caricature
UK ['kær.ɪ.kə.tʃʊər] US ['ker.ɪ.kə.tʃʊr] noun countable or uncountable
■(the art of making) a drawing or written or spoken description of someone, which makes part of their appearance or character more noticeable than it really is, and which usually makes them look silly 漫画（艺术）；讽刺画；讽刺描述：•The characters in his early novels are a lot subtler than the overblown caricatures in his more recent work.和他近期作品中夸张的讽刺描述相比，他早期小说中的人物要含蓄得多。 •figurative Over the years he's become a grotesque caricature of himself.经过这么些年，他已经变得性情乖张，举止荒谬。
UK ['kær.ɪ.kə.tʃʊər] US ['ker.ɪ.kə.tʃʊr] verb transitive
■to create a caricature 画漫画•Charles Dickens caricatured lawyers (= represented them in a way which made them look silly) in several of his novels.查尔斯‧狄更斯在几本小说里对律师进行了讽刺性描述。 |