1. 生动的场面：table-water 饮用水 | tableau vivant 生动的场面 | tableau 生动的场面
2. 雕塑剧：地方戏 local opera | 雕塑剧 tableau vivant | 东北闹子 Naotzu of Manchuria
1. Watching this tableau vivant of a submissive Afghan bride, I knew that marriage would never be my easy roué to the East.
显然在至高无上的道德面前，我叔叔的妻子败下阵来；即使在睿智方面，她好像也是个输家。
2. Photography is a kind of primitive theater, a kind of Tableau Vivant, a figuration of the motionless and made-up face beneath which we see the dead.
植物人版本：摄影是一种时光舞台，是静止的动态画面，是我们在事物的静止和篡改下所看到的死亡之脸。
3. Photography is a kind of primitive theater, a kind of Tableau Vivant, a figuration of the motionless and made-up face beneath which we see the dead.- Roland Barthes
摄影是一种原生态的光影舞台，是动态的静止画面，是由静止刻画出的造型和经捏造和篡改过的表象--在其之下，我们发现：死亡。
noun
1. a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)
Synonym: tableau