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词汇 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 describe your attacker?你能描述一下袭击你的人的样子吗?
describe something in detailHe described the painting in detail.他详细地描述了那幅油画的内容。
describe something to someoneDescribe to us how you felt when you won.
[ + question word ]Let me describe how it happened.
describe someone/something as something/doing somethingShe described Gary as shy.她说加利很害羞。
She was described as having "fierce blue eyes".
formal
If you describe a shape, you draw it or move in a direction that follows the line of it: 画;画出…图形
He used compasses to describe a circle.他用圆规画了一个圆。
biology specialized
to recognize a plant or animal as belonging to a particular type, and give it a scientific name:
So far, scientists have described 15,482 marine fish species, up from 15,304 a year ago.
The scientific name for mountain laurel is Kalmia latifolia, from Peter Kalm, an 18th-century botanist who first described the species.
Please describe to the court exactly what you saw.请向法官陈述你看到的真实情况。
His latest film is described as a 'romantic comedy'.
His teacher described him as a noisy, disruptive influence in class.他的老师说他在班里是一个喜欢吵吵嚷嚷的捣乱分子。
It couldn't by any stretch of the imagination be described as a beautiful city.
He insisted on describing his operation in graphic detail while we were eating lunch.我们吃午饭的时候,他偏要绘声绘色地描述他动手术的情形。
The newly described South American species would have been slightly smaller than today's emperor penguins.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Defining & explaining
account (to someone) for something
accountability
adumbrate
adumbration
annotation
annotator
belabour
demythologize
extenuate
indefinably
indescribably
inexpressibly
justificatory
lay something out
outline
sketch
spell
trace
walk through something
what is he, are they, etc. like?idiom

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Bending, twisting and curving
Painting, drawing & printing
Classifying and creating order
Species & genders

describe | American Dictionary


describe
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈskrɑɪb/
to give a written or spoken report of how something is done or of what someone or something is like:
The scientists described their findings and research methods.
They want us to prepare a report describing the area.
[ + question word ]Just describe what happened.
The Democrats describe their rivals as the party of the rich.

Examples of describe


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