easel 核心词议:
n. 画架,黑板架
easel 基本解释
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词源词根法
画家绘画时把画板或蒙画布的框子斜放在画架上面,但意指“画架”的easel并不是因为画架使画家的工作舒适些(ease the work of the painter)而得名的。在17懂纪荷兰画家看来,画架好比一头役畜(beast of burden),所以他们就用荷兰语中表示“驴”的ezel一词称之。该词于17世纪进入英语,以后其拼法受ease(舒适)的影响逐渐演变为easel。16世纪是荷兰艺术的繁荣时期,和easel一同在17世纪从荷兰语进人英语的美术用语有landscape(风景厕)和lay figure(人体模型)等。用役畜来喻指画架也见于其它一些语言,如法语、意大利语和西班牙语都用原义为“小马”的词来指画架,它们分别是chevalet,cavaletto,cabellete。其实,英语在习惯上也常用役畜及其它动物名称来喻指用具,诸如clotheshorse(晾衣架),sawhorse(锯木架),crane(起重机),monkey wrench(活扳手),donkey engine(辅助发动机)。easel的词义还可引申为“黑板架”和“图表架”。
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easel 变化形式
复数: easels
易混淆的单词: Easel
中文词源:
easel 画架
来自拉丁词asinus, 驴,见ass. 拼写受ease影响。在英语常见于用动物来代替某些具体物件名,比较sawhorse, 锯木架。
easel
精选例句
1、 A photograph of my mother sits on an easel next to the urn.
在骨灰盒边上有一个画架,上面放着我母亲的大照片。
常见考点例句:
- His studio was a smallish upstairs bedroom ; it didn 't even have an easel .
- 他把画室安排在楼上一间不大的卧房,其间甚至连一个画架都不曾摆放。
- Just stepping away from the easel was enough to get me to relax , and what I saw before me was genius .
- 只是稍稍远离画架,就足以让我放松,而呈现在我眼前的,则是一幅天才之作。
- Call mozart or picasso prodigies if you like but they spent more hours at the piano and the easel than their competitors did .
- 如果你愿意,你可以将莫扎特或毕加索称为天才,但他们在钢琴前和画架前花费的时间,一定比他们的竞争者更多。
- Neither have I caught them knitting or daubing oil paints on to an easel , though that may be partly because hardly anyone does such things at home either .
- 我也从未发现谁在打毛衣,或在画架上涂抹油彩,尽管这有可能是因为大家在家里也不会做这些事情。
- Lots of houses here are abandoned and one of them became andrey 's sculpture studio . There he has an easel , floodlight , clay .
- 因此这里许多房屋都闲置着,其中一间就成为了安德鲁的雕刻工作室,里面有一个画架,一盏泛光灯和一些黏土。