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

• 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。
• The king was burned in effigy by the angry mob.
  国王的模拟像被愤怒的民众烧掉以泄心中的愤恨。
• 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。
• ( British) an effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day.
  （英国）盖伊·福克斯日在营火里焚烧的盖伊·福克斯的塑像。
• The fire roared and crackled, and a great cheer went up as the flames began to lick the effigy of the Pope.
  火焰熊熊，噼啪作响，当火舌开始吞没教皇的模拟像时，人群中爆发出一阵响亮的欢呼声。
• There the effigy stands, and stares from age to age across the changing ocean.
  雕像依然耸立在那儿，千秋万载地凝视着那变幻无常的大海。
• Seldom does a day go by when I'm not burned in effigy.
  每天都有人烧我的刍像。
• 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。
• Burn a person in effigy.
  焚烧某人的肖像以泄恨。