| 单词 | describe |
| 释义 | de·scribe 1. a. < unable to find words to describe the mountain scene > < in 1886 a Boston surgeon … described the condition now called appendicitis — Morris Fishbein > specifically < describing a football game to an unseeing audience > b. < the unique character of the artistic quality of a work … cannot be defined or even described — T.M.Greene > < there were so many things he wanted to describe — James Joyce > < like Mark Twain he exhibits rather than describes his characters: their speech is a portrait — Marvin Lowenthal > c. < had traveled in the principal countries of the world and described what it was like to live in a police state — Victor Boesen > < describe the life of the past from the various scraps of the fossil forms — W.E.Swinton > d. < few doctors would describe themselves as scientists > < the State is often rightly described as a machine: its total effect is inhuman — Herbert Read > e. < we have indicated that jealousy describes a state of tension among various interests of the personality — Abram Kardiner > < while the natural sciences grow more modest in admitting that their laws describe only probabilities — Reinhold Niebuhr > 2. obsolete 3. < and when the curves thus brilliantly drawn describe vividly some object in life toward which we have pleasing associations we get a complex pleasure — Roger Fry > 4. < each planet describes an ellipse with the sun in one focus — S.F.Mason > < while he described a big smooth arc with the muleta — Barnaby Conrad > < butted amidships he described a somersault backward > 5. obsolete < ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts — Josh 18:6 (Authorized Version) > 6. archaic Synonyms: see relate |
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