英 [pɔːˈtreɪ] 美 [pɔːrˈtreɪ]
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
portray /pɔːˈtreɪ/ CET6 TEM4 [ portraying portrayed portrays ]
及物动词 When an actor or actress portrays someone, he or she plays that person in a play or movie. 扮演
In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of "Camelot."
1975年他在洛杉矶重演的戏剧《卡米洛特》中扮演国王。
及物动词 When a writer or artist portrays something, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it. 描绘 (事物)
The film portrays a culture of young people who live in lower Manhattan.
这部电影描绘了在下曼哈顿地区生活的青年人文化。
及物动词 If a movie, book, or television programme portrays someone in a certain way, it represents them in that way. (以某种方式) 刻画 (某人)
...complaints about the way women are portrayed in ads.
…不满于广告中对妇女的刻画方式。
portray in words
The book portrays the actor as a selfish person
represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture, or verbally
The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting
同义词： present
描绘
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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。
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。
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？
In a telephone interview, he described the communiqus as a desperate measure used occasionally by the rebels to portray the region as being in turmoil.
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I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that has always interested me and I've liked the idea of trying to portray dreams on film."
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And to the extent these portray an unrealistic or unfair or biased perception of the world we could construct stereotypes that are faithful to the data we're getting but the data is not representative.
因为媒体,没有真实，公平，不偏不倚地反映世界,我们的刻板印象,就会根据这些信息来形成,但这些信息并不能以一概全。
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In May last year the government said no new films or TV programmes could portray smoking.
The continued speculation and uncertainty is allowing our opponents to portray us as dispirited and disunited.
Then, he will portray his opponent and the Republicans as too extreme to govern.