image
noun uk/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/ us/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/
(MENTAL PICTURE)
C2 [ C ]（自己头脑中的）形象，印象
a picture in your mind or an idea of how someone or something is
I have an image in my mind of how I want the garden to be. 我对花园该是什么样心里有底。
He doesn't fit (= he is different to) my image of how an actor should look. 他和我心里想的演员的模样并不相符。
B2 [ C or U ]（他人心中的）形象，印象；声誉
the way that something or someone is thought of by other people
The aim is to improve the public image of the police. 目的在于改善警察的公众形象。
The company has made strenuous attempts to improve its image in recent years. 公司近年来作出了巨大的努力以改善自身形象。
He's terribly image-conscious (= tries to dress and behave in a way that other people will admire). 他非常在意自己的形象。
[ C ] literature specialized比喻，意象
a mental picture or idea that forms in a reader's or listener's mind from the words that they read or hear
The poem is full of images of birth and new life. 诗中充满了新生和新生活的意象。
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- I can't get that dreadful image out of my mind.
- Recently the president has sought to project a much tougher image.
- For some people, the word 'England' may still conjure up images of pretty gardens and tea parties.
- The city is trying to shrug off its industrial image and promote itself as a tourist centre.
- Water, a symbol of life, recurs as an image throughout her poems.
(PICTURE)
B2 [ C ]（尤指镜子或透镜形成的）镜像;影像;映像
any picture, especially one formed by a mirror or a lens
television images of starving children 挨饿儿童的电视画面
The image you see in the mirror. 你在镜子中看到的映像
Synonyms: illustration (PICTURE)picture (IMAGE)
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- Television confronts the viewer with a succession of glittering and seductive images.
- Their pilots are guided by an infrared optical system that shows images clearly even at night.
- You can use the device to scan the image and reproduce it on-screen in an electronic format.
- One of the film's many unsettling images is of a child playing with her father's gun.
- Can you improve the sharpness of the image at all?
Idiom
be the (living/spitting) image of someoneidiom 长相酷似（某人）
to look very similar to someone
She's the spitting image of her mother. 她长相酷似她的母亲。