portrays

英 [pɔːˈtreɪz]

美 [pɔːrˈtreɪz]

v.  描绘; 描画; 描写; 将…描写成; 给人以某种印象; 表现; 扮演(某角色)
portray的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 扮演；饰演
  When an actor or actressportrayssomeone, he or she plays that person in a play or film.
  1. In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of 'Camelot'.
     他1975年在洛杉矶重新上演的剧目《卡米洛》中扮演国王。
  2. ...the busty and rumbustious Mrs Hall, excellently portrayed by Toni Palmer.
     由托妮·帕默精彩演绎的胸部丰满、吵吵嚷嚷的霍尔太太
• VERB 描绘；描述
  When a writer or artistportrayssomething, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it.
  1. ...this northern novelist, who accurately portrays provincial domestic life.
     这位准确描述外省家庭生活的北方小说家
  2. ...the landscape as portrayed by painters such as Claude and Poussin.
     克劳德和普桑等画家所描绘的风景
• VERB 表现；刻画
  If a film, book, or television programmeportrayssomeone in a certain way, it represents them in that way.
  1. She says the programme portrayed her as a 'lady of easy virtue'.
     她说这个节目把她刻画成了一个“水性杨花的女人”。
  2. ...complaints about the way women are portrayed in adverts.
     抗议在广告中如此刻画女性

双语例句

• The book portrays the actor as a selfish person.
  这本书把演员描绘成一个自私的人。
• It portrays him as cold and uncaring.
  其中把他描绘成了一个冷漠无情的人。
• Lee Hoi-chang portrays himself as the "real" conservative in this years's race.
  李会昌将自己描述为在今年竞选中一位“真正的”保守派。
• Your media portrays your country as the one having hegemonic characters.
  你们的媒体把你们的国家描述得就像一个霸权国家。
• Figure 10.2 portrays a monopoly or cartel that has managed to extract maximum profits from its buyers.
  图10-2展示了一个想方设法向其买主榨取了最大利润的垄断集团或卡特尔的情况。
• The revealing book portrays a world-class genius, and at the same time, a "tyrant".
  这本书在描绘出一位世界一流天才的同时，也刻画出一位“暴君”。
• Hitchcock plays beautifully with the script and the screenplay and portrays the monsters within.
  希区柯克娴熟地运用脚本和剧本，对电影中的人物进行了深度地刻画。
• The novel portrays the growth of an artist. indicating an art or a descriptive science
  这本小说描写了一个艺术家的成长。表示某种艺术或描述性的学科
• In the movie Dr. Strangelove, Sellers portrays a brilliant but psychotic physicist.
  在电影《斯坦洛夫博士》中，赛勒斯刻画了一个卓越的但精神变态的物理学家。
• In today's drawing American cartoonist Stuart Carlson portrays a typical Yuletide scene with a comic twist.
  在今天的漫画中，美国漫画家斯图尔特-卡尔森描绘了一个典型的圣诞节期间的场面，这一场面带有意想不到的滑稽变化。