(noun.) a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand.
(noun.) artwork that helps make something clear or attractive.
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A very simple illustration of the working of a steam engine is given in Figure 128. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
A particularly interesting illustration of the results of this art occurred in Austria. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The Branson 15/16 Automatic Knitter, shown in Fig. 292, is a good modern illustration. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
In the illustration of the building I have not placed the proper number of studding, but the reader can rest assured that once in 16 inches is not too often. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
An illustration of the next latest type of this machine is presented in Fig. 2. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Accepting your illustration, surely we have one unquestionable virtue in England which is wanting in China. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
An illustration may give it content. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
In illustration of this idea he invented a crane, which was erected on Newcastle quay in 1846; another was constructed on the Albert dock at Liverpool, and others at other places. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
He looked like his illustration, as he raised his eyes to Mr. Lorry's face. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
Merely to the illustration of _your_ character, said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
A more pronounced illustration is to wet the hands in a basin of water, and then plunge them in the blast of hot, dry air coming from a furnace register. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
It is seen in the illustration, No. 93. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
A corkscrew is a familiar illustration of the screw. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
In Rome it became a science very early, and gave a considerable degree of illustration to those citizens who had the reputation of understanding it. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Mr. Langton Cole calls attention to the rope truss in this illustration, stiffening the beam of the ship. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Lubbock has recently remarked, that several minute crustaceans offer excellent illustrations of this law. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
A chisel and an ax are illustrations of wedges. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
The kitchen coffee grinder and the meat chopper are other familiar illustrations. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
They superseded wood engravings, which for years has been the recognized medium for illustrations to print on a type printing press. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
In Figs. 265 and 266 are shown illustrations from the Sixteenth Century, Fig. 265 representing a muzzle loader, and Fig. 266 a breech-loader. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
But this explanation does not account for the failure to use block printing in the case of illustrations and diagrams. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Many familiar illustrations of lenses, or curved refracting surfaces, and their work, are known to all of us. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
Simply, by the use of some of the machine types mentioned above, illustrations of which are known in a general way to every schoolboy. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
Coal and tar and soot are good illustrations of objects which absorb all the light which falls upon them. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
One of the best modern illustrations of human thought and complicated manual operations contained in automatic machinery is the _Linotype_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The history of literature and art furnishes us with illustrations of remarkable powers of visualization. 李贝.西洋科学史.
The trade signs (and they were almost as many as the shops) were, all, grim illustrations of Want. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The above extracts are good illustrations, however, of scientific opinions up to the end of 1879, when Mr. Edison's epoch-making invention rendered them entirely untenable. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
The illustrations show some of the steps necessary before the iron reaches the shipping room. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The illustrations represented in Fig. 177 show the parasites that cause malaria, or fever and ague. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.