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portrayal

/pawr-trey-uhl, pohr-/US // pɔrˈtreɪ əl, poʊr- //

描写,描写方式,描写的内容,形象描述

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of portraying.
    • : a portrait.

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Examples

  • Other stories, such as “Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain,” further illustrate Evans’s considerable range, particularly for original, affecting portrayals of grief and intimacy.

  • As it turns out, the portrayal is accurate — and part of the reason for Bowden’s generosity was that he nearly took the coaching job at Marshall, and very well might have been on that plane.

  • Since the tweets contest the normative portrayals of same-sex relations, they also constitute activist representations.

  • That contradicts its fans portrayal of Big Tech as a matchless growth machine.

  • She was loved by her legions of fans for her indelible portrayal of Princess Leia in the “Stars Wars” franchise and other performances — from Marie in “When Harry Met Sally,” to her cameo in a “Sex and the City” episode.

  • In 1987, The Deer Hunter was hailed at the Moscow Film Festival as an important portrayal of the horrors of war.

  • But everything about the Hughes-Eldridge pairing militated against such a portrayal.

  • The police themselves do little to dispel or discourage this lionized portrayal.

  • The novel is a near perfect portrayal of the emotions of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood.

  • Others have found its portrayal of Southern life offensive, exploitative, or inaccurate.

  • Liszt, from whose book some of the above details are derived, completes his portrayal of Chopin by some characteristic touches.

  • The most complete literary portrayal of George Sand that has been handed down to us, however, is by Heine.

  • I know I have given a rose-colored account of him, yet some shadow belongs to the portrayal.

  • The other characters are all well drawn, and the play is an excellent portrayal of domestic life of seventy-five years ago.

  • It gave Mark Twain a chance to exercise two of his chief gifts—transcription and portrayal.