descend
英 [d?'send]
美[d?'s?nd]
- vi. 下降；下去；下來(lái)；遺傳；屈尊
- vt. 下去；沿…向下
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詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?descends;過(guò)去式:?descended;過(guò)去分詞:?descended;現(xiàn)在分詞:?descending;
助記提示
1. descend from your father.
中文詞源
descend 下降
de-, 向下。-scend, 爬，上升，詞源同ascend, scan.即爬下，下降。
英文詞源
- descend
- descend: [13] Etymologically, descend means ‘climb down’. Like its opposite, ascend [14], it comes ultimately from Latin scandere ‘climb’, which also produced English scan and scansion and is related to echelon, escalate, scale ‘set of graduated marks’, scandal, and slander. The Latin verb was a product of the Indo-European base *skand- ‘jump’.
=> ascend, echelon, escalate, scale, scan, scandal, slander - descend (v.)
- c. 1300, from Old French descendre (10c.) "descend, dismount; fall into; originate in," from Latin descendere "come down, descend, sink," from de- "down" (see de-) + scandere "to climb," from PIE root *skand- "jump" (see scan (v.)). Sense of "originate" is late 14c. in English. Related: Descended; descending.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. She's got too much dignity to descend to writing anonymous letters.
- 她是個(gè)自尊心很強(qiáng)的人，絕不會(huì)自貶身份去寫(xiě)匿名信。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. As you descend, suddenly you see at last the hidden waterfall.
- 一直往下走，最終你會(huì)突然看到那條隱秘的瀑布。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar.
- 當(dāng)我們往下走去地窖時(shí)，四周愈見(jiàn)陰冷潮濕。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. The plane began to descend.
- 飛機(jī)開(kāi)始降落。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 5. If a prisoner is badly treated, he may descend to violence.
- 如果囚犯受虐待, 他就可能發(fā)展到行兇.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》