silhouette
音标：
/ˌsɪlʊ'et/
英英释义：
①A silhouette is the solid dark shape that you see when someone or something has a bright light or pale background behind them.【n.(浅色或强光背景下衬托出的)暗色轮廓，影像,剪影】
②The silhouette of something is the outline that it has, which often helps you to recognize it.【n.形状;外形;轮廓】
例句：
①The dark silhouette of the castle ruins stood out boldly against the fading light.
城堡遗迹的黑色轮廓在暮色映衬下清晰可见。
②The shirt's ideal worn loose over leggings or tuck it in for a streamlined silhouette .
这件衬衫最好是松松垮垮地穿在紧身裤外面，或者是塞进裤子里以显出苗条的身材。
Matt Haig的新书 The Midnight Library 也出现了这个表达：
这里再拓展一个固定搭配：in silhouette 呈侧面影像;呈黑色轮廓像 【If you see something in silhouette, you see it as a dark shape with no detail except for the outline.】
举个栗子：
Even from behind in silhouette , Billy recognized the figure.
即便看到的只是背影的轮廓，比利还是认出了那个人影。
Taylor Swift 的歌 Enchanted 也出现了这个词汇：
do away with
杀死;干掉;自杀
英文释义：
If one person does away with another, the first murders the second. If you do away with yourself, you kill yourself.
例句：
A woman whose husband had made several attempts to do away with her.
一个被丈夫几次三番下毒手的女人
《经济学人》一篇题为 Terminal value 的文章也出现了这个表达：
拓展：
bump sb off 也可以表示 “杀死，干掉某人 ”【To bump someone off means to kill them.】
Eg:
They will probably bump you off anyway!
不管怎样他们很可能会干掉你！
再回到“do away with ”这个短语，它还有一个意思，可以表示“消除;终止;废除”【To do away with something means to remove it completely or put an end to it.】
举个没剥皮的栗子：
The long-range goal must be to do away with nuclear weapons altogether.
远期目标必须是将核武器尽数销毁。
（这个意思比较常见哦~）
