portrait/ˋpɔrtrIt; ˈpɔːtrət or ˈpɔːtrIt/n [C] 1 a painting, drawing, or photograph of a person 画像﹔肖像﹔人像照片: +of a portrait of a young woman 一个年轻女子的肖像 see box at 见 PICTURE1 方框see picture at见 PAINTING 图2 a description of someone or something in a book, film etc〔书﹑电影等中对人或事的〕描绘﹐描述: +of The novel is a portrait of life in Harlem in the 1940s. 这部小说是对 20 世纪 40 年代哈莱姆区的生活写照。