to portray

基本解释

Such comics tend to portray a noirish and Kafkaesque version of the modern world.
这些漫画都有意描绘一个带有卡夫卡色彩的现代世界。
Those who lit the fire, in other words, have the nerve to portray themselves as the firefighters.
换句话说那些点火的人，竟有脸去把自己描绘成消防队员。
In those moments, children are the characters they wish to portray.
那时，孩子们成为他们想要扮演的角色。

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.
因为媒体,没有真实，公平，不偏不倚地反映世界,我们的刻板印象,就会根据这些信息来形成,但这些信息并不能以一概全。
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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?
因此根据Sarna一派的学者，为什么那段时期的圣经作者,会把亚兰人描绘成至亲呢，除非是他们有相同的古老传统,通过树立传统来反映现实吗？
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Chapters are anchored in first person experiences sketched out to portray the challenges of fighting poverty.
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