【figure音标】 英[ˈfɪgə(r)] 美[ˈfɪgjər]
【单词释义】 figure是什么意思：
n.数字；外形，图形；算术；人物；身材
vi.计算；出现；认为；扮演角色
vt.计算在内；估计；推测；
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[单词复数] figures [第三人称单数] figures
[单词现在分词] figureing
[单词过去式] figured
[单词过去分词] figured
【figure形近词/近似词】
transfigure vt.（使）改观；美化
prefigure vt.预示；预兆；预想
disfigure vt.损毁…的外形；使变丑；毁容
【单词例句】
◇ When her figure faded away, the brilliant professor said, “You are mistaken and your improper remark on her should be condemned.
等她的身影渐渐远去，那位才华横溢的教授说：“你错了，你对她不适当的评论语应该受到谴责。
◇ Because he desired to get their holy affection back, he set other affairs aside. He trimmed his fingernails short and changed his overweight figure as well as his awful haircut.
因为渴望重新获得这份神圣的爱，他把别的事务都放在一边。他剪短了指甲，改变了超重的身材和糟糕的发型。
---- Happy Marriage Needs Fighting For
◇ Abstract art used to be controversial. On one hand, the artists stopped painting delicate figures but attempted to adopt special techniques to give people different visual impacts. On the other hand, their works, including sculptures carved out of marble or fragile clay, were all with a specific aim of showing feelings.
抽象艺术曾经颇受争议，一方面，抽象艺术家们不再画精致的画像，而是试图采用特别的技巧给人们以不同的视觉冲击；另一方面，他们的作品，包括用大理石和易碎的粘土雕刻出来的雕像，都以表达感情为其明确的目的。
---- Abstract Art
◇ They made wooden tools, wooden cartoon figures, wooden athletic products and so on. They even built a huge wooden engine with a length of 20 metres, which was modeled after a real one.
他们制作的有木制工具、木制的卡通人物、木制的运动用的产品，等等。他们甚至还根据一台真实发动机仿造了一台长度有20米的木制发动机。
---- A Unique Theme Park
◇ Everybody looked at her feet; and when she stepped through the chancel door on the church pavement, it seemed to her as if the old figures on the tombs, those portraits of old preachers and preachers' wives, with stiff ruffs, and long black dresses, fixed their eyes on her red shoes.
所有的人都在望着她的那双脚。当她在教堂里走向那个圣诗歌唱班门口的时候，她就觉得好像那些墓石上的雕像，那些戴着硬领和穿着黑长袍的牧师，以及他们的太太的画像都在盯着她的一双红鞋。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ China and India have the highest numbers of smokers worldwide, accounting for 307 million and 106 million, respectively, of the world's 1.1 billion adult smokers, followed by Indonesia with 74 million, WHO figures show. India also has 200 million of the world's 367 million smokeless tobacco users.
世卫组织的数据显示，全球共有11亿成年吸烟者。中国和印度的吸烟人数全球最高，分别是3.07亿人和1.06亿人。排在之后的是印度尼西亚，吸烟者有7400万人。全球共有3.67亿无烟烟草制品使用者，其中印度占了2亿。
---- Tobacco use still a major cause of death
◇ The revised figures reflect the downward trend in the global fertility rate, which means the populations of more countries are shrinking.
修正后的数据反映出全球生育率下降的趋势，这意味着更多国家的人口正在减少。
---- World's population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100
◇ Try to figure out what the company's main goals are and then align your skills with what will be most valued by the team.
试着想想公司的主要目标是什么，并将你的技能和团队最看重的品质结合起来。
---- Five most common questions asked at a job interview
◇ "If you love me not, never mind Later you shall, when a fine figure I cut!"
“你现在不喜欢我，当你看到我美丽时，一定会喜欢我！”