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基本双解英英辨析搭配短语近义反义句型用法例句Thesaurus例句
vt.描写¹⁰;描绘⁸⁴;饰演⁶原型portray的现在分词形容词portrayable名词portrayer过去分词portrayed现在分词portraying三单portrays
v.动词
vt. 画像; 描述present sb/sth in painting, in a book, etc., especially according to one's own ideas or so as to produce a certain effect vt. 扮演act the part of a particular character in a play
Verb:
portray in words;The book portrays the actor as a selfish person make a portrait of;Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba assume or act the character of;She impersonates Madonna The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture;The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting
v.动词
portray, depict, describe这组词都含有“描绘”“描述”的意思,其宾语可以是人、物,也可以是事物。它们之间的区别是: 1.describe指用语言文字描述; portray指通过故事、小说等方式用文字来描述,还可专指用笔描绘或绘画; depict指给物体着色或是素描,借用在文学上表示“描写”,强调外表、形象、色彩等具体细节。 例如: Words cannot describe my joy.言语不能形容我的快乐。
The book depicts him as a rather unpleas- ant character.这本书把他刻画成一个相当令人讨厌 的人物。
In British history books Richard Ⅲ is usu- ally portrayed as a wicked man.英国历史书通常把理查三世说成是个 坏人。2.describe和depict是生动地、具体地描述,力图将所叙述的内容像图片般栩栩如生地呈现在他人面前; portray是一般地描述。例如: The writer portrays life in a refugee camp very vividly.这位作者生动地描述了难民营中的生活。3.describe后可接疑问词引起的从句,而portray不能这样用。
用作动词 v.
～+介词portray as描绘成portray in在…上把人描绘成portray to描绘得到…地步
用作动词v.
portray in v.+prep.
在书、戏剧、电影或绘画中把某人描绘或刻画成 describe or show the character of (sb in a book, play, film or picture) portray sth in sthIt is still not considered proper to portray Christ in a play or film.人们仍然认为在戏剧或电影中再现基督的形象是不妥当的。近义词 draw拖play玩show证明limn描写paint油漆depict描述render提供design设计sketch速写picture照片explain说明diagram图解present礼物describe描述represent表现interpret口译enact制定法律illustrate说明impersonate模仿specify详细说明characterize表示 … 的典型…
用作动词v.
用作及物动词
S+～+ n./pron.This painting portrays the death of Nelson.这幅画描绘了纳尔逊之死。
He portrayed a character in this play.他在这个剧中扮演一个角色。
Dickins portrays his characters to the life.狄更斯描绘的人物栩栩如生。
用作宾补动词
S+～+ pron./n. +as n./pron.He portrayed himself as a champion for democracy.他把自己描绘成民主斗士。
In British history books Richard Ⅲ is usually portrayed as a wicked man.在英国历史书中,查理三世通常被描述成一个邪恶的人。
v.动词
portray的基本意思是“描述”“画像”,指通过素描、雕塑、油画或表演、文学等手段按照自己头脑中的形象塑造并呈现出现实的效果,以表现人及其个性特征、感情或品质。引申可表示“扮演”。其宾语可以是人、物,也可以是事物。 portray是及物动词,接名词或代词作宾语,也可接as短语充当补足语的复合宾语。
动词99%,名词1%
用作及物动词It is difficult toportrayfeelings in words.感情很难用言语来描写。
The bookportraysthe life of an actor.这本书描述了一个演员的一生。
The pictureportraysa beautiful sunset.这幅画描绘了落日美景。
The actor is trying his best toportraythe role of Hamlet.这位演员尽力扮演哈姆雷特的角色。
The actor shaved his head off in order toportraya bald man.为扮演一个秃头男人,演员把他自己的头发剃光了。as in.representing
同义词 characterizing,defining,delineating,depicting,describing,exhibitingillustratinginterpreting,mirroringpersonifyingpicturing,presenting,reporting,reproducing,revealing,showing,symbolizing
反义词 distorting,misrepresentation,misrepresentingas in.acting
同义词 assuming,characterization,depiction,dramaticsdramatizingenacting,enactment,feigning,hamming,histrionics,imitating,imitation,impersonation,improvisation,mime,mimicry,pantomime,performance,playing,portrayal,posing,posturing,pretending,pretense,putting,rendition,seemingsimulatingstagecraft,stooging,theatre,theatricalsplay actingshowing off
actingnoun entertaining, performing
assuming,characterization,depiction,dramaticsdramatizingenacting,enactment,feigning,hamming,histrionics,imitating,imitation,impersonation,improvisation,mime,mimicry,pantomime,performanceplay actingplaying,portrayal,posing,posturing,pretending,pretense,putting,rendition,seeming,showing offsimulatingstagecraft,stooging,theatre,theatricals
representingadjective purporting to depict
characterizing,defining,delineating,depicting,describing,exhibitingillustratinginterpreting,mirroringpersonifyingpicturing,portraying,presenting,reporting,reproducing,revealing,showing,symbolizing At the same time, advertisers are finding that Chinese women crave security, and that portraying women in advertising as fully independent may not work.
