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image的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈimidʒ]
KK音标发音： [ˈɪmɪdʒ]

image的词性：
n.（名词）

1. A reproduction of the form of a person or an object, especially a sculptured likeness.
画像，塑像：人或物体的轮廓的复制，尤指雕塑出来的复制品

2. Physics An optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction of an object formed by a lens or mirror.
【物理学】 镜像，映像：物体由于光学原因形成的复制品、对应物或其它形式的代表物，尤指通过透镜或镜子而形成的视觉复制品

3. One that closely or exactly resembles another; a double:
翻版，酷似：极像或完全像另一物的人或物；相似者：

He is the image of his uncle.
他活象他叔叔的翻版

4. The opinion or concept of something that is held by the public.
形象，概念：大众认可的某事的意见或概念

5. The character projected to the public, as by a person or an institution, especially as interpreted by the mass media.
模范，典范：由某组织或某个人向大众推荐的人物，往往通过大众媒介作宣传

6. A personification of something specified:
象征，化身：特定事物的拟人化：

That child is the image of good health.
那个小孩就是健康的化身

7. A mental picture of something not real or present.
幻象：非真实或不现实的事情在脑海中的反映

8. A vivid description or representation.
描绘：生动的描绘或表述

9. A figure of speech, especially a metaphor or simile.
演说形式，尤指明喻或隐喻

10. A concrete representation, as in art, literature, or music, that is expressive or evocative of something else:
象征，意象：美术、文学或音乐中使用的代表或表述另一事物的具体形象：

night as an image of death.
黑夜是死亡的象征

11. Mathematics A set of values of a function corresponding to a particular subset of a domain.
【数学】 像，像点：函数中与某一集合中特定变量相对应的变量

12. Computer Science An exact copy of data in a file transferred to another medium.
【计算机科学】 图像，映像：进入另一媒介中的文件里，对原有数据的完全复制

13. Obsolete An apparition.
【废语】 幽灵

image的词性：
v.tr.（及物动词）

14. To make or produce a likeness of.
复制：制作或产生与…一样的事物

15. To mirror or reflect.
反映，反射

16. To symbolize or typify.
象征，代表

17. To picture (something) mentally; imagine.
设想，想象：在脑海中描绘（某物）；想象

18. To describe, especially so vividly as to evoke a mental picture of.
描绘：生动地描绘，在人们脑海中造成印像

19. Computer Science To translate (photographs or other pictures) by computer into numbers that can be transmitted to a remote location and then reconverted into pictures by another computer.
【计算机科学】 影象传输：用计算机（把照片或其它图画）转换成可以传替到远处的数字，再用另一台计算机把数字还原成图画

20. To visualize (something), as by magnetic resonance imaging.
制造视觉影象：通过例如磁共振成像这样的方法来显现（某物）

image的词源：

21. Middle English
中古英语

22. from Old French
源自 古法语

23. from Latin im3g?
源自 拉丁语 im3g?

image的词性：
adj.（形容词）