单词
portray
读音
pɔːrˈtreɪ
美式
英式
词根
"portray"这个词来自于拉丁文的 "protrahere"，其中 "pro-" 是词根，意为“向前”；"-trahere" 表示“拉，拖”。
释义
vt. 描绘；扮演
例句
He has worked hard in recent months to portray New York in a better light.
最近几个月他一直努力工作要从一个更好的角度描绘纽约。
Though advocates portray grass-fed products as a win-win situation for all, they do have downsides.
尽管支持者将草饲产品描绘成对所有人都有利的双赢局面，但这些产品也有缺点。
Why does cartoonist Mike Luckovich portray groundhog Phil confessing in front of reporters that he accepted money from the White House?
漫画家麦克·卢科维奇为什么在画中描绘土拨鼠菲尔在记者面前承认自己收受了白宫的钱呢？
He has worked hard in recent months to portray New York in a better light.
最近几个月他一直努力工作要从一个更好的角度描绘纽约。
Though advocates portray grass-fed products as a win-win situation for all, they do have downsides.
尽管支持者将草饲产品描绘成对所有人都有利的双赢局面，但这些产品也有缺点。
Why does cartoonist Mike Luckovich portray groundhog Phil confessing in front of reporters that he accepted money from the White House?
漫画家麦克·卢科维奇为什么在画中描绘土拨鼠菲尔在记者面前承认自己收受了白宫的钱呢？
强化记忆
"portray"可以联想到画家用画笔（portray - port 划船，如同画笔，ray 像射线一样，笔直的线条）描绘事物的场景，帮助记忆这个单词的含义。"portray"最初源自14世纪的法语 "portraire"，意为"准备，制备，描绘"。在英语中，"portray"最初的含义更偏向于"描写，刻画"，随后发展为用于形容通过文字、电影、戏剧、音乐等各种媒介来展现或阐述某一主题或者角色。
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I don't like the way some of youportray Africa.Not all of you, just some of you.
no matter whether they appearto portray tortoisesor cougars
who suffer with severe mental illness.Portray them sympathetically,and portray them in all the richness and depth
with her obligationto portray events accurately,navigating issues like Alexios’s
But in conjuring his life, it was okayand very straightforward to portraya Caribbean life in England in the 1970s
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