...
To create images on paper and canvas: draw, paint, sketch...

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