同时，广告商们发现中国女性渴望安全感，在广告里把女性描绘得完全独立并不管用。 yeeyan
Some of us have long complained about the cult of“ balance, ” the insistence on portraying both parties as equally wrong and equally at fault on any issue, never mind the facts.
我们这些人长期以来对“平衡”崇拜之说表示不满，因为这种学说不顾事实真相，一味坚持在所有问题上两党同样有错误，同样存在缺陷。 yeeyan
The peanut industry also condemned the company, portraying it as a rogue operator.
花生工业界也谴责这个公司不道德的欺诈的经营操作。 yeeyan
Batman Returns in 1992 was the first movie to use his approach, portraying a swarm of bats and an army of penguins.
1992年的“蝙蝠侠归来”是使用他的方法的第一部电影，电影中刻画了蝙蝠群与企鹅大军。 ecocn
Downplaying the financial stability function was seen as a way to enhance central bank independence by portraying monetary policy as a narrow, technical function.
通过把货币政策描绘成仅具有有限的技术性的功能，低估财政稳定的功能被视为加强央行独立性的途径。 ecocn
He can, however, push hard on financial reform, and seek to put himself back on the right side of public anger by portraying Republicans as the enemies of reform— which they are.
然而，他能够努力推进金融改革，寻求将他自己重新至于公众的一边展现对改革的敌人——共和党的愤怒。 yeeyan
He inherited his father's position in 2000, portraying himself as a reformer but failing to deliver.
2000年,他继承了他父亲的位置，本想以一个改革者的姿态出现，但未能实现。 yeeyan
He was perhaps the most sensual of all sculptors, a man whose carnal interest in his models was matched only by his genius at portraying their flesh in his works.
他也许是所有雕塑家中最好色的一个，对模特肉体的兴趣和通过作品描绘肉体的天赋齐名。 yeeyan
His creative thinking combines both art and pictures portraying two different things within the same scene.
他创造性地将艺术和图片融合在一起，在同一个场景中描绘两个不同的东西。 hjenglish
Leica’s executives often invoke the company’s long history, portraying the latest products as the heirs to over a century of research and development, starting with the monumentally titled Ur- Leica.
徕卡的总裁经常援引公司的长久历史，把最新产品看成徕卡百年研发积淀的子孙后代，极具纪念意义的原型徕卡就是这一切的发端。 yeeyan
McCain retaliated by repeatedly portraying Obama as inexperienced and unfit to be president, dismissing the Democrat as “ naive”.
作为反击，麦凯恩不断将奥巴马描绘成没有经验不适合当总统的候选人，驳斥称这名民主党候选人“幼稚”。 yeeyan
Mr Cohan handles his material deftly, portraying Bear as symptomatic of an industry that had come to believe its own hype and had lost sight of how inherently unstable it really was.
科汉先生灵巧地处理了他的素材，将贝尔作为一个有疾病症候的行业来描写，即它被自己的大肆宣传所蒙蔽，而看不到自己实际上内在地是多么地不稳固。 ecocn
Multiple orgasms and effortless pregnancies are not necessarily the stuff of reality, and portraying them as such does women a disservice.
多重高潮和毫不费力的怀孕并不是现实中所需要的东西，如此刻画这些是对女性的伤害。 yeeyan
Obama and the White House had tried to lower expectations for the gathering, saying there would be no big announcements and portraying it as just three guys having a beer.
奥巴马和白宫方面一直对这次会谈保持低调，对外宣称会议不会有重大声明，仅仅就是三人坐下来喝喝啤酒而已。 hjenglish
State television has broadcast a series of alarmist documentaries portraying Europe as a region governed by fascists and blighted by mass unemployment.
官方电视台播放了一系列耸人听闻的纪录片，把欧洲描绘成一个被法西斯主义者统治，失业问题十分严重的地方。 ecocn
The list will be long and endless since we already have these people who are making a career out of portraying the Chinese manned space program as a military program.
这个清单将很长并且永无休止的，因为我们已经掌握了那些以中国载人航天计划作为军事计划作为职业生涯的人员名单。 yeeyan
There are hundreds and even thousands of photographs made until our days portraying strange shapes floating in the sky above houses, landscapes and in airplanes' persecutions.
已经有成百甚至上千幅照片来描述那种漂浮在房子上空，风景区上空以及飞机坠毁地的奇形飞行物。 yeeyan
There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests.
市面上很多书把亚洲妈妈描绘成狡猾、冷酷、虐待孩子，对孩子真正的兴趣无动于衷。 yeeyan
They also noted that bankers displayed“ a degree of self-pity, portraying themselves as the unlucky victims of external circumstances”.
他们也注意到银行家展现出“一定程度的自怜，使他们自己扮演成受外部环境影响的不幸受害者”。 yeeyan
They know that regime propaganda is portraying them as Salafists Hama is a conservative Sunni city and armed.
于是他们才意识到阿萨德政权的宣传机构把他们归类为武装的萨拉菲斯特派哈马市是一个保守逊尼派城市。 ecocn
Portraying a sitting president may be an even harder task.
刻画一位在任总统可能是件更为困难的事。 yeeyan |