descend
基本释义
- v.
- 下来，下降，下斜; 沦落; 降临; 突然造访; 陷入（糟糕境地）
词性变化
- 第三人称单数:descends;
- 过去式:descended;
- 过去分词:descended;
- 现在分词:descending;
实用例句
The country was descending into chaos.
这个国家陷入一片混乱。
牛津词典
Hundreds of football fans descended on the city.
数百名足球迷蜂拥入城。
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They descended to the level of personal insults.
他们竟卑鄙到进行人身侮辱的地步。
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He claims to be descended from a Spanish prince.
他声称是一位西班牙王子的后裔。
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Calm descended on the crowd.
人群平静下来。
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At this point the path descends steeply.
小路从这里陡然而下。
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Night descends quickly in the tropics.
热带地区黑夜来得快。
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The plane began to descend.
飞机开始降落。
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The results, ranked in descending order (= from the highest to the lowest) are as follows:
结果按递减顺序排列如下。
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She descended the stairs slowly.
她缓慢地走下楼梯。
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We're not going to descend to such methods...
我们不会沦落到使用这种手段。
She's got too much dignity to descend to writing anonymous letters.
她是个自尊心很强的人，绝不会自贬身份去写匿名信。
He was ultimately overthrown and the country descended into chaos.
他最终被推翻，整个国家则陷入了混乱。
Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar...
当我们往下走去地窖时，四周愈见阴冷潮湿。
She descended one flight of stairs.
她走下了一段楼梯。
An uneasy calm descended on the area...
一种令人不安的平静笼罩了该地区。
A reverent hush descended on the multitude.
人群虔敬地噤了声。
3,000 city officials descended on Capitol Hill to lobby for more money...
3,000名市政官员齐聚国会山，为筹集更多的款项进行游说。
Curious tourists and reporters from around the globe are descending upon the peaceful villages.
好奇的游客和记者从世界各地一齐涌向这些平静的村落。
Darkness has now descended and the moon and stars shine hazily in the clear sky.
夜幕现在已经降临，晴朗的天空里月影婆娑，星光朦胧。
As they descend the hill like madmen running a race, he falls.
他们像疯子赛跑一样往坡下冲, 他摔倒了.
英汉文学 - 双城记
The pain is beginning to lift, I am beginning to feel a descend upon me.
我的疼痛开始减轻, 我开始感到一种安宁.
期刊摘选
In future, astronauts will be required to descend from a spaceship while it is still in space and return to it.
将来, 宇航员应当能从依然在太空中的宇宙飞船中下来,并且能够回到飞船里去.
《用法词典》
However, the ground water table tends to descend, accounting for 62 % of the cities and regions.
但地下水水位总的发展趋势仍以下降为主,下降区比例高达62%.
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Ended to allly, cover up to descend a little hope.
结束了所有的憧憬, 埋下了一点点希望.
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Soon afterwards, the balloon began to descend and it landed near an airfield.
后来不久, 那只气球开始下降了,结果它在一个机场附近着陆了.
《用法词典》
Bob and his girl friend descend on us for the weekend.
鲍伯和他女友突然来我家过周末.
期刊摘选
真题例句
In the 2006 film version of The Devil Wears Prada ,Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, scolds her unattractive assistant for imagining that high fashion doesn’t affect her, Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant’s sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to departments stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.
出自-2013年考研阅读原文英英释义
1. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way;
"The temperature is going down"
"The barometer is falling"
"The curtain fell on the diva"
"Her hand went up and then fell again"
2. come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example;
"She was descended from an old Italian noble family"
"he comes from humble origins"
3. do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
4. come as if by falling;
"Night fell"
"Silence fell"
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