Portray
[pɔː'treɪ] or [pɔr'tre]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) portray in words; 'The book portrays the actor as a selfish person'.
(verb.) make a portrait of; 'Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba'.
(verb.) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture; 'The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting'.
格斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
(v. t.) Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
(v. t.) To adorn with pictures.
安琪莉可錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Paint, delineate, depict, draw, sketch, represent.[2]. Describe, set forth.
克拉丽莎校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Draw, delineate, represent, depict, describe, sketch, paint
ANT:Misrepresent, caricature, misportray
整理:莱斯利
例句/造句/用法:
- A chanting cherub adorned the cover of the sugar bucket, and attempts to portray Romeo and Juliet supplied kindling for some time. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Pericles was portrayed in a helmet; a helmet became him, and it is to be feared he knew as much. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His books had portrayed the NEGRO, but how different had been the dull, dead print to this sleek thing of ebony, pulsing with life. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- In 1844 Thomas Hood wrote and published his famous Song of the Shirt, in which the drudgery of the needle is portrayed with pathetic fidelity. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
伯特伦編輯