portray · verb
Bedeutungen und Beispiele
Jemanden oder etwas in Texten, Bildern oder einer Darstellung wiedergeben oder beschreiben.
The film portrays the village as a divided community rather than an idealised place untouched by change.
She felt that the article had portrayed her concerns as personal complaints instead of practical objections.
The exhibition portrays everyday work through objects that rarely appear in formal accounts of the period.
By portraying both partners sympathetically, the novelist makes their eventual separation more difficult to judge.
Formen
- portray base form
- portrays third-person singular present
- portrayed past tense; past participle
- portraying present participle