caricatures

英 [ˈkærɪkətʃʊəz]

美 [ˈkærɪkətʃərz]

n.  人物漫画; 夸张的描述; 漫画艺术; 漫画手法
v.  把…画成漫画; 滑稽地描述
caricature的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 漫画;讽刺画;夸张性（或讽刺性）描述
  Acaricature ofsomeone is a drawing or description of them that exaggerates their appearance or behaviour in a humorous or critical way.
  1. The poster showed a caricature of Hitler with a devil's horns and tail...
     海报漫画中的希特勒长着魔鬼的犄角和尾巴。
  2. The Spanish Steps were crowded with the sellers of grotesque caricatures.
     西班牙阶梯上挤满了出售荒诞漫画的人。
• VERB 把…画成漫画;用讽刺性手法描述;夸大
  If youcaricaturesomeone, you draw or describe them in an exaggerated way in order to be humorous or critical.
  1. Her political career has been caricatured in headlines...
     她的政治生涯在头条新闻里遭到夸张嘲弄。
  2. He was caricatured as a turnip.
     在漫画里他被画成了一棵大头菜。
• N-COUNT 夸大;夸张
  If you describe something as acaricature ofan event or situation, you mean that it is a very exaggerated account of it.
  1. Hall is angry at what he sees as a caricature of the training offered to modern-day social workers.
     在霍尔看来,当代社会工作者所受的培训被大肆夸大,他感到很气愤。

双语例句

• The characters in his early novels are a lot subtler than the overblown caricatures in his more recent work.
  同近期的强烈讽刺作品相比，他早期小说中的人物要微妙得多。
• Like many caricatures, this is a bit unfair, since Mr Murdoch founded the satellite television businesses that James now runs, but it has enough truth to it.
  和许多讽刺漫画一样，这有点不公平，毕竟是默多克创立了如今由詹姆斯管理的卫星电视业务，不过倒也足够真实。
• One of his favourite caricatures is "the crumbling parliament" by Steve bell.
  他最喜欢的一幅漫画是史蒂夫贝尔的“崩溃的国会”（thecrumblingparliament）。
• They are far duller folk than their caricatures and the offences they are accused of crumble on closer examination.
  与被滑稽化的讽刺漫画形象以及毁灭近期检验结果所引发的攻击相比，他们不过是一些极其单调乏味的人。
• But though a model's response will, it is hoped, be similar to the real climate's, models are caricatures, not portraits.
  然而，尽管人们希望模型的表现会与真实的气候相似，模型却只是夸张模仿真实气候的“漫画”，而不是真实描摹的“肖像画”。
• I like cartoons, caricatures, and so forth.
  我喜欢看动画、漫画诸如此类的东西。
• His caricatures were primarily calls of fighting, with full strength of dagger-like irony;
  他的漫画首先是战斗的檄文，它充满了讽刺的匕首般的力量；
• Other features are added and then finally hand painted in the caricatures natural colors creating an amazing live looking appearance.
  其他特征，然后再加手画的漫画，终于创造了惊人的天然颜色看生活面貌。
• The Political Religions of the past century are being given up in favour of varieties often, sadly, fundamentalist caricatures of traditional faiths.
  人们放弃了过去一个世纪的政治宗教，转向各种传统信仰，但不幸的是，这些信仰常常是对基要主义的滑稽模仿。
• Cartoon caricatures, slapstick comedy, and clowning articles are all based on exaggeration, she notes.
  她说，有利身心的玩笑，卡通漫画，闹剧喜剧，诙谐文章都在运用夸张。