及物动词
1. Who portrayed king Lear?
谁扮演李尔王？
2. Dickens portrayed his characters to the life.
狄更斯把他笔下的人物描绘得栩栩如生。
3. Her book portrays her stepfather as a cruel man.
她的书把继父描绘成残忍的人。
4. He portrayed King Lear in the play.
他在这戏里扮演李尔王。
portray的翻译
1. 描写：[写作指导] 描写(Portray)就是用生动、形象的语言将人物、事物、景物等的特征和性质活灵活现地刻画或描绘出来,使读者如见其人、如闻其声、如临其境. 为了使人或事物的特征跃然纸上,我们往往在写文章时把叙述和描写结合起来.
2. 你可把蓝图心里：纵使别人一千遍Copy, | 你可把蓝图心里Portray, | 将爱的真谛细致Embody,
3. 画像,描绘：portentous 奇特,不祥的 | portray 画像,描绘 | proceed 继续,进行
1. 扮演；饰演
When an actor or actress portrays someone, he or she plays that person in a play or film.
e.g. In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of 'Camelot'.
他1975年在洛杉矶重新上演的剧目《卡米洛》中扮演国王。
e.g. ...the busty and rumbustious Mrs Hall, excellently portrayed by Toni Palmer.
由托妮·帕默精彩演绎的胸部丰满、吵吵嚷嚷的霍尔太太
2. 描绘；描述
When a writer or artist portrays something, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it.
e.g. ...this northern novelist, who accurately portrays provincial domestic life.
这位准确描述外省家庭生活的北方小说家
e.g. ...the landscape as portrayed by painters such as Claude and Poussin.
克劳德和普桑等画家所描绘的风景
3. 表现；刻画
If a film, book, or television programme portrays someone in a certain way, it represents them in that way.
e.g. She says the programme portrayed her as a 'lady of easy virtue'.
她说这个节目把她刻画成了一个“水性杨花的女人”。
e.g. ...complaints about the way women are portrayed in adverts.
抗议在广告中如此刻画女性
verb
1. portray in words
e.g. The book portrays the actor as a selfish person
2. make a portrait of
e.g. Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba
3. represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture
e.g. The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting
Synonym: present
4. assume or act the character of
e.g. She impersonates Madonna
The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man
Synonym: impersonate