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

• It portrays him as cold and uncaring.
  其中把他描绘成了一个冷漠无情的人。
• 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。
• 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。
• Her book portrays the king as a cruel man.
  她的书把国王描绘成一个残暴的人。
• 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。
• 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。
• The painting portrays his second wife.
  这幅画画的是他的第二任妻子。
• 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”。
• 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 novel portrays the growth of a fighter.
  这本小说描写了一个战士的成长。