第三人称单数：portrays
现在分词：portraying
过去分词：portrayed
portray的反义词
过去式：portrayed
及物动词
1. Who portrayed king Lear?
谁扮演李尔王？
2. Dickens portrayed his characters to the life.
狄更斯把他笔下的人物描绘得栩栩如生。
3. Her book portrays her stepfather as a cruel man.
她的书把继父描绘成残忍的人。
4. He portrayed King Lear in the play.
他在这戏里扮演李尔王。
1. 描写：[写作指导] 描写(Portray)就是用生动、形象的语言将人物、事物、景物等的特征和性质活灵活现地刻画或描绘出来,使读者如见其人、如闻其声、如临其境. 为了使人或事物的特征跃然纸上,我们往往在写文章时把叙述和描写结合起来.
2. 你可把蓝图心里：纵使别人一千遍Copy, | 你可把蓝图心里Portray, | 将爱的真谛细致Embody,
3. 画像,描绘：portentous 奇特,不祥的 | portray 画像,描绘 | proceed 继续,进行
1. 扮演；饰演
When an actor or actress portrays someone, he or she plays that person in a play or film.
e.g. 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。
e.g. ...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. 描绘；描述
When a writer or artist portrays something, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it.
e.g. ...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
e.g. ...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. 表现；刻画
If a film, book, or television programme portrays someone in a certain way, it represents them in that way.
e.g. 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”。
e.g. ...complaints about the way women are portrayed in adverts.
抗议在广告中如此刻画女性
1. The president's initial TV ads portray Bush as the nation's caretaker in troubled times.
2. Art historians have long believed that the stone carvings portray the tomb owners in their life after death in ancient China.
3. Depp will portray Barnabas Collins, a vampire living in a Maine manor who is searching for his lost love.
4. Tibetan oil painter Tsewang Tashi uses the colors of rose and lavender to portray the intense gaze and shimmering skins of his subjects.
5. These films not only portray the truths of local societies and humanity, but they also explore the many creative features of contemporary documentary filmmaking.
6. Liu reveals that he was so close to the things he wanted to portray that he feared his description would result in distortion.
7. The US operates its warships worldwide, apparently as deterrence and to portray itself as the champion of freedom of navigation.
8. Kevin Spacey is set to portray Richard III in an upcoming production directed by Sam Mendes.
9. Lawyers for Olivier sought to portray their client as the terrorized wife of a domineering husband.
10. A spate of bad news at the weekend underlined what the Obama campaign will portray as Republican mishandling of economic affairs.
verb
1. portray in words
e.g. The book portrays the actor as a selfish person
2. make a portrait of
e.g. Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba
3. represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture
e.g. The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting
Synonym: present
4. assume or act the character of
e.g. She impersonates Madonna
The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man
Synonym: impersonate