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

  1. VERB 扮演;饰演
    When an actor or actress portrays someone, 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
  2. VERB 描绘;描述
    When a writer or artist portrays something, 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
  3. VERB 表现;刻画
    If a film, book, or television programme portrays someone 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

  1. He portrays the psyche as poly-centric.
    在他的描绘中精神是多中心的。
  2. It portrays him as cold and uncaring.
    其中把他描绘成了一个冷漠无情的人。
  3. This portrays her as wimpy, but she has a very strong character.
    这把她描绘得很懦弱,其实她性格十分坚强。
  4. The novel portrays the growth of a fighter.
    这本小说描写了一个战士的成长。
  5. The timing diagram portrays lifelines across a period of time.
    计时图描述了一个时期内的生命线。
  6. 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”。
  7. 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。
  8. My research notes found more of a modern, sleek and refined sense of design and business styles than their current logo portrays.
    我的研究笔记发现了现代,时尚和精致的设计和业务常识,比目前的标志样式描绘。
  9. 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。
  10. 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。
  11. The book portrays the actor as a selfish person.
    这本书把演员描绘成一个自私的人。
  12. 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。
  13. I firmly believe that it is the intrinsic beauty of nature that portrays this unforgettable painting in my memory.
    我深信是大自然与生俱来的力量和美丽赐予了我那幅永生难忘的画面。
  14. 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。
  15. 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。
  16. 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。
  17. He also wrote the song of Solomon which is a Book of the love between a man and a woman, and beautifully portrays the marriage between Christ and the saints.
    他还写作了所罗门之歌,描写了一对男女的爱情,它是一篇优美的诗歌,意指了基督与圣徒之间的婚姻。
  18. Her book portrays the king as a cruel man.
    她的书把国王描绘成一个残暴的人。
  19. 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?
  20. 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。
  21. The painting portrays his second wife.
    这幅画画的是他的第二任妻子。
  22. The diary portrays his family as quarrelsome and malicious.
    日记中描述了他家反宅乱的事。
  23. 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。
  24. The author portrays the campus as a very pleasant place.
    作者把该校园描写成一个令人很愉快的地方。
  25. It portrays an artistic concept through the skill of hyperbole with a romantic flavor.
    以夸张的艺术手法塑造了奔马的艺术形态,意境带有浪漫主义色彩。
  26. 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
  27. The picture portrays a father singing a lullaby to his baby.
    这幅图描绘一个唱摇篮曲给孩子听的父亲。
  28. 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。