illustration的常用短语是：用作名词(n.)by way of illustration举例说明 as an example。illustration的详尽释义是n.(名词)说明，表明实例，例证，例子，例释，示例插图，图解 ，图案， 图表，图示，插画故事写照。illustration的意思是n.说明；插图；图解；例证。
一、详尽释义点此查看illustration的详细内容
二、双解释义
三、词典解释
1.例证;实例
Anillustration is an example or a story which is used to make a point clear.
e.g. ...a perfectillustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.
英国吸收借鉴外来影响的绝好例证
2.插图;图案;图表
Anillustration in a book is a picture, design, or diagram.
e.g. She looked like a princess in a nineteenth-centuryillustration.
她看起来像19世纪插图读物中的公主。
3. see also: illustrate
四、例句
He used photographs as illustration for his talk.
他用照片为他的演讲作图片说明。
The scientist used vivid examples in illustration of his theory.
科学家以生动的例子说明他的理论。
This is the common case, and requires no illustration.
这是常见的情况，无需说明。
The text is accompanied by illustration.
正文附有插图。
Children like books filled with illustrations.
孩子们喜欢插图丰富的书。
The illustration shows Mr.John as prince in Hamlet.
这个插图说明约翰先生在《哈姆雷特》一剧中扮演王子这个角色。
Illustration is often more useful than definition for showing what words mean.
用图解或示例解释词义往往比用定义解释更清楚。
He just cited a farfetched illustration.
他举的例证有些勉强。
That's a typical illustration of his meanness.
那是说明他为人卑鄙的典型例子。
These defects can be brought out by the following illustration.
下面举例说明其不足之处。
五、常见句型
六、经典引文
Such an illustration, such an irradiation,..that by that light..he could have read in the night.
出自：DonneA divine illustration cleared his understanding.
出自：E. Vaux七、词义辨析
illustration的相关近义词
drawing、example、representative、instance、diagram、sketch、painting、exemplification、design、photograph、photo、image、figure、reference、graphic、exposition、visual、visual aid、explication、plate、demonstration、case in point、pattern、definition、model、specimen、sample、cartoon、portrait、picture
illustration的相关临近词
illustrious、illustrate、illustrations、illustrational、illustration board、illustration cycle、illustration object、illustration method、Illustration program、illustration board V、illustration audience、Illustration district