• n. 卡通片，[电影] 动画片；连环漫画
• vt. 为…画漫画
• vi. 画漫画

来自词根cart, 卡片，词源同card, chart. -oon, 大词后缀。原指在硬纸板上的素描画。

cartoon

cartoon: [17] Cartoon comes via French carton from Italian cartone, which meant literally ‘strong heavy paper, pasteboard’ (it was a derivative of carta ‘paper’, which came from Latin charta, source also of English card, carton, chart, and charter). Its meaning was in due course transferred to the preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper, the original and for nearly two centuries the only sense of the word in English; ‘But the sight best pleased me was the cartoons by Raphael, which are far beyond all the paintings I ever saw’, Hatton family correspondence, 1697.

Its application to comic drawings in newspapers and magazines began in the 1840s.
=> card, carton, chart, charter

cartoon (n.)

1670s, "a drawing on strong paper (used as a model for another work)," from French carton, from Italian cartone "strong, heavy paper, pasteboard," thus "preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper" (see carton). Extension to comical drawings in newspapers and magazines is 1843.

Punch has the benevolence to announce, that in an early number of his ensuing Volume he will astonish the Parliamentary Committee by the publication of several exquisite designs, to be called Punch's Cartoons! ["Punch," June 24, 1843]

Also see -oon.

cartoon (v.)

1864 (implied in cartooned), from cartoon (n.). Related: Cartooning.

1. A prince turns into a frog in this cartoon fairytale.

在这个卡通童话里王子变成了一只青蛙。

来自柯林斯例句

2. a Walt Disney cartoon

迪斯尼动画片

来自《权威词典》

3. the cartoon figure of the mad scientist working in his laboratory

疯狂的科学家在实验室工作的卡通形象

来自《权威词典》

4. His cartoon mercilessly lampoon the leading politician of the day.

他的讽刺漫画无情地挖苦了当今的政界要人.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. The cartoon diverted the children.

那部卡通片转移了孩子们的注意力.

来自《简明英汉词典》