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[VERB 动词]描述；描写；形容；叙述 If you
describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.
We asked her to describe what kind of things she did in her spare time...
我们请她描述一下她业余时间都在做什么。
She broke down describing how she was arrested for refusing a breath test...
她在叙述自己如何因为拒绝接受呼吸测试而被捕时再也控制不住情绪。
She read a poem by Carver which describes their life together...
她读了一首卡弗描写他们共同生活的诗。
The myth of Narcissus is described in Ovid's work...
有关那喀索斯的神话故事在奥维德的作品中有过描述。
Just before his death he described seeing their son in a beautiful garden.
就在临终前他说看到他们的儿子在一个美丽的花园里。
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[VERB 动词]把…说成；把…称为；认为 If a person
describes someone or something
as a particular thing, he or she believes that they are that thing and says so.
[V n as n]
[V n as adj]
[V n as -ing]
He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale...
他说那是一个非常曲折复杂的故事。
Eriksson described him as 'the best player on the pitch'...
埃里克森称他是“场上最好的球员”。
Andrew describes her as a large, bony and masculine woman...
安德鲁说她是一个瘦骨嶙峋、男人模样的大块头女人。
Even his closest allies describe him as forceful, aggressive and determined...
即使他最亲密的盟友也认为他强硬决断、咄咄逼人，不达目的誓不罢休。
He described the meeting as marking a new stage in the peace process.
他称这次会议标志着和平进程进入了一个新阶段。
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[VERB 动词]描画，画出(图形)；形成…的形状 If something
describes a particular shape, it forms that shape or makes a movement that follows the line of that shape.
[V n]
[no passive]
[FORMAL 正式]
Usage Note :
When you use describe with an indirect object, you must put to in front of the indirect object. He later described to me what he had found... Could you describe the man to the police? You do not say, for example, 'He described me what he had found'.
describe 接间接宾语时，间接宾语前必须加 to：He later described to me what he had found (他后来向我描述了他所发现的东西)，Could you describe the man to the police (你能向警察形容一下那人的模样吗)。不要说 He described me what he had found。