"portray" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

portray verbo

portray + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 61
portray a David Bailey • portray people • portray the character • portray a woman • portray the role • ...
verbo + portray
Kolokacji: 8
seek to portray • try to portray • want to portray • used to portray • begin portraying • ...
portray + preposición
Kolokacji: 26
portrayed by • portray in • portray on • portray with • portray to • ...
portray + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 48
accurately portray • frequently portrayed • originally portrayed • generally portrayed • later portray • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(2) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(3) originally, initially
Kolokacji: 2
(5) commonly, normally
Kolokacji: 2
(7) unfairly, wrongly, correctly
Kolokacji: 3
1. unfairly portrayed = niesprawiedliwie przedstawić unfairly portrayed
2. wrongly portrayed = źle przedstawić wrongly portrayed
3. correctly portrayed = poprawnie przedstawić correctly portrayed
  • Assuming a spherical mirror, the distortion has been correctly portrayed, except for the leftmost part of the window frame, the near edge of the table and the hem of the dress.
  • His role was to provide advice and ensure that Maori culture was correctly portrayed when Tourism New Zealand marketed New Zealand as an international visitor destination.
  • The schematic ahead of them showed a wire-thin cylinder; the thickness was not remotely to scale, but the length was correctly portrayed, stretching more than ten times wider than Pluto's orbit.
  • In his book The Strong-Willed Child, Dobson suggests that if authority is portrayed correctly to a child, the child will understand how to interact with other authority figures:
  • Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated.
  • And 'believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated'.
  • "What the evidence at trial has correctly portrayed, is that it's really a loose amalgam of people with a shared ideology, but a very limited direction."
  • "I would not call this revisionist history," Mr. Schwartz said, "since the essence of the event is portrayed correctly."
  • Accurate 8.41 Accuracy requires that the evidence presented be true and that findings be correctly portrayed.
  • Though Worth is correctly portrayed as a criminal mastermind, the events of the story are not based on true events.
(10) clearly, explicitly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) famously, brilliantly
Kolokacji: 2

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