英语释义

1. an outline especially of a curving or irregular figure shape
the sleek contours of the car The map shows the contour of the coastline. also the line representing this outline

2. the general form or structure of something characteristic —often used in plural
the contours of a melody… the contours of political and social theories.
— James G. Paradis

3. a usually meaningful change in intonation in speech

4. following contour lines or forming furrows or ridges along them
contour flooding contour farming

5. made to fit the contour of something
a contour couch contour sheets

6. to shape the contour of

7. to shape so as to fit contours

8. to construct (something, such as a road) in conformity to a contour

9. the outline or outer edge of something

10. the outline of a figure, body, or surface
the contour of the coastline

11. an outline especially of a curving or irregular figure also the line representing this outline

12. to shape the contour of
contour a gingiva in gingivoplasty

片语

likelihood contours[数]

root contours根轨迹族

illusory contours错觉轮廓

isopulse contours等脉沖线

noise contours噪声等值线

isopressure contours等压线

contour line[数] 轮廓线；[测] 等高线

depth contour[测][海洋] 等深线；等海深线；等水深线

Sketch Contours草图轮廓

contour map[测] 等高线图；[数][地物] 等值线图

topographic contours地形等高线

英汉例句

• The world’s new contours began to emerge with the end of the Cold War.

  冷战结束后新的世界轮廓开始显现。

• That is done the way human puzzlers do it, by paying attention to shapes and sizes of the pieces, and the contours of their edges.

  这已经由解题人通过注意碎片的形状和大小和边缘的轮廓做完了。

• A greater variety of contours is a wonderful thing, because shape is an incredibly powerful design tool.

  有丰富多样的轮廓线确实不错，因为形状是一项极为强大的设计工具。

• Turning to face me, he slowly extended a hand which, like a soft animal, explored the contours of my face.

  他向我转过脸来缓缓地伸出一只手，这手像是一种软体动物，探摸着我的脸部轮廓。

• It was dusk: the contrasts of the colors were fading into a vibrant chiaroscuro; the lunar fields and woods were now just barely visible contours on the taut surface of the shining globe.

  黄昏已经来临，颜色的对比逐渐退化为黑白两色。月亮上的田野和森林现在只是这个闪亮的星球的光滑的表面上隐约可见的轮廓。

• She ventured into the third dimension to produce graphs that map the contours of plants.

  她大胆进入第三维空间，绘制出曲面表示植物的轮廓。

• For the simple pleasure of rolling slowly through a beautiful country, feeling its contours and enjoying its changes - of colour, stone, cheese and wine.

  就是为了用轮子滚过这个美丽国家这样一种简单的快乐，为了感受她的轮廓线，分享她的种种变化——色彩，山巖，奶酪和美酒。

• All of this depends on certain assumptions and the meteorology, the geology and the hydrology of the area plus the contours of the land around this particular power plant.

  所有的这些都是根据某些假设，和气象状态，地质情况，还有，水文请跨国，在加上土地的等高线，在这个特定的核能电站的周围。

• That「s why the contours are evenly spaced.

  那就是为什么等高线图是均匀间隔线的排列的。

• You can also apply contours to plots (as shown in Figure 1, below).

  也可以在图形中绘制等高线（如下面的图1 所示）。

• The key here is 」short, controlled bursts「 and to follow the natural lines and curves of your subject. Go with the contours of the skin, the curls of the hair, the patterns of the clothing and so on.

  每次的下笔不宜过长，笔触走势要跟随物体本身的自然线条，皮肤的轮廓，头发的卷曲和衣服的图案等等。

• As I gazed about with sharpened appreciation, I saw colors and lines and contours that would have appeared differently under brilliant light.

  我满怀感激地凝望着眼前的景色，此刻所见的色彩、线条和轮廓比起阳光下别有一番风味。

• Hadhe monitored his air supply better, he could have made a slow, safeascent to the surface by following the bottom contours and swam rightup to the beach.

  如果他更好的掌握好用气量，他就可以缓慢的、更安全的沿着水底的轮廓上升出水，并直接游回岸边。

• You are auditioning for a role you don」t even know the contours of - it is like stepping out on to a blackened stage and being handed a script you can「t read.

  你就是在为扮演一个角色作「试镜」，可你连角色的大致轮廓都不清楚——这就像是走到了一个黑了灯的舞台上，手持脚本，你却没法读。

• This is a period in which the old world is slowly but irreversibly changing and the contours of a new one are just beginning to take shape.

  我们所处的时期，旧世界正在缓慢但不可逆转地改变，新世界的轮廓才刚刚开始形成。

• 「My uncle told me our dreaming tracks flow from the hills above it,」 dreaming tracks—also called songlines—being an aborigine’s spiritual connection to the contours of the actual land.

  梦想首曲目也被称为歌之路——作为一个原住民以实际土地轮廓的精神联系。

• Here」s a short gnuplot example that illustrates 3-d function plotting with contours and hidden line removal.

  下面是一个简单的gnuplot例子，它给出了一个具有等高线和隐线消除的3 - D图形。

• Indeed, Dr Atala is working on one that would scan the contours of the part of a body where a skin graft was needed and then print skin onto it.

  的确，Atala博士正在研究能够扫描出人体需要植皮部分的轮廓，然后直接将皮肤打印在上边的机器。

• It's harder to make out the contours of the philosophy at the core of this dazzling blur of action.

  通过一连串耀眼但模糊的动作很难分辨出其理念的轮廓。

• Neuroscientist Rudiger von der Heydt, of Johns Hopkins University, has shown that illusory contours are processed in neurons within visual brain area called V2.

  约翰斯—霍普金大学的神经学家已经证实了这种「错觉轮廓」是由一个叫做V2的视觉脑区里的神经元处理形成的。

相似词

figure计算；认为；描绘；象征

outline概述；略述；描画…轮廓

silhouette(Silhouette)人名；(法)西卢埃特