英语单词 | descriptive |
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英美音标 | 英 [dɪ'skrɪptɪv] 美 [dɪ'skrɪptɪv] |
中文释义 | adj.描述的;叙述的 |
英语例句 | (1) The passage is purely descriptive. (2) He told a very descriptive account of his journey. (3) The report was so descriptive that I understood exactly. |
中文例句 | (1) 这段文章完全是描述性的。 (2) 他对旅行作了十分生动的叙述。 (3) 这报道写得非常生动,我完全了解了。 |
vocabulary简明 | Descriptive language is vivid and specific, and helps someone imagine a scene he didn't witness. You probably hope that your friend who works at the morgue isn't too descriptive when you ask him how his day was. |
vocabulary扩展 | The word descriptive comes from the Latin descript-, meaning "written down." Something that is descriptive uses an account of words to give us a sense of what it's like. We usually use descriptive when people are very effective at conveying something. James Agee is an author who excels at descriptive writing, spending pages and pages beautifully describing the scene of a poor cabin in the moonlight. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]描述的;描写的;叙述的;说明的 Descriptive language or writing indicates what someone or something is like.
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