| 单词 | portrayal |
| 释义 | portrayal (once / 3861 pages) n If you like the way an actor played the role of Abraham Lincoln, you might praise his portrayal of the sixteenth president. Use the noun portrayal to describe the representation of someone, either in the form of a dramatic character, a spoken description, or even a photograph or painting of the person. You can also talk about the portrayal of an object or idea: "Dorothea Lange's photographs are an accurate portrayal of the Great Depression." The Old French word portraire, "to draw or trace," is the root of portrayal. WORD FAMILYportrayal: portrayals+/portraitist: portraitists/portraiture: portraitures/portray: portraitist, portraiture, portrayal, portrayed, portrayer, portraying, portrays/portrayer: portrayers/portraying: portrayings USAGE EXAMPLESFairchild’s emotional horror show of a portrayal was one of the year’s strongest. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) It’s not a heartless portrayal, but it’s an ambivalent one. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Lithgow’s portrayal of that particular lion in winter began with his spring. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1n any likeness of a person, in any medium Syn|Hypo|Hyper portrait half-length a portrait showing the body from only the waist up self-portraita portrait of yourself created by yourself likeness, semblance picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing 2n a word picture of a person's appearance and character Syn|Hyper portrait, portraiture characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word picture, word-painting a graphic or vivid verbal description 3n acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture Syn|Hypo|Hyper characterisation, characterization, enactment, personation impression an impressionistic portrayal of a person character, part, persona, role, theatrical rolean actor's portrayal of someone in a play bit part, minor rolea small role heavya serious (or tragic) role in a play herothe principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem ingenuethe role of an innocent artless young woman in a play name part, title rolethe role of the character after whom the play is named heroinethe main good female character in a work of fiction baddie, villainthe principal bad character in a film or work of fiction acting, performing, playacting, playing the performance of a part or role in a drama 4n a representation by picture or portraiture Syn|Hypo|Hyper depicting, depiction, portraying mirror a faithful depiction or reflection representational process any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else 5n representation by drawing or painting etc Syn|Hypo|Hyper delineation, depiction portraiture the activity of making portraits pictorial representation, picturing visual representation as by photography or painting |
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