portrait

英 ['p??tr?t] 美['p?rtr?t]

CET4TEM4考研TOEFLCET6中頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?portraits;

1、a back formation from portraiture.
2、portraiture => portrait.

portrait 肖像，描繪

來自中古法語portrait,肖像，描繪，來自古法語portraire,描繪，描畫，-t,過去分詞格，詞源同portray.

portrait: portrait: [16] Portrait was borrowed from French portrait, which originated as the past participle of the verb portraire ‘depict’ (source of English portray [14]). This was descended from Latin prōtrahere, a compound verb formed from the prefix prō- ‘forth’ and trahere ‘draw’ (source of English tractor). This originally meant ‘draw out, reveal’, and also ‘lengthen’ (it has given English protract [16]), but in medieval Latin it came to be used for ‘depict’.
=> portray, protract, tractor
portrait (n.): 1560s, "a figure, drawn or painted," a back formation from portraiture or directly from Middle French portrait, from Old French portret (13c.), noun use of past participle of portraire "to paint, depict" (see portray). Especially of the head and face of a person.

1. Today his picture goes on show at the National Portrait Gallery.: 今天他的畫作在國家肖像美術館展出。

2. He gives us a portrait of the real Gandhi, warts and all.: 他向我們描繪了真正的甘地，包括他的不足。

3. "Elizabeth R", a TV portrait of the Queen, had record viewing figures.: 關于女王的電視專題片《伊麗莎白女王》創下了收視紀錄。

4. Lucian Freud has been asked to paint a portrait of the Queen.: 盧西恩·弗洛伊德已受邀為女王畫肖像畫。