de·scribe
verb OPAL WOPAL S
/dɪˈskraɪb/
/dɪˈskraɪb/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they describe | /dɪˈskraɪb/ /dɪˈskraɪb/ |
| he / she / it describes | /dɪˈskraɪbz/ /dɪˈskraɪbz/ |
| past simple described | /dɪˈskraɪbd/ /dɪˈskraɪbd/ |
| past participle described | /dɪˈskraɪbd/ /dɪˈskraɪbd/ |
| -ing form describing | /dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ/ /dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ/ |
- to say what somebody/something is like
描述；形容；把…称为 - describe somebody/something The next section describes our findings in detail.
下一节详细介绍我们的发现。 - to describe a method/process/situation
描述方法/过程/情况 - describe somebody/something to somebody Can you describe him to me?
你能向我描述一下他的样子吗？ - describe somebody/something for somebody They described for us exactly what happened.
他们向我们描述了到底发生了什么。 - describe somebody/something as something The man was described as tall and dark, and aged about 20.
据描述这男人高个子，深色皮肤，年龄在 20 岁左右。 - describe yourself as something She describes herself as an artist.
她形容自己是一名艺术家。 - describe how, what, etc… Describe how you did it.
谈谈你是怎样做这事的。 - Words cannot describe what I felt at that moment.
言语无法描述我当时的感受。 - describe doing something Witnesses described seeing strange lights in the sky.
目击者都说看到天上出现了奇异光芒。
Express Yourself Describing a pictureDescribing a pictureIn some exams, you have to describe what you see in a picture or photograph. Here are some useful phrases:- The picture shows a family gathered around a kitchen table.
照片中一家人围坐在餐桌旁。
- The picture shows a family gathered around a kitchen table.
- This is a picture/photo of a busy city street.
这张图／照片里是一条繁华的城市街道。
- This is a picture/photo of a busy city street.
- In the foreground/background, we can see a group of protesters.
在前景／背景中，我们可以看到一群示威者。
- In the foreground/background, we can see a group of protesters.
- In the bottom right-hand corner/top left-hand corner, there's a child sitting alone.
在右下角／左上角，有一个孩子孤零零地坐在那里。
- In the bottom right-hand corner/top left-hand corner, there's a child sitting alone.
- On the left/On the right/In the middle, someone is standing with a bottle in his hand.
在左边／右边／中间，站着一个手里拿着瓶子的人。
- On the left/On the right/In the middle, someone is standing with a bottle in his hand.
- In the cartoon, we can see two people looking at a newspaper headline.
在漫画中，我们可以看到两个人在看报纸的大字标题。
- In the cartoon, we can see two people looking at a newspaper headline.
- The cartoonist has drawn the man to represent a typical businessman.
漫画家把这个男人画成一个典型的商人。
- The cartoonist has drawn the man to represent a typical businessman.
Extra Examples- The area I grew up in is described as semi-rural.
我长大的地区被描述为半农村地区。 - He described briefly what happened.
他简要地描述了事情的经过。 - He goes on to describe very vividly how Caesar was stabbed to death.
他继续生动地描述凯撒是如何给刺死的。 - He goes on to describe vividly how Lincoln was assassinated.
他转而用生动的语言描述了林肯是如何被暗杀的。 - Observers have described the situation in the country as ‘serious’.
观察家将该国的局势描述为“严重”。 - The shirt was variously described as ‘pink’, ‘salmon’ and ‘rose’.
这件衬衫的颜色有不同的说法，有的说是粉红色，有的说是浅橙色，还有的说是玫瑰红。 - Their daily lives are described in detail.
他们的日常生活得到详细的描述。 - This process is fully described in section three of the book.
这本书第三部份完整地描述了这一过程。 - Words cannot describe our feelings at that moment.
我们当时的感觉无法用言语描述出来。 - Jim was described by his colleagues as ‘unusual’.
吉姆被他的同事形容为“不寻常”。 - The current political situation in Vietnam is described in chapter 8.
有关目前越南的政治形势在第8章中作了记述。 - Production data were collected and analysed by methods previously described for Trial 1.
通过先前为试验 1 描述的方法收集和分析生产数据。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- accurately
- exactly
- in detail
- …
- cannot
- be difficult to
- be hard to
- …
- describe somebody/something The next section describes our findings in detail.
- describe something (formal or specialist) to make a movement that has a particular shape; to form a particular shape
沿…形状移动；画出…图形；形成…形状 - The shark described a circle around the shoal of fish.
这条鲨鱼围绕着鱼群游动。 - The road describes a long loop around the town.
这条路绕着城镇绕了一圈。
- The shark described a circle around the shoal of fish.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin describere, from de- ‘down’ + scribere ‘write’.