description
/dɪsˈkrɪpʃən/noun
1
- a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event描述; 描写; 形容：
people who had seen him were able to give a description.
见过他的人都能形容出他的模样来。
1.1
- mass noun the action of giving such a representation or account描述; 描写; 形容（指动作）：
teaching by demonstration and description.
通过演示和描述进行教学。
2
- a sort, kind, or class of people or things（人或物的）类别：
it is laughably easy to buy drugs of all descriptions.
各类毒品都可买得, 简直容易到了荒唐的程度。
短语
beyond description
- to a great and astonishing extent极其, 无法形容：
his face was swollen beyond description.
他的脸肿得无法形容。
defy description
- be so unusual or remarkable as to be impossible to describe（因异乎寻常而）无法形容：
the sheer scale of the Requiem defies description.
安魂弥撒的规模大得无法形容。
词源
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin descriptio（n-）, from describere 'write down'.