shape/figure/form.导航词义：形状

1. shape:n. 形状，外形.指物体的外形，侧重于外观上的几何形状，也可指人或物模糊而蒙眬的影子。

My room is in the shape of a square.

我的房间是正方形的。

Dough can be kneaded into any shape.

面团能揉成任何形状。

I made out two dim shapes in the dark.

我在黑暗中隐约看出两个模糊的影子。

2. figure:n. 身材，体形.指人体外部线条构成的轮廓，尤指女性的柔美身段。

The girl has a good figure but a plain face.

那个姑娘体形很美，但长相一般。

He's doing exercises to improve his figure.

他在锻炼塑身。

The dress showed off her lovely figure.

这条连衣裙衬托出她优美的身段。

3. form:n. 形状，外形.普通用词，指物体的外形时常可与 shape 换用，也可指人的体形或隐约可见的影子。

Churches are often built in the form/shape of a cross.

教堂常常建成十字形。

A slender form of a woman appeared at the top of the stairs.

一个身材苗条的女人出现在楼梯顶上。

He made out a shadowy form in front of him.

他隐约认出了前面的模糊人影。

全部

1·It is cylindrical in shape.

它是圆柱形的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The knives were bent out of shape.

那些刀已经弯曲变形了。《牛津词典》

3·She had a classical, womanly shape.

她有一副标准的女人味儿十足的身材。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·The wheel had been twisted out of shape.

轮子已经扭曲变形了。《牛津词典》

5·He bent the wire into the shape of a square.

他把铁丝折成正方形。《牛津词典》

6·She made a New Year's resolution to get in shape.

她立下了新年决议，要改善体形。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

7·Squares, circles and triangles are types of shape.

正方形、圆形和三角形是三种形状。《牛津词典》

8·You can recognize the fish by the shape of their fins.

你可以根据鳍的形状来辨认这种鱼。《牛津词典》

9·Mould the mixture into shape while hot, before it hardens.

在混合物变硬之前，趁热将其塑造成形。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

10·She even had plastic surgery to change the shape of her nose.

她甚至做过整形手术来改变鼻子的形状。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

形状

1·Squares, circles and triangles are types of shape.

正方形、圆形和三角形是三种形状。《牛津词典》

2·You can recognize the fish by the shape of their fins.

你可以根据鳍的形状来辨认这种鱼。《牛津词典》

3·She even had plastic surgery to change the shape of her nose.

她甚至做过整形手术来改变鼻子的形状。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·The potter shaped and squeezed the lump of clay into a graceful shape.

制陶工人把一块黏土塑形，压成漂亮的形状。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Each mirror is made to order and can be designed to almost any shape or size.

每面镜子都是定制做的，而且能设计成几乎任何形状或规格。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

形

1·Canada geese flying in a V shape can fly seventy percent farther without having a rest than the birds flying alone.

与单独飞行的鸟类相比，以V形飞行的加拿大鹅在没有休息的情况下可以多飞行百分之七十的距离。

2·Canada geese flying in a V shape can fly seventeen percent farther without having a rest than the birds flying alone.

与单独飞行的鸟类相比，以 V 形飞行的加拿大鹅在没有休息的情况下可以多飞17％。

3·While the moons' rapid rotation would be enough to squash them into a smooth oval, it can't explain the rim around the centre of the saucer shape.

虽然卫星的快速旋转足以将它们挤压成一个光滑的椭圆形，但它无法解释碟形中心的边缘。

4·When water is pumped out of a chamber below the plate creating negative pressure, the stretchable sensors are pulled down, producing a concave shape.

当水从板下的一个腔中被抽出来产生负压时，可伸缩的传感器被向下拉，形成一个凹形。

5·Most antennas are made in the shape of a dish to collect and reflect the radio waves to the sub reflector, in the same way as a curved mirror focuses visible light to one point.

大多数天线被制成碟形，用以收集和反射无线电波至亚反射器，就像曲面镜将可见光聚焦于一点一样。

塑造

1·Like it or not, our families shape our lives and make us what we are.

不管喜欢与否，我们的家庭塑造我们的生活并铸就我们的个性。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Holiday celebrations help shape the cultural identity of a country.

节日庆典有助于塑造一个国家的文化认同。

3·That's an opportunity to shape that system differently, and if we can, it will have tremendous significance.

这是一个以不同的方式塑造这一体系的机会，如果我们能够做到，它将具有巨大的意义。

4·Secondly, by being a positive role model for their children, parents can shape their characters to a great extent.

其次，通过成为孩子的积极榜样，父母可以在很大程度上塑造他们的性格。

5·Genes and the environment interact in many complex ways to shape individuals and guide their behavior, including their curiosity.

基因和环境以许多复杂的方式相互作用，塑造个体并指导他们的行为，包括他们的好奇。

外形

1·The proposed new structure is notable not only for its height, but for its shape.

那座提议的新建筑值得注意，不仅因其高度，还因其外形。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·They have no defined shape as basketball players.

他们没有轮廓分明的篮球运动员的外形。

3·CarriRo, in the shape of a toy bus, has friendly eyes on its front.

CarriRo 车身外形酷似一辆玩具巴士，车头有一双友好的“眼睛”。

4·You know, like nouns, to name the type of predator they spotted, adjectives to describe its size and shape, verbs.

