1. 描述;描写;形容;叙述
If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.
e.g. We asked her to describe what kind of things she did in her spare time...
我们请她描述一下她业余时间都在做什么。
e.g. She broke down describing how she was arrested for refusing a breath test...
她在叙述自己如何因为拒绝接受呼吸测试而被捕时再也控制不住情绪。
2. 把…说成;把…称为;认为
If a person describes someone or something as a particular thing, he or she believes that they are that thing and says so.
e.g. He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale...
他说那是一个非常曲折复杂的故事。
e.g. Eriksson described him as 'the best player on the pitch'...
埃里克森称他是“场上最好的球员”。
3. 描画,画出(图形);形成…的形状
If something describes a particular shape, it forms that shape or makes a movement that follows the line of that shape.
e.g. His pass described a perfect arc through the leaden sky.
他的传球在阴沉的天空中划出了一道完美的弧线。
When you use
describe with an indirect object, you must put
to in front of the indirect object.
He later described to me what he had found... Could you describe the man to the police? You do not say, for example, 'He described me what he had found'.
describe 接间接宾语时,间接宾语前必须加 to:He later described to me what he had found (他后来向我描述了他所发现的东西),Could you describe the man to the police (你能向警察形容一下那人的模样吗)。不要说 He described me what he had found。