• n. 影像；想象；肖像；偶像
• vt. 想象；反映；象征；作…的像
• n. (Image)人名；(法)伊马热

来自拉丁语imitari,模仿，复制，词源同imitate.引申词义形象，印象，影像等。

image

image: [13] Latin imāgō meant a ‘likeness of something’ (it probably came from the same source as imitate). It subsequently developed a range of secondary senses, such as ‘echo’ and ‘ghost’, which have not survived the journey via Old French into English, but the central ‘likeness’ remains in place. Derived from the noun in Latin was the verb imāginārī ‘form an image of in one’s mind, picture to oneself’, which became English imagine [14]. (Latin imāgō, incidentally, was used in the 1760s by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus for an ‘adult insect’ – based on the Latin sense ‘natural shape’, the idea being that the insect had achieved its final perfect form after various pupal forms – and English took the term over at the end of the 18th century.)
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image (n.)

c. 1200, "piece of statuary; artificial representation that looks like a person or thing," from Old French image "image, likeness; figure, drawing, portrait; reflection; statue," earlier imagene (11c.), from Latin imaginem (nominative imago) "copy, statue, picture," figuratively "idea, appearance," from stem of imitari "to copy, imitate" (see imitation).

Meaning "reflection in a mirror" is early 14c. The mental sense was in Latin, and appears in English late 14c. Sense of "public impression" is attested in isolated cases from 1908 but not in common use until its rise in the jargon of advertising and public relations, c. 1958.

image (v.)

late 14c., "to form a mental picture," from Old French imagier, from image (see image (n.)). Related: Imaged; imaging.

1. The European Parliament badly needs a president who can burnish its image.

欧洲议会急需一位能改善其声望的主席。

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2. The outburst was inconsistent with the image he has cultivated.

这样大发脾气与他所树立的个人形象不相称。

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3. Their healthy image disguises the fact that they are highly processed foods.

它们看上去有益健康，实则掩盖了其为精加工食品这一事实。

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4. The initial image projected was of a caring, effective president.

他最初表现出的是一个充满爱心、办事有效的总统形象。

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5. The tobacco industry has been trying to improve its image.

烟草行业一直在试图改善其形象。

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