Describe
[dɪ'skraɪb]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.
(v. t.) To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.
(v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
(v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
手打:列侬
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Delineate, trace, draw, mark out.[2]. Represent (by words), portray, depict, explain, recount, narrate, relate, give an account of, set forth.[3]. Characterize, specify the peculiarities of, set forth the character of.
艾伦整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Draw, delineate, portray, explain, illustrate, define, picture, depict,represent, relate, narrate, recount
ANT:Confound, confuse, mystify, misrepresent, caricature, distort
拜伦整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to trace out or delineate: to give an account of.—adj. Describ′able.—n. Describ′er.
手打:洛雷塔
例句/造句/用法:
- Describe your father as a horsebreaker. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Undoubtedly, he said, the form of government which you describe is a mixture of good and evil. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- You describe three-fourths of the world, Caroline. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I wish I could describe in words the compassion I felt for this miserable and misguided girl. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- How can I describe my sensations on beholding it? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- He had only to describe himself as a seven months' child. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Enough then of the perfect State, and of the man who bears its image--there is no difficulty in seeing how we shall describe him. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He described her ladyship as willing to acknowledge that she had spoken over-hastily. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The electrical features of the 1882 locomotive were very similar to those of the earlier one, already described. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He had invented, he informed us, a new mixture to moisten paint with, which he described as a vehicle. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- A highly characteristic event at the age of six is described by his sister. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He said that he would return my letter if I would bring him a certain document which he described in my husband's despatch-box. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Mr. Snagsby describes over and over again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- No word describes it so felicitously as that one. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Nearly every book concerning Galilee and its lake describes the scenery as beautiful. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It describes a sensation in your little nose associated with certain finicking notions which are the classics of Mrs. Lemon's school. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- On the Friday night, as Betteredge truly describes it, she had found me alone at the billiard-table. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Palladius, four centuries later, describes the same sort of machine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I have describes enough of my early life to give an impression of the whole. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The really excellent gymnastic is twin sister of that simple music which we were just now describing. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And it shall be well with us both in this life and in the pilgrimage of a thousand years which we have been describing. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He is describing, with a certain subdued enthusiasm, the probable technical developments of military method in the next war. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- An eloquent catalogue appeared in a weekly print, describing his virtues, his magnificence, his talents, and his good actions. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He sent a model of this to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers at Birmingham, of which he was president, together with a report describing it in full. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- They would not measure round the waist more than so much--describing to me the circumference with his hands. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The State which we have been describing is said to be wise as being good in counsel? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
編輯:奥尔加