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

• Stereotypes and caricatures exist about occupations or professions.
  对于职业，存在着模式化和漫画似的认识。
• Our ideas may even be caricatures with features and peculiarities exaggerated for comic or grotesque effect.
  我们的想法甚至可能是漫画式的，某些特点和个性被夸大了以取得戏剧性的夸张效果。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In baths and gay bars, some gays dressed up as caricatures of the most macho of men.
  在澡堂或者gaybar，一些男人穿着非常夸张凸显极致的男性魅力。
• The drawings may be animal figures, caricatures of fellow workmen, or off-color pictures.
  其中所描绘的，大多是动物的形象、工友的漫画，或粗俗下流的图片等。
• Serious and understandable concerns lie behind the caricatures that dominate this debate.
  在这场辩论的漫画式夸张背后，是各种严肃且可以理解的关切。
• Thankfully James Gillray is also there, and his ★ biting [ 29] caricatures lift the spirits.
  令人欣慰的是，这里面也包括了詹姆斯•基尔雷，他的讽刺画发人深省，令人精神振奋。
• A complaint that the schoolmaster and his wife were caricatures.
  关于校长与他妻子像是可笑漫画人物的抱怨之词。