| 正面 | 4038.descend 英 [dɪ'send]美 [dɪ'sɛnd]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. descend from your father.vi. 下降；下去；下来；遗传；屈尊vt. 下去；沿…向下 例句： 1. She's got too much dignity to descend to writing anonymous letters.她是个自尊心很强的人，绝不会自贬身份去写匿名信。 descend 下降de-, 向下。-scend, 爬，上升，词源同ascend, scan.即爬下，下降。 descenddescend: [13] Etymologically, descend means ‘climb down’. Like its opposite, ascend [14], it comes ultimately from Latin scandere ‘climb’, which also produced English scan and scansion and is related to echelon, escalate, scale ‘set of graduated marks’, scandal, and slander. The Latin verb was a product of the Indo-European base *skand- ‘jump’.=> ascend, echelon, escalate, scale, scan, scandal, slanderdescend (v.)c. 1300, from Old French descendre (10c.) "descend, dismount; fall into; originate in," from Latin descendere "come down, descend, sink," from de- "down" (see de-) + scandere "to climb," from PIE root *skand- "jump" (see scan (v.)). Sense of "originate" is late 14c. in English. Related: Descended; descending." |