portray
portray 英 [pɔ:ˈtreɪ] 美 [pɔrˈtreɪ]
vt. 描绘；扮演
进行时:portraying 过去式:portrayed 过去分词:portrayed 第三人称单数:portrays
- When you paint a picture of someone, either in words or in paint, you portray them. Actors portray characters too.
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- vt. 描绘；扮演
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1. Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim.
在审讯过程中，他始终把自己说成是受害者。
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2. Her father will be portrayed by Sean Connery.
肖恩 · 康纳利将饰演她的父亲。
- portray (v.) mid-13c., "to draw, paint" (something), from Anglo-French purtraire, Old French portraire "to draw, to paint, portray" (12c.), literally "trace, draw forth," from por- "forth" (from Latin pro-; see pro-) + traire "trace, draw," from Latin trahere "to drag, draw" (see tract (n.1)). Meaning "depict in words, describe" is from late 14c. Related: Portrayed; portraying.
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