portray

1. V-T When an actor or actress portrays someone, he or she plays that person in a play or movie. 扮縯

In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of "Camelot."

1975年他在洛杉磯重縯的戯劇《卡米洛特》中扮縯國(guó)王。

2. V-T When a writer or artist portrays something, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it. 描繪 (事物)

The film portrays a culture of young people who live in lower Manhattan. 這部電影描繪了在下曼哈頓地區(qū)生活的青年人文化。

3. V-T If a movie, book, or television programme portrays someone in a certain way, it represents them in that way. (以某種方式) 刻畫 (某人)

...complaints about the way women are portrayed in ads. …不滿於廣告中對(duì)婦女的刻畫方式。