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词汇 describing
释义 describing
present participle ofdescribe
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?
He described the painting in detail.他详细地描述了那幅油画的内容。
[ + question word ]Let me describe (to you) how it happened.让我来(给你)讲讲事情的经过吧。
She described Gary as shy.她说加利很害羞。
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
excuse
extenuate
indefinably
indescribably
inexpressibly
justificatory
lay something out
outline
sketch
spell
walk through something
what is he, are they, etc. like?idiom

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


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

Examples of describing


describing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


It is used as a structured approach to describing the data and deriving interpretive themes, a ' tool ' for the selection and description of data sets.
After determining the parameters describing the susceptibility to lodging, their correlation with the physical properties of varieties was straightforward to calculate.
Detecting and describing preventive intervention effects in a universal school-based randomized trial targeting delinquent and violent behavior.
An estimate of the magnitude of the vertical shear may be obtained using, for example, the equation describing the y component of vorticity.
We also assume without loss of generality that the path describing the boundary starts and ends at the same vertical height.
This equational presentation is not useful in describing a collection class unless we find a useful canonical representation for the instance collections.
The precise form of mathematical functions describing these effects is established, while approximate methods for efficient computing of these functions are also proposed.
Understanding a system, rather than just describing it, usually requires studying that system plus other systems with which it interacts.
We start by describing how functions can generally be defined.
Chapter 1, written by the editors, opens by describing the scope of the book and the role of local institutions in deforestation.
Given we are interested in describing the possibilities for in terms of the closed -orbits.
For each item, children chose from among three option statements, describing increasing levels of depressive symptoms, to characterize their experiences in the past 2 weeks.
The difficulty here center s on the problem of appropriate continuation of functions describing the steady state beyond their initial range of the definition.
The understanding of the proof-theoretic structure of a logic demands more than simply describing its sequent calculus.
Elastic constants describing the director profile and the layer distortion were included as well as surface energy terms.
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