portray
描绘
常用释义
英音[ pɔːˈtreɪ ]
美音[ pɔːrˈtreɪ ]
基本释义
- v. 描绘，描写；（在艺术或文学作品中）描述，刻画；（在电影、戏剧等中）扮演
考试频率
四级
考频：近五年出现1次
- v. 描绘; 塑造
六级
考频：近五年出现8次
- v. 描绘; 塑造
考研
考频：近六年出现4次
- vt. 描绘; 描述
- vt. ［戏剧］扮演; 饰演
例句
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1·He has worked hard in recent months to portray New York in a better light.最近几个月他一直努力工作要从一个更好的角度描绘纽约。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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2·Though advocates portray grass-fed products as a win-win situation for all, they do have downsides.尽管支持者将草饲产品描绘成对所有人都有利的双赢局面，但这些产品也有缺点。
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3·Why does cartoonist Mike Luckovich portray groundhog Phil confessing in front of reporters that he accepted money from the White House?漫画家麦克·卢科维奇为什么在画中描绘土拨鼠菲尔在记者面前承认自己收受了白宫的钱呢？
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4·Within this framework, Kennedy has been able to portray African American minds and souls liberated from their connections to the external environment.在这个框架下，肯尼迪已经能够描绘出非洲裔美国人的思想和从外部环境的联系中解放出来的灵魂。
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5·Because of their narrow bandwidth, CF signals portray only the target's presence and, in the case of some bat species, its motion relative to the bat's.因为它们的频宽很窄，CF 信号只能描绘目标的存在，而对于一些种类的蝙蝠来说，CF 信号还能描述目标相对于蝙蝠的运动。
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6·It's not that people's profiles are dishonest, says Catalina Toma of Wisconsin-Madison University, "but they portray an idealised version of themselves".威斯康星麦迪逊大学的卡特琳娜·托马说，这并不是说人们的简介不真实，“而是他们描绘了一个理想化的自己”。
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7·That's what we tried to portray in the book, this feeling of opulence and grandeur.那正是我们想要在这本书里所要营造的，那种繁荣且伟大的气氛。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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8·How can you portray something exactly as it is and at the same time distort it with emotions?你怎么可能一边完全客观的作画，一边又带有感情的去使之变形呢？
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9·If your characters' personalities are well defined, it will be easy for you as the writer to portray them realistically and believably in any given situation.如果你角色的性格被定义得很好，作为作者，你将很容易在任何特定情况下将他们描绘得真实可信。
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10·The other early chapters eloquently portray the development of the instinctive cooperation with each other that was already becoming an important tradition among workers.早期的其他章节雄辩地描述了人与人之间本能合作的发展，这种合作已经成为工人之间的一个重要传统。
同根词
词根：
portray
portrayal
n
描绘；画像，肖像
portrayer
n
记述者；描画者；肖像画家