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单词 describe
释义
describe
verb[T]
uk
/dɪˈskraɪb/us
/dɪˈskraɪb/
A2
to say or write what someone or something is like:
描述，描写，描绘
Could you describeyourattacker?你能描述一下袭击你的人的样子吗？
He described thepaintingindetail.他详细地描述了那幅油画的内容。
[+ question word]Let me describe (toyou)howithappened.让我来（给你）讲讲事情的经过吧。
She described Garyasshy.她说加利很害羞。
formal
If you describe ashape, youdrawit ormovein adirectionthatfollowsthelineof it:
画；画出…图形
He usedcompassesto describe acircle.他用圆规画了一个圆。
biologyspecialized
torecognizeaplantoranimalasbelongingto aparticulartype, and give it ascientificname:
Sofar,scientistshave described 15,482marinefishspecies, up from 15,304 ayearago.
Thescientificnameformountainlaurelis Kalmia latifolia, from Peter Kalm, an 18th-centurybotanistwho first described thespecies.
More examples
  • Please describe to thecourtexactlywhat yousaw.
  • Hislatestfilmis described as a 'romanticcomedy'.
  • Histeacherdescribed him as anoisy,disruptiveinfluenceinclass.
  • It couldn't by anystretchof theimaginationbe described as abeautifulcity.
  • Heinsistedon describing hisoperationingraphicdetailwhile we wereeatinglunch.
  • ThenewlydescribedSouthAmericanspecieswould have beenslightlysmallerthan today'semperorpenguins.
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(Definition ofdescribefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
describe
verb[T]
uk
/dɪˈskraɪb/us
/dɪˈskraɪb/
A2
to say or write what someone or something is like
描述，描写，描绘
Could you describeyourattacker?你能描述一下袭击你的人的样子吗？
He described thepaintingindetail.他详细地描述了那幅油画的内容。
[+ question word]Let me describe (toyou)howithappened.让我来（给你）讲讲事情的经过吧。
She described Garyasshy.她说加利很害羞。
formal
If you describe ashape, youdrawit ormovein adirectionthatfollowsthelineof it.
画；画出…图形
He usedcompassesto describe acircle.他用圆规画了一个圆。
More examples
  • Please describe to thecourtexactlywhat yousaw.
  • Hislatestfilmis described as a 'romanticcomedy'.
  • Histeacherdescribed him as anoisy,disruptiveinfluenceinclass.
  • It couldn't by anystretchof theimaginationbe described as abeautifulcity.
  • Heinsistedon describing hisoperationingraphicdetailwhile we wereeatinglunch.

describe| American Dictionary

describe
verb[T]
us
/dɪˈskrɑɪb/
to give a written orspokenreportof how something is done or of what someone or something is like:
Thescientistsdescribedtheirfindingsandresearchmethods.
Theywantus toprepareareportdescribing thearea.
[+ question word]Just describe whathappened.
The Democrats describetheirrivalsas thepartyof therich.
(Definition ofdescribefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdescribe

describe
The 28 isolates from the fish-feed factories have been described previously [21].
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We came up pretty much with the same conclusion, as described previously.
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The role of latex agglutination in describing this pattern was essential.
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Figure 2 a shows that our data are well described by the mass-action infection model (equation 10).
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The epidemiological study design, clinical microbiology, environmental description and microbiological investigation of water are described in all the outbreaks.
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The methods for selection of controls have been described elsewhere [21].
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The management of an outbreak of leptospirosis following the competition is described in this paper.
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Therefore, that calves were the source of the outbreaks described here is not surprising.
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Although these chapters veer back towards physiological responses they make a nice way to follow on from the more physical and methodological chapters described earlier.
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We have recently described a laboratory demonstration of the replication of membrane vesicles2.
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The problem appeared when the electron emission was to be described by a single par ticle motion instead of using the ponderomotive potential.
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Our model thus describes a strong electromagnetic wave interacting at normal incidence with a semiinfinite layer of cold plasma with sharp boundary.
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Classes of forms that share a common set of properties may be described efficiently by features that characterize their common properties.
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Therefore, only the electron motion needs to be described in detail.
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A diffusion equation describing a time evolution of the electron distribution function is derived.
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