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)
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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

• It portrays him as cold and uncaring.
  其中把他描绘成了一个冷漠无情的人。
• Her book portrays the king as a cruel man.
  她的书把国王描绘成一个残暴的人。
• The writer portrays life in a workingclass community at the turn of the century.
  作家描写了世纪之交一个工人社区的生活。
• Not that the film portrays Malawian people as innocent victims of circumstances beyond their control.
  电影描述了遭受不可控环境袭扰的马拉维的无辜受害者。
• Based on a true story, the book portrays the village as a pleasant place.
  根据真实故事，此本书把这村庄描绘成一个令人愉快的地方。
• 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 painting portrays his second wife.
  这幅画画的是他的第二任妻子。
• What's the name of the actress who portrays the mother in that film?
  在电影里扮演母亲的女演员叫什么名字？
• 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。
• He has dropped his old bad-boy image and now portrays himself as something of an angel.
  他改掉了坏男孩的旧形象，现在把自己扮演得像个天使。