figure

音标发音

• 英式音标 ['fɪgəˈfiɡə]
• 美式音标 [ˈfɪɡ.jɚ]
• 国际音标 ['fiɡə]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.图形；数字；外形；体型；形状；人物；塑像；图表；（冰上表演动作的）花样
• v.是重要部分；认为；演算；领会到

词源解说

• 13世纪初期进入英语，直接源自古法语的figure，意为形状，形式，图形；最初源自原始印欧语的dheigh，意为形成，构成。

词根记忆

• “菲戈”(西班牙皇马著名球星)→人物
• “菲戈”(著名球星)→人物
• “菲戈”→菲戈是绿茵场上的著名人物(figure)→人物

同根派生

• adj性质的同根词

  figurative：比喻的；修饰丰富的；形容多的。

  figured：华丽的；有形状的；用图画表现的；有图案的。

  figural：借喻的；具有人的形象的；比喻的。

• n性质的同根词

  figuration：成形；外形；定形；比喻表达法；图案装饰法。

  figurant：（戏剧电影中的）群众演员；男配角演员。

• v性质的同根词

  figured：以图画或图表描绘；设想（figure的过去式和过去分词）。

• figure相关词

用法辨析

n. (名词)

• figure的基本意思是“数字”,指用于记录某些数字的特殊代号(通常是从0—9)。figure也可指“图表,图案”,还可指人或动物的“像,画像”,此时多用于绘画中。figure也可指一个人的整体体形,即“身材,体态”。figure还可指“算数”。figure引申可指“人物”“价格”。
• 表示“保持体形”时用动词keep,“改善体形”用improve。
• cut a figure在作“露出…相”解时, figure前常加形容词。

v. (动词)

• figure用作名词时,可表示“轮廓”,由此转化为动词,意为“出现”,常与介词in连用,强调“引人注目”“占据重要位置”。也可表示对某事的预测,即“估计,有可能”。在美国口语中, figure可表示“计算在内”,含有计算工作艰苦,负担很重的意味。这时常与介词in连用。
• figure可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时后接名词或代词作宾语。figure还可用作系动词,后接名词作表语。
• 在非正式英语中, figure可表示“认为”“料想”,这时多接that从句作宾语,也可接以“(to be/as+) n./adj. ”充当补足语的复合宾语。
• figure on是美国口语,意为“指望”“信赖”“打算干”,其后可接动词不定式,也可接动名词。
• 在美国口语中还可说figure up,意为“把…加起来”。
• figure out和figure up意思相近，在美国英语中解释为“计算”或“估计”。They have figured out(up) how much would be required.

• figure使用方法
• figure详细辨析

英汉例句

用作名词 (n.)

• The above figure did not include workers.
  上面的数字没有包括工人。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

• His name figured among the guests.
  宾客名单中有他的名字。

用作系动词: S+～+as n./pron.

• Roger figured as chief guest at the party.
  罗杰作为主要客人出现在聚会上。

用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

• Figure the total and I'll pay it with a check.
  请把总数算出来,我用支票支付。

S+～+(that-)clause

• We figured that he would arrive at around two o'clock.
  我们估计他将在两点钟左右到达。

用作宾补动词: S+～+ n./pron. +(to be/as) n./adj.

• I figured him an honest man.
  我认为他是诚实的人。

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词组短语

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• add up figure 加数字
• ask figure 要价
• check figure 核对数字
• name figure 说出价格
• publish figure 公布数字

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• (NUMBER) the symbol for a number or an amount expressed in numbers
• (SHAPE) the shape of the human body, or a person
• (PICTURE) a picture or drawing, often with a number, in a book or other document
• (EXPECT) to expect or think that something will happen
• (APPEAR) to be, appear, take part, or be included in something
• (NUMBER) to calculate an amount

柯林斯英英字典

• A figure is a particular amount expressed as a number, especially a statistic.
• A figure is any of the ten written symbols from 0 to 9 that are used to represent a number.
• You refer to someone that you can see as a figure when you cannot see them clearly or when you are describing them.
• In art, a figure is a person in a drawing or a painting, or a statue of a person.
• Your figure is the shape of your body.
• Someone who is referred to as a figure of a particular kind is a person who is well-known and important in some way.
• If you say that someone is, for example, a mother figure or a hero figure, you mean that other people regard them as the type of person stated or suggested.
• In books and magazines, the diagrams which help to show or explain information are referred to as figures.
• In geometry, a figure is a shape, especially a regular shape.
• An amount or number that is in single figures is between zero and nine. An amount or number that is in double figures is between ten and ninety-nine. You can also say, for example, that an amount or number is in three figures when it is between one hundred and nine hundred and ninety-nine.
• If you figure that something is the case, you think or guess that it is the case.
• If you say "That figures" or "It figures," you mean that the fact referred to is not surprising.
• If a person or thing figures in something, they appear in or are included in it.

• figure剑桥字典
• figure柯林斯字典

专业释义

艺术学

• 人物

  Satie, a French composer, is a controversial figure in the history of music.
  在音乐发展的历史上，法国作曲家萨蒂是一个颇具争议的人物。

• 图形

  The fourth, emphases on. an application for figure, symbol on TV stage art designing.
  第四章，重点研究图形、符号在电视舞台美术设计中的应用。

• 形体
• 音型

计算机科学技术

• 数字

  Character Recognition is mainly based on template matching. Some letter character and figure character may be confused by template matching.
  字符识别采用以模板匹配为主,神经网络区分易混淆的字母数字为辅的方法,取得了很好的效果,准确率超过96%。

• 位数
• 数
• 图

语言学

• 图形

  In language use,the relationship between evaluative concepts and other concepts can be viewed as figure and ground.
  言语中,评价概念与其他概念的关系可被解释为图形与背景的关系。

• 数字

  Mr. Wang Xijie's "the figure rhetoric" in is a brand-new concept that summed up from the figures participating in social language and put forward from the angle of rhetoric.
  王希杰先生在《修辞学通论》中所涉及的“数变格”,是从修辞的角度来对数字参与语言交际的过程进行归纳综述而提出的一个全新的修辞概念。

• 字形

  Using the way of statistic analysis, we discuss the function that word figure plays on Chinese cognate words, and expound how to use it in study from two facets.
  以字形为视角，分两节探讨了字形在同源词研究中的作用。

  机械工程

• 起花

  The thesis includes foundational study of construction and figure possibility of warp-knitted fabric and the farther research of pattern designing. It, in some respects, gives some meaningful guidance of the produce exploitation.
  本课题主要研究了经编内衣面料的组织结构和起花可能性,并进一步探讨了经编内衣面料的设计方法,对经编内衣面料的产品开发具有一定的指导意义。

• 图
• 数字
• 位数

土木建筑工程

• 体量
• （木材表面的）花纹

历史学

• 人物

  Huang Zhen was one of the representative figure of Song Confucianists .
  黄震是南宋末年“程朱理学”代表人物之一。

  体育

• 形态

  This article discusses the effects of badminton on body figure and health related physical fitness, in order to giving a scientific guidance to students participate in badminton exercises.
  本文探讨羽毛球运动对大学生身体形态及健康体适能的影响,旨在为大学生参加羽毛球锻炼予以科学指导。

• 舞步型；一回旋；(画在冰上的)图形

管理学

• 身份

  在实践过程中,该实习生的言和行都指出其指导老师对其身份认同形成的影响。

  数学

• 数码

生物学

• 花纹;插图
• 图;数字