effigy

英 [ˈefɪdʒi]

美 [ˈefɪdʒi]

n.  (名人、圣人或神的)雕像，塑像; (丑化人的)模拟像，画像

复数：effigies　

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BNC.19281 / COCA.18533

牛津词典

noun

• （名人、圣人或神的）雕像，塑像
  a statue of a famous person, a saint or a god
  1. stone effigies in the church
     教堂里的石雕像
• （丑化人的）模拟像，画像
  a model of a person that makes them look ugly
  1. The demonstrators burned a crude effigy of the president.
     示威者焚毁了总统的丑化像。

柯林斯词典

• （丑化憎恶之人的）仿真像，模拟像
  Aneffigyis a quickly and roughly made figure, often ugly or amusing, that represents someone you hate or feel contempt for.
• （名人）雕像，塑像
  Aneffigyis a statue or carving of a famous person.

英英释义

noun

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

双语例句

• It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath.
  那不是一个拿破仑，而是王朝复辟时期的那种全新的、值二十金法郎的硬币，在这种新币的面上，原来的桂冠已被一条普鲁士的小尾巴所替代了。
• Burn a person in effigy.
  焚烧某人的肖像以泄恨。
• A very picturesque view of an old triumphal arch and the pine-tree-studded hill on the other side of the brook, was obtained from a hall in which stood a dust-covered effigy of an old school god.
  从其中的一个厅里可以看到别致的牌楼和小溪对面松林点缀的五老峰，在这个厅里供奉着文昌帝君像，像上沾满了灰尘。
• A coin with her effigy on it.
  带有她雕像的一枚硬币。
• Effigy Sculpture of Historical Ponder
  肖像雕塑的历史反思
• Few protesters are burning senators in effigy, as they were a century ago, and a voluntary armistice between the two parties seems an even more remote prospect than that.
  现在很少有反对者像几个世纪前那样点燃参议员的肖像以泄愤，同时两党间自愿的休战看起来暂时也是不大可能的。
• A wooden effigy of a Native American holding a cluster of cigars, formerly used as the emblem of a tobacconist.
  印第安人木雕像：土著美洲人的木制肖像，拿着一簇雪茄，以前作为烟草商的标志。
• I saw this dead, naked effigy of himself hanging from the ceiling.
  我看到一个他自己的、死去的裸体雕像挂在天花板上。
• Chicago bosses were hanged in effigy.
  芝加哥大亨们的仿真像被绞死了。
• Thus did mere businessmen enter the ranks of great leaders, warriors, philosophers and poets, achieving immortality in an effigy.
  的确，很少有商人能进入伟大的领袖、战士、哲人和诗人之列，并在塑像中成就不朽的声名。