the picture of

1. 与……非常相像
   The small girl is the picture of her mother.

   那小女孩与她母亲长得一模一样。

2. 是……的化身（或体现）
   That boy is the picture of health.

   那男孩非常健康。

come into the picture

1. 有牵连
   We did not expect that you had come into the picture at all.

   我们当时根本没想到你会有牵连。

get the picture

1. 了解情况
   Your wife ran away with your best friend. Now do you get the picture?

   你的老婆跟你好友私奔了。现在你知道了吗？

   I explained the point to her again and again, and finally she got the picture.

   我就那一点向她再三解释，后来她终于明白了。

go to the pictures

1. 去看电影
   They often go to the pictures.

   她们经常去看电影。

out of the picture

1. 不相干的
   In talking about this, you could hardly keep the housing problem out of the picture.

   谈到这一点，就不可能不谈及住房问题。

picture to oneself

1. 想像
   She pictured to herself the family sitting by the fire.

   她想像着一家人围坐在火炉旁的情形。

put sb. in the picture

1. 把情况告诉某人
   He's been away for several weeks, and we'd better put him in the picture at once.

   他离开了几星期，我们最好立即把情况告诉他。

• be (or look) a picture
  
  1. be beautiful.
  2. look amusingly startled.
• the big picture
  informal the situation as a whole.
• a (or the) picture of ——
  the embodiment of a specified state or emotion:
  she looked a picture of health.
• (as) pretty as a picture
  very pretty.