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Latin Describe Verb English Scribe French 569.Describe 英

正面 569.describe
英 [dɪ'skraɪb]美 [dɪ'skraɪb]

背面
释义:
vt. 描述,形容;描绘
例句:
1. Globalisation is a catch-all to describe increased international trade.“全球化”是个泛称,用以描述增进了的国际贸易。

1、pict- + -ure.
describe 描述de-, 向下。-scribe, 写,词源同scribe, conscript.
describedescribe: [15] To describe something is literally to ‘write it down’. The word comes from Latin dēscrībere, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘down’ and scrībere ‘write’ (source of English scribe, script, etc). English originally borrowed it via Old French descrivre in the 13th century as descrive, in which the metaphorical sense ‘give an account of’ had already developed, and this was grafted on to the Latin verb when it was reborrowed directly in the 15th century. The derivative nondescript was coined (originally as a term in biological classification) in the 17th century.=> ascribe, scribe, scriptdescribe (v.)early 13c., descriven, from Old French descrivre, descrire (13c.), from Latin describere "to write down, copy; sketch, represent" (see description). Reconstructed with Latin spelling 16c. Related: Describable; described, describes, describing."

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