英语词汇“descend”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	descend
释义	de·scend \də̇ˈsend, dēˈ-\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English descenden, from Old French descendre, from Latin descendere, from de- + -scendere (from scandere to climb) — more at scan *intransitive verb* 1. : to go or come down: a. : to pass from a higher place or spatial level to a lower one : move downward < these fish winter up the river … and descend to the sea … in the spring — Biological Abstracts > < the river descends 18 feet in one mile > < the paper descends from one roller onto another > b. : to appear or enter from above or from a spiritual realm < to her it seemed that a god had descended from the blue sky personally to aid her — Charles Beadle > < he felt a great being descending into him and strengthening him — W.B.Yeats > specifically : to settle down like a blanket or curtain < the sound that irresistibly you make when death is about to descend — F.M.Ford > c. archaic : to withdraw or retreat from social intercourse and seclude oneself in personal or mental absorption d. of the testes of a mammal : to pass from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum 2. : to pass in discussion from what in logical order precedes or from what is the more comprehensive or universal < ascend to causes, descend to consequences > < the writer descends from the general to the particular — Times Literary Supplement > 3. a. : to come down or spring from a stock or source : originate, derive < the family descended from Scotch-Irish immigrants who came to America in the 18th century > < historians report that he descended from an ancient family of noble lineage > b. : to pass by inheritance < that kingship was divinely ordained to descend according to strict hereditary principles — J.H.Plumb > < heirlooms which have descended in families since the original Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants arrived — V.R.Tortora > c. : to pass by transmission : take origin or pattern or acquire character from a precursor < songs descended from early ballads > < if, as some scholars believe, Greek liturgical music descends from the hymns to the Olympian gods — New York Times > 4. : to incline, lead, or extend downward : form or follow a downgrade < the coastal mountains descended precipitously to the very edge of the Pacific — R.A.Billington > < the road descends to the flatland > 5. a. : to swoop or pounce down or make a sudden attack — usually used with on or upon < the plague descended upon them > < if the enemy descended on his country > b. : to converge or materialize as if from above with disconcerting abruptness or in formidable array — used with on or upon < one evening the police descended quietly, without warning, on a dozen or so drive-in taverns — Green Peyton > < over a hundred newspaper reporters from all over America descended upon this amazed little southern town to cover the trial — R.W.Murray > also : to make a startling or exciting visitation < the most famous visitors, licit or otherwise, to descend on the island — Horace Sutton > c. : to pour down or in with beneficient effect — used with on or upon < then fame and royalties descended upon him — E.A.Weeks > 6. : to proceed in a sequence or gradation from higher to lower or from more remote to nearer or more recent < this list is arranged in descending order of the reliability of the information — R.N.Denney > < we shall expect to find the curves of art and spiritual fervor ascending and descending together — Clive Bell > 7. a. : to sink in status or dignity : demean or degrade oneself by indulgence in pettiness or unworthy behavior : stoop < ashamed of myself for having descended to a kind of wheedling — Kenneth Roberts > < his successor, after failing to dominate, descended to reckless abuse — Raymond Moley > b. : to worsen and sink in condition or estimation : become degraded : degenerate < the family descended from comparative prosperity to poverty > < her autobiography descends to a dragging pedestrianism > < his attacks descend to a level almost indistinguishable from personal character assassination — Martin Gardner > c. : to pass from higher to lower musical notes or tones *transitive verb* 1. obsolete : to cause to descend : bring down < power to raise some and descend others > 2. a. : to pass, move, or climb down or down along < descended the steps with senile deliberation — Arnold Bennett > b. : to journey downstream along (a stream) or toward the foot of (a lake) 3. : to extend down along < a raw scar descends the side of the mountain showing the course of a slide > < vertical tucks descending the bodice — Lois Long > Synonyms: dismount, alight: these have in common a sense of getting or coming down from a height. One descends when one goes or climbs down a slope or incline, as of a mountain, hill, ladder, stair, tree, and so on. One dismounts by getting off (the back of a horse or other ridable animal, a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle). One alights when one dismounts with a certain springing lightness or grace or when one gets down from a carriage, gets out of a car or off a plane.
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