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    describe查询结果如下:

    音标:[dɪ'skraɪb] 现在分词:describing
    过去式:described 过去分词:described
    第三人称单数:describes 词频:高频常用词
    基本释义/说明:vt.描述;形容
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    vt.
    ①描写(人物等);描述(战况等);
    describe a scene
    描绘情景.
    Words cannot describe the beauty of the scene.
    此景之美非笔墨所能形容.
    Please describe what you saw.
    请把你的见闻描述一下.
    Can you describe it to (for) me?
    你能把它描述给我听吗?
    Nothing can describe his folly.
    他的愚笨是描述不出来的.
    ②画,作图;
    describe a triangle
    作三角形.
    describe a circle within a square
    在一个正方形中画一个圈.
    The falling star described a long curve in the sky.
    那落星在天空中画了一个长弧.
    -扩展释义
    vt.
    1. 描写,描绘,叙述[+wh-]2. 形容,把...说成[(+as)]3. 画(图形);形成...的形状
    n. 【化学】
    叙述,描绘;叙述,作图,作...运动
    -同义词和反义词
    -describe的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    Descriptivist. || (philosophy) Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a particular thing or kind of thing.
    “Much of the disagreement between the prescriptionist and descriptionist views turns on the question of compensation among generations.”
    Of or relating to description. || (grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary). || (语言学) Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language. || (philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
    “This is a handbook, with many tables and lengthy descriptive passages.”
    “Mr. Allaire provides a very graphic and descriptive portrayal of the type of smells he experienced on all deployments.”
    Capable of being described.
    “His service in the Senate, while not describable as stellar, has featured some important moments of gravity and responsibility.”
    “There is more acoustic instrumentation on this album, but that’s not to say that the songs are any more conventional or, indeed, describable.”
    “I quote them because of their effect in lashing Beresford to a passion only describable as insane.”
    Without a description.
    Of, pertaining to, or using description.

    名词 变体/同根词

    The quality of being describable.
    The quality of being describable.
    A person who describes. || (taxonomy) A person who scientifically describes a new taxon.
    “Monologues are a true storytelling artform, as in actual storytelling around the campfire, and Neil seems to be more of a teller than a describer.”
    “Not a describer nor a ruler nor a mingler and yet there is not a difference that is not greater.”
    “Walter is an appreciator and a describer, not an advocate and a decrier.”
    The characteristic of being descriptive.
    “Partly due to its descriptiveness, to its piecing together of unconnected pictorial threads, the poetry becomes suspended outside time.”
    “The teachers read them and would award extra marks for descriptiveness, inventiveness and illustration.”
    “The secondary classification softens the hierarchy and increases descriptiveness by allowing another relevant condition to be coded.”
    The quality or state of being descriptive.

    动词 变体/同根词

    describe的(已不通用)第三人称单数形式
    describe的第三人称单数形式
    “Penelope describes what this means and the agony and pleasure of streams of jabberwocky issuing forth from a man of words.”
    “In the midst of luxury, abundance, and indeed waste, what can be our proper response when confronted with the poverty Kapuscinski describes?”
    “The endosymbiotic theory describes how a large host cell and ingested bacteria could easily become dependent on one another for survival.”
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