portray

portray

英 [pɔː'treɪ]
　　美 [pɔr'tre]

vt. 描繪；扮演

v.(動詞)portray的基本意思是“描述”“畫像”,指通過素描、雕塑、油畫或表演、文學等手段按照自己頭腦中的形象塑造並呈現出現實的效果,以表現人及其個性特征、感情或品質。引申可表示“扮演”。其賓語可以是人、物,也可以是事物。portray是及物動詞,接名詞或代詞作賓語,也可接as短語充當補足語的復合賓語。

中文詞源：

portray 描繪，描畫

來自古法語portraire,描繪，描畫，來自por-,向前，traire,拉，來自拉丁語trahere,拉，詞源同draw,drawing,tract.字面意思即向前拉，延展，引申詞義描繪，描畫等。拼寫可能受tray影響俗化。

例句：

1. He has worked hard in recent months to portray New York in a better light.
最近幾個月裡他努力從更積極的角度來描繪紐約。

2. That's what we tried to portray in the book, this feeling of opulence and grandeur.
那就是我們在書中竭力描繪的——一種富麗堂皇的氣派。

3. It is still not considered proper to portray Christ in a play or film.
人們仍然認為在戲劇或電影中再現基督的形象是不妥當的.

4. It would be wrong to portray his life as a calculated ascent to power at any cost.
如果把他的一生描述成不惜任何代價一心想向上爬，那就錯瞭。

5. Now, as for the Democrats, they've been able to use this issue quite effectively to portray the president as insensitive.
然而，對民主黨人來說，他們成功利用瞭這個問題來渲染總統的麻木不仁。