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VERB
扮演；飾演
When an actor or actress portrays someone, he or she plays that person in a play or film.
例句
In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of 'Camelot'.
他1975年在洛杉磯重新上演的劇目《卡米洛》中扮演國王。
...the busty and rumbustious Mrs Hall, excellently portrayed by Toni Palmer.
由托妮·帕默精彩演繹的胸部豐滿、吵吵嚷嚷的霍爾太太
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VERB
描繪；描述
When a writer or artist portrays something, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it.
例句
...this northern novelist, who accurately portrays provincial domestic life.
這位準確描述外省家庭生活的北方小說家
...the landscape as portrayed by painters such as Claude and Poussin.
克勞德和普桑等畫家所描繪的風景
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VERB
表現；刻畫
If a film, book, or television programme portrays someone in a certain way, it represents them in that way.
例句
She says the programme portrayed her as a 'lady of easy virtue'.
她說這個節目把她刻畫成了一個“水性楊花的女人”。
...complaints about the way women are portrayed in adverts.
抗議在廣告中如此刻畫女性