Descend
[dɪ'send] or [dɪ'sɛnd]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; 'The temperature is going down'; 'The barometer is falling'; 'The curtain fell on the diva'; 'Her hand went up and then fell again'.
安吉拉校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.
(v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.
(v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
(v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
(v. i.) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
(v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
(v. i.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
(v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
(v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
錄入:万斯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Fall, sink, drop, go down, come down.[2]. Dismount, alight, get down.[3]. Go, pass, proceed, be transferred.[4]. Originate, be derived, take rise.[5]. Make an attack, make an assault.
v. a. Go down, move down.
手打:洛葛仙妮
同義詞及反義詞:
[See ASCEND]
編輯:梅根
解釋/意思:
v.i. to climb down: to pass from a higher to a lower place or condition: to pass from general to particulars: to fall upon or invade: to be derived.—v.t. to go down upon: to go to the bottom of.—n. Descend′ant one who descends as offspring from an ancestor.—adjs. Descend′ent descending or going down: proceeding from an ancestor; Descend′ible that may descend or be descended: capable of transmission by inheritance heritable.—p.adj. Descend′ing.—n. Descen′sion.—adj. Descen′sional.—n. Descent′ act of descending: transmission by succession: motion or progress downward: slope: a falling upon or invasion: derivation from an ancestor: a generation a degree in genealogy: descendants collectively.—Descent from the cross a picture representing Christ being taken down from the cross.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Not wanting to go through the yard, because of the dogs, she turned off along the hill-side to descend on the pond from above. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Let, thenthe rains fall, and the floods descend--only I must first get rid of this basket of fruit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- This will be a blessing whose influence will descend not only on the other citizens, but on your best friends and yourself. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Both he and his company would often descend to ask me questions, and receive my answers. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- In effect, I am of no country,' said Mr Blandois, stretching out his leg and smiting it: 'I descend from half-a-dozen countries. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- That the power, and consequently the security of the monarchy, may not be weakened by division, it must descend entire to one of the children. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The oak staircase creaks somewhat as I descend, but not much:--I am in the carré. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They descended into the passage, and thence into the cellars below. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- At two o'clock I descended again to the breakfast-room, a little anxiously. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- A footman opened the door, and a small, stout man in a shaggy astrakhan overcoat descended. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The haggard head floated up the dark staircase, and softly descended nearer to the floor outside the outer door of the chambers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- They descended to breakfast. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- As I was descending the grand staircase in a very ill-humour, a well-known voice, from a little dark passage, called me by my name. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- As soon as you have finished getting the apples, her aunt said, descending the ladder, come down, and we'll go for the holly. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Ursula, her heart strained with anxiety, was watching the hill beyond; the white, descending road, that should give sight of him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of thirty-five or thirty-six feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- At least, said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending the stairs, she seems to be a young lady who is very well able to take care of herself. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Again descending, it brought up another loop, enchained it with the one last made, making a chain stitch, consisting of a series of loops on the upper side. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Holmes took the bag, and, descending into the hollow, he pushed the matting into a more central position. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- When the air descends with a violence in some places, it may rise with equal violence in others, and form both kinds of whirlwinds. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The non-magnetic gangue descends in a straight line to the other side of the partition. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- While the rain descends so, must I lay my head on the cold, drenched ground? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- This mixture descends by gravity, and gradually fills the entire space between the two sets of molds. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The palm of Silas Wegg descends with a sounding smack upon the palm of Venus, and Wegg lavishly exclaims, 'Twin in opinion equally with feeling! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- We will not perish unrevenged--and mighty will our avenger be, when he descends in visible majesty, and scatters destruction among you. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The shade is so arranged, that in raising the end to cover the lens of one lantern, the farther end descends, and exposes, in an equal degree, the other lens. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
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