tableau
tableau 英 [ˈtæbləʊ] 美 [ˈtæbloʊ]
n. 画面；活人画；戏剧性局面；生动的场面（复数tableaux）
名词复数:tableaux
- A tableau is a dramatic picture. If you catch a glance into the Oval Office and see top advisers speaking to each other with intensity, you behold a dramatic political tableau.
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- n. 画面；活人画；戏剧性局面；生动的场面（复数tableaux）
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1. Dad cupped the back of my head with his large hand, and I thought this homecoming tableau might go on forever.
爸爸用他的大手包住我的后脑勺，我想这个欢迎回家的生动场面还会永远继续下去。
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2. The unnerving tableau sent the landlord straight to the police station, where officers speculated that his tenants had no doubt left town temporarily.
那令人不安的画面使房东径直走进了警察局，而那里的警官们只是推测他的房客们不过是暂时离开镇上而已。
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3. No, really. The whole tableau seemed so ridiculously domestic to Nash that he immediately sat down and spent the rest of the day writing about it.
这整个画面对nash来说都是如此可笑地温馨，于是他马上坐下来用这一天余下的时间来把他们写出来。
- tableau (n.) 1690s, "a picturesque or graphic description or picture," from French tableau "picture, painting" (12c.), from Old French table "slab, writing tablet" (see table (n.)) + diminutive suffix -eau, from Latin -ellus. Hence tableau-vivant (1817) "person or persons silent and motionless, enacting a well-known scene, incident, painting, etc.," 19c. parlor game, literally "living picture."
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