| 词汇 | effigy |
| 释义 | effigySculpture ef·fi·gy /ˈefɪdʒi/ noun (plural effigies) 1 AVS[countableC] a statue of a famous person 〔名人的〕雕像，塑像 effigy of an effigy of Saint Francis 圣方济各的雕像 2 PS[uncountableU] a roughly made, usually ugly, model of someone you dislike 〔丑化人的〕模拟像 a threat to burn the president in effigy 威胁要焚烧总统模拟像 Examples from the Corpus effigy• I could not even bayonet an effigy of Kaiser Bill convincingly.• An effigy of Mr MacSharry was burned by protesting farmers in Strasbourg last week in a violent protest against the deal.• There was no crew but effigies of sailors lined the decks.• Candidates who wanted enclosure were burned in effigy, their supporters wheeled about in muck-carts in the robust eighteenth-century fashion.• The mob had already burnt in effigy Andrew Oliver and his new stamp office before doing some damage to his house.• During the annual Pope Day at Newport and Boston, crowds burned the pope in effigy.• There he lay, in knightly stone effigy, with a row of eight knights in stone cartoon-strip below him.• Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, as depicted in his tomb effigy. effigy of• Protesters unveiled an effigy of the mayor. burn ... in effigy• The mob had already burnt in effigy Andrew Oliver and his new stamp office before doing some damage to his house. (1500-1600) Latin effigies, from effingere “to form” |
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