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

• 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。
• Her book portrays the king as a cruel man.
  她的书把国王描绘成一个残暴的人。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The diary portrays his family as quarrelsome and malicious.
  日记中描述了他家反宅乱的事。
• 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？
• The book portrays the actor as a selfish person.
  这本书把演员描绘成一个自私的人。
• 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。