effigy

GRE畅通词汇

英 ['efɪdʒɪ] 美['ɛfɪdʒi]

释义

n. 雕像，肖像

词态变化

复数: effigies;

中文词源

effigy 雕像

ef-, 向外。-fig, 形成，形象，词源同figure, fiction. 引申义雕像，小雕像。

英文词源

effigy: effigy: [16] Effigy comes ultimately from the Latin verb effingere ‘form, portray’. This was a compound formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and fingere ‘make, shape’ (source of English faint, feign, fiction, figment, and related to English dairy and dough). It formed the basis of the noun effigiēs ‘representation, likeness, portrait’, which was borrowed into English in the 16th century as effigies: ‘If that you were the good Sir Rowland’s son, as you have whisper’d faithfully you were, and as mine eye doth his effigies witness most truly limn’d and living in your face, be truly welcome hither’, Shakespeare, As you like it 1600.

By the 18th century, however, this had come to be regarded as a plural form, and so a new singular, effigy, was created.
=> dairy, dough, faint, fiction, figment
effigy (n.): "image of a person," 1530s, from Middle French effigie (13c.), from Latin effigies "copy or imitation of something, likeness, image, statue," from or related to effingere "to mold, fashion, portray," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + fingere "to form, shape" (see fiction). The Latin word was regarded as plural and the -s was lopped off by 18c. Especially figures made of stuffed clothing; the burning or hanging of them is attested by 1670s. Formerly done by judicial authorities as symbolic punishment of criminals who had escaped their jurisdiction; later a popular expression against persons deemed obnoxious. Related: Effigial.

双语例句

1. The king was burned in effigy by the angry mob.: 国王的模拟像被愤怒的民众烧掉以泄心中的愤恨.

2. Burn a person in effigy.: 焚烧某人的肖像以泄恨.

3. There the effigy stands, and stares from age to age across the changing ocean.: 雕像依然耸立在那儿, 千秋万载地凝视着那变幻无常的大海.

4. The deposed dictator was burned in effigy by the crowd.: 群众焚烧退位独裁者的模拟像.

5. This effigy is decorated with old newspapers and firecrackers.: 通常,人们用旧报纸和爆竹装扮稻草人.

英英释意

1. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture);: "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"

实用场景例句

stone effigies in the church: 教堂里的石雕像

The demonstrators burned a crude effigy of the president.: 示威者焚毁了总统的丑化像。

They burn him in effigy to away the gloom and bring in a new , better year.: 他们焚烧忧郁老人来驱赶忧郁及带来更好的来年.

During the war, the president was sometimes burned in effigy in some cities.: 在战争期间, 一些城市有时焚烧总统的模拟像.

The deposed dictator was burned in effigy by the crowd.: 群众焚烧退位独裁者的模拟像.

This effigy is decorated with old newspapers and firecrackers.: 通常,人们用旧报纸和爆竹装扮稻草人.

To get rid of these bad things, every family lights an effigy on fire at midnight.: 为了彻底告别这些不好的东西, 每个家庭都会在午夜时分点火烧掉稻草人.

Burn a person in effigy.: 焚烧某人的肖像以泄恨.

British an effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day.: 盖伊·福克斯日在营火里焚烧的盖伊·福克斯的塑像.

There the effigy stands, and stares from age to age across the changing ocean.: 雕像依然耸立在那儿, 千秋万载地凝视着那变幻无常的大海.

The top of the pile was flattened ready for an effigy of Guy Fawkes.: 垃圾堆的顶部被平整,用以摆放盖伊·福克斯的模拟像.

The king was burned in effigy by the angry mob.: 国王的模拟像被愤怒的民众烧掉以泄心中的愤恨.

During World War, Hitler was sometimes burnt in effigy in the United States.: 第二次世界大战时美国人民有时焚烧希特勒的肖像以泄恨.

The coin bears an effigy of lincoln.: 那枚硬币镌有林肯的肖像.

词组搭配

in effigy

Symbolically, especially in the form of an effigy

模拟像：象征性的，特别是以模拟像的形式

The deposed dictator was burned in effigy by the crowd.
群众焚烧退位独裁者的模拟像