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a tableau of [noun]
tableau 常与 of 连用，表示“某一主题或人群的生动场景”。
The painting shows a tableau of soldiers in battle.
这幅画展示了士兵在战斗中的生动场面。
活人造型；生动场面
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活人造型；生动场面
a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)
The painting shows a tableau of soldiers in battle.
这幅画展示了士兵在战斗中的生动场面。
鲜明生动的表现或场景；图画
A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture.
如画般优美排列的一群人
a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)
一群人或多件物品如绘画或浮雕般排列的生动画面
A vivid graphic scene of a group of people or objects arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.
任何戏剧性场景
any dramatic scene
The actors held still on the stage, creating a beautiful tableau of the village wedding.
演员们在舞台上保持不动，构成了一幅村庄婚礼的美丽画面。
The holiday parade featured a tableau of children dressed as snowflakes.
节日游行中呈现了一组由打扮成雪花的孩子组成的造型。
Tourists stopped to photograph the tableau of dancers in the town square.
游客们停下来拍摄广场上舞者组成的生动场面。
tableau 常与 of 连用，表示“某一主题或人群的生动场景”。
The painting shows a tableau of soldiers in battle.
这幅画展示了士兵在战斗中的生动场面。
in a tableau 表示“以静止造型的方式”，多用于戏剧、摄影等语境。
The actors froze in a tableau at the end of the scene.
演员们在场景结束时定格成一个静止的画面。
Not this
The tableaux was a beautiful scene.
Use this
The tableau was a beautiful scene.
“tableau” 是单数，“tableaux” 是复数，虽然二者读音相同。原句把复数形式 tableaux 当作主语，却用了单数谓语 was；表达“一个生动的场面”时，主语应改为单数 tableau，谓语 was 才一致。
Not this
The data is shown in a tableau.
Use this
The data is shown in a table.
“tableau” 指“活人造型”或“如画的场景”，不表示“表格/图表”；表示数据表格应用 table。学习者常因形近而把 tableau 误当成 table 使用，这会改变原意。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
活人造型；静态舞台画面
The wedding scene was presented as a tableau vivant.
婚礼场景以活人造型的形式呈现。
戏剧性的场面
The protest formed a dramatic tableau outside the parliament.
抗议活动在议会外构成了一幅戏剧性的场面。
……的生动场面
The play opens with a tableau of a 19th-century kitchen.
该剧以一幅19世纪厨房的生动场面开场。
凝固的场面
The family stood in a frozen tableau of grief.
一家人悲伤地站着，像一幅凝固的画面。
最后一幕画面
The final tableau of the ballet left the audience breathless.
芭蕾舞剧的最后一幕画面让观众惊叹不已。
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把 tableau 拆成 table（桌子）+ au（哦）：想象桌面上陈列着一组人物造型，宛如一幅活生生的画，场面生动。
语域：formal 常见场景：艺术与戏剧场景、文学及正式描述 tableau 通常用于正式或文学性的语境，表示像绘画一样生动呈现的场面或群体造型；在日常口语中比较少见。
Words with a final stressed /oʊ/—plateau, blow, though—rhyme with tableau. Plateau also shares the -eau spelling, as does bureau, but bureau stresses its first syllable (/ˈbjʊroʊ/), so it does not rhyme. Table and taboo look similar at the start but sound completely different.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.