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Describe Verb 英[Dɪˈskraɪb 美[Dɪˈskraɪb Vt.描写,形容;叙述;描绘,作图;(行星等)周转 描述;描写;形容;叙述 Person Object

单词 describe
音标
英[dɪˈskraɪb] 美[dɪˈskraɪb]
解释
vt.描写,形容;叙述;描绘,作图;(行星等)周转;
例句

VERB
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.
例: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。
例: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。

VERB
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.
例: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。
例:Eriksson described him as 'the best player on the pitch'...埃里克森称他是“场上最好的球员”。

VERB
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.
例:His pass described a perfect arc through the leaden sky.他的传球在阴沉的天空中划出了一道完美的弧线。
变形
third:describes~done:described~adj:describable~ing:describing~past:described~

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