英:[pɔːˈtreɪ]
美:[pɔːrˈtreɪ]
英:[pɔːˈtreɪ]
美:[pɔːrˈtreɪ]
por·tray
por treI
portrays, portraying, portrayed
portrayable (adj.), portrayer (n.)
词根:portray
n.portrayal 描绘;画像,肖像
portrayer 记述者;描画者;肖像画家
Verb
1. portray in words;
"The book portrays the actor as a selfish person"
2. make a portrait of;
"Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba"
3. assume or act the character of;
"She impersonates Madonna"
"The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man"
4. represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture, or verbally;
"The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting"
13世纪中期, portraien,意为“绘制,描绘”(某物),源自盎格鲁-法语 purtraire,古法语 portraire(12世纪),“描绘,绘画”,字面意思是“追踪,描绘”,由 por- “向前”(来自拉丁语 pro-; 参见 pro-)和 traire “追踪,描绘”组成,源自拉丁语 trahere “拖,拉”(参见 tract(n.1))。意为“用言语描绘,描述”的含义始于14世纪晚期。相关词汇: Portrayed; portrayer; portraying。
拉丁语 protrahere 的意思是“拉出”,但在中世纪拉丁语中也有“绘画,描绘”的意思。
Middle English portraien, from Anglo-French purtraire, from Latin protrahere to draw forth, reveal, expose — more at protract
The first known use of portray was in the 14th century
portrayalnoun
the act or process of portraying : representation
portrait sense 1
portrayverb
to make a portrait of
to describe in words
to play the role of
1 They often portray the great bird in beaten silver, which also reminds me of the garuda.
他们氏族的图腾是山鹰,而这个鹰经常被描绘为银色的, 这让我想起了藏族的银翅鸟.
2 If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it.
如果要想表现爱情,就必须感受到爱情。
3 Was Weeton as she portrayed herself, an entirely innocent victim?
维顿真的是,如其自己所描述的, 一个完全无辜的受害者 吗 ?
4 She is sometimes portrayed in the media as busy or overburdened and driving a minivan.
媒体有时候会把这类女性描述为忙碌或不堪重负,并且时常开一辆小型货车.
5 In films and on the vaudeville stage blacks were portrayed as comic dolts, stupid and lazy, unable to speak proper English, much less sing fluently in foreign languages.
6 Mourinho is portrayed as an apostle of cynicism but his general ideas belong in the mainstream.
穆里尼奥被描述成一个犬儒主义的传道者,但是他的基本思想应该在主流中占有一席之地.
7 The movie also requires use of modeling action and characters to portray figures.
而影视剧中更要求运用造型动作和人物造型去刻画人物.
8 The lawyer portrayed his client as a victim of child abuse.
9 He portrayed himself as a victim.
10 The Klan portrayed itself as the patriotic defender of law and morality in turbulent times, but the group actually caused much of the lawlessness and terror that gripped the region during those postbellum years.
11 The image I portray and the example I set becomes tarnished.
我所树立的形象和榜样也会因此被玷污。
12 Perhaps they have a different sort of spaceship or ray gun, but in battle—and science fiction loves to portray battles between civilizations—they and we are rather evenly matched.
13 Instead, the typical illustration portrays a happy family scene, father and son smilingly preparing to apply the chemical to the lawn, small children tumbling over the grass with a dog.
14 It as scary, if not more , than portraying American gay cowboys.
这点和描绘美国同性恋牛仔的恐怖程度不相上下.
15 But Copernicus looks nothing like the image of Copernicus that appears in other sources, where he is always portrayed as young and clean-shaven.
16 Mkentane portrayed his namesake, while I played John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin.
17 They portray the scene of milking, polishing felt or goats fighting , hawk flying.
或表现挤奶 、 擀毡,或模拟山羊顶角 、 雄鹰展翅.
18 Their features were portrayed accurately enough to identify their stage of development.
19 Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman’s shape to the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine.
20 In reality, the United States wasn’t as gullible as it had been portrayed.
2 描绘
portrait portrayal draw represent paint render characterize descriptive picture description representation depiction describe capture depict characterization make show trace rendering
3 画…的肖像
4 描写
representative descriptive study image picture description representation depiction portrayal delineation presentment give describe draw represent qualify render depict delineate limn portrait vignette write run paint depictive portraiture figure depaint character
6 表现
pheno- performance treatment expression representation projection manifestation showing stop come give state wear perform catch interview conduct bear demonstrate cast exhibit quit showcase depict acquit comport expressive represent show display exhibition demonstration playing comportment do make project present characterize behave emanate evince put up surface reflection portrayal act comport yourself conduct yourself bear yourself carry yourself make a statement
7 扮演
representation impersonation play-acting personation play act figure do perform represent enact impersonate personate ACT sustain play-act be take mime act a part on-screen rendering run through come the impersonative representational execution support present
8 刻画
10 画
painting fecit do produce rule picture draw paint painted portrayal presentment character describe touch draft plot depict blazon protract pinxit pnxt. pxt. fec. grapho- impaint take run strike trace scribe limn
11 描述
story version description presentation representation portrait recital present character picture describe represent paint retail sing depict overdraw blazon narrativize descriptive account depiction descriptor recount delineate go into treatment tale follow label trace set out set forth vignette give etch