to portray

基本解釋

Such comics tend to portray a noirish and Kafkaesque version of the modern world.
這些漫畫都有意描繪一個帶有卡夫卡色彩的現(xiàn)代世界。
Those who lit the fire, in other words, have the nerve to portray themselves as the firefighters.
換句話說那些點(diǎn)火的人，竟有臉去把自己描繪成消防隊(duì)員。
In those moments, children are the characters they wish to portray.
那時，孩子們成為他們想要扮演的角色。

In a telephone interview, he described the communiqus as a desperate measure used occasionally by the rebels to portray the region as being in turmoil.
And to the extent these portray an unrealistic or unfair or biased perception of the world we could construct stereotypes that are faithful to the data we're getting but the data is not representative.
因?yàn)槊襟w,沒有真實(shí)，公平，不偏不倚地反映世界,我們的刻板印象,就會根據(jù)這些信息來形成,但這些信息并不能以一概全。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
So why, according to scholars like Sarna, would a biblical author from that period portray the Arameans as close kin, unless they had some older tradition, established tradition that reflected that fact?
因此根據(jù)Sarna一派的學(xué)者，為什么那段時期的圣經(jīng)作者,會把亞蘭人描繪成至親呢，除非是他們有相同的古老傳統(tǒng),通過樹立傳統(tǒng)來反映現(xiàn)實(shí)嗎？
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Chapters are anchored in first person experiences sketched out to portray the challenges of fighting poverty.
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