这些“语言”包括一些描述它们发现的捕猎者类型的名词，描述其大小和外形的形容词、动词等等。

5·And each of them has its unique shape.

它们中的每一个都有着独特的外形。

形成

1·Completely new relations between teachers and students are taking shape in our school.

崭新的师生关系正在我们学校中形成。《新英汉大辞典》

2·Transits have helped shape our view of the whole Universe, as Heather Cooper and Nigel Henbest explain.

正如希瑟·库珀和奈杰尔·亨贝斯特解释的那样，凌日帮助我们形成了对整个宇宙的看法。

3·The different rods, placed at a height of two meters, shape a continuous mesh that cuts down the height of the establishment.

不同的杆，放置在两米的高度，形成一个连续的网格，“削减”了设施的高度。

4·The painter Peter Brandon never dated his works, and their chronology is only now beginning to take shape in the critical literature.

画家彼得·布兰登的作品从来没有标注过日期，其时间表现在才开始在批评文献中形成。

5·Your education is bound to shape your world view.

一个人接受的教育必定会决定其世界观的形成。《牛津词典》

状

1·The great grey shape of a tank rolled out of the village.

一个坦克状的巨大灰影从村子里开了出来。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·He tucked the coal into the center of the clockwork, and placed it all on the skin, and wrapped it up and tight it into a cocoon shape.

他把煤块塞进钟形装置的中心，并全部放在表壳上，然后紧紧地裹成一个茧状。

3·What about a sparkly border, or using card stock that has a subtle shimmer? Or, use a wax seal on your envelopes in the shape of a feather, bow or the flower pattern on your wedding dress.

考虑给你的婚礼请柬增加一些补充的细节，比如一条金边或是闪光的卡纸，或是用蜂蜡在请柬上盖一个羽毛状的印章，在婚纱上加一些蝴蝶结、花边。

4·This is possibly because of the eye shape present upon these feathers i.e. the Evil-Eye associated with wickedness.

这可能源于孔雀羽毛上上带有眼状的图案，而这些“恶眼”与邪恶有关。

5·As seen here, some sapphires, when cut to a convex shape, exhibit a striking six-pointed star in direct sunlight.

正如我们所见，被切割成凸镜状蓝宝石会在阳光直射下呈现出一个六角星。

形式

1·It is a space in which society itself understood as discourse jostles for attention and struggles somehow or another to shape itself into intelligibility.

它是一个空间，在里面，社会自身被理解成对话，以某种形式争夺人们的注意力和努力，以使自己变得可理解。

2·This metadata API not only defines the shape of the data in the relational data store, but also defines the queries associated with that data and establishes relationships between different objects.

这种元数据API不仅定义关系数据存储中数据的形式，而且定义与该数据相关联的查询，并建立了不同对象之间的关系。

3·I happen to think the constraints help shape startups into something unlike the world has ever seen before if they are not killed by the harsh climate first.

我碰巧想到如果他们一开始没有被艰难的环境所击败，经历这些限制也许可以使这些企业创办成世界上从未见过的形式。

4·Other firms that have survived the slump in retailing in reasonable shape also seem to be looking for indebted competitors to snap up.

那些以适当形式从衰退中走出的其他零售行业公司似乎也在寻找负债的竞争者来使自身获得增长。

5·They never got to learn the beauty and shape and structure of language.

他们不需要去学习语言结构的魅力和形式。

身材

1·She had a classical, womanly shape.

她有一副标准的女人味儿十足的身材。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·If you want to get in shape fast, exercise longer, not harder.

如果你想快速地恢复身材，锻炼得久点，而不是更辛苦。

3·I need to get back in shape.

我要减回到原来的身材。

4·Is it the free time, the nice things, the great relationships, or being in the best shape of your life?

是因为自由的时间、漂亮的东西、深厚的关系、还是能够拥有生命中最魔鬼的身材？

5·Using digital white light, the scanner takes measurements from 16 angles and creates a graphic of the customer’s body shape in seconds.

这款扫描仪应用数字化白光技术，从16个角度测量顾客的身材，数秒内就可以绘出体型图。

成形

1·Mould the mixture into shape while hot, before it hardens.

在混合物变硬之前，趁热将其塑造成形。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The climatic events of the Little Ice Age did more than help shape the modern world.

小冰河时期的气候事件不仅仅促进了现代世界的成形。

3·If control of intellectual property can nudge customers toward a particular smartphone, it might establish the shape of the market for a decade.

如果对知识产权的控制能够把用户推向一种特定的智能手机，那么十年就可以建立一个成形的市场。

4·The Western world's gradual movement towards something he calls secularity is what gives shape and meaning to his book.

西方世界向某种他称之为“世俗主义”的方向靠拢，而这正是本书所以成形及其意义所在。

5·The Western world's gradual movement towards something he calls “secularity” is what gives shape and meaning to his book.

西方世界向某种他称之为“世俗主义”的方向靠拢，而这正是本书所以成形及其意义所在。

(1)in shape在外形上；处于良好状态

(1)take shapev. 形成；成形；体现；具体化

(1)in the shape of以…的形式；呈…的形状

(1)out of shape走样；身体状况不佳

(1)in good shape精神或身体状态好；处于很好的状态；良好的体形；体力好

(1)shape memory形状记忆；外形记忆