每日专业英语4-Clip Art

Clip art is a collection of pictures or images that can be imported into a document or another program. The images may be either raster graphics or vector graphics. Clip art galleries many contain anywhere from a few images to hundreds of thousands of images.剪贴画是一组可以导入文档或另一个程序的图片或图像。这些图像可以是位图图形或矢量图形。剪贴画库可能包含从几张到数十万张图片。

Clip art is typically organized into categories, such as people, objects, nature, etc., which is especially helpful when browsing through thousands of images. Most clip art images also have keywords associated with them. For example, a picture of a female teacher in a classroom may have the keywords "school," "teacher," "woman," "classroom," and "students" associated with it. Most clip art programs allow you to search for images based on these keywords.剪贴画通常按类别组织，如人物、物体、自然等，这在浏览数千张图片时特别有帮助。大多数剪贴画图像也有关联的关键词。例如，一张女性教师在教室的图片可能有关联关键词“学校”、“教师”、“女人”、“教室”和“学生”。大多数剪贴画程序允许您根据这些关键词搜索图像。

When you find a clip art image you want to use, you can copy it to your computer's clipboard and paste it into another program, such as Photoshop or Microsoft Word. You may also be able to export the image to the Desktop or another folder on your hard disk. Most clip art is royalty free, meaning you can use the images without paying royalties to the creators of the images. So if you buy a clip art package with 50,000 images for $50.00, you are only paying 1/10 of one cent for each image. That's a pretty good deal.当你找到想要使用的剪贴画图片时，你可以将其复制到电脑的剪贴板，并将其粘贴到另一个程序中，例如 Photoshop 或 Microsoft Word。你还可以将图片导出到桌面或硬盘上的另一个文件夹。大多数剪贴画都是免费的，这意味着你可以使用这些图片而无需向图片的创作者支付版税。所以如果你以 50.00 美元的价格购买包含 50,000 张图片的剪贴画包，你每张图片只需支付 0.1 美分的 1/10。这真是个不错的交易。