descend

vi. 下降；下去；下来；遗传；屈尊

vt. 下去；沿…向下

v.

下来，下降 ；下斜；降临；突然造访

变形

过去式：descended过去分词：descended现在分词：descending第三人称单数：descends

双语释义

vi. & vt. 下来,下去 come or go down

英英释义

descend[ di'send ]

v.

move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

同义词：fallgo downcome down

come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example

"She was descended from an old Italian noble family"

同义词：derivecome

do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

同义词：condescenddeign

come as if by falling

同义词：fallsettle

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

descend one's cheeks(泪)落两颊

descend the slope顺坡向下走

～+副词

descend benignly吉祥地下落

descend giddily轻浮地下落

descend gracefully优美地下落

descend gradually渐渐地下落

descend hastily急速地下落

descend impartially不偏不倚地下落

descend noiselessly无声地下落

descend quickly快速地下落

descend unexpectedly意外地下落

～+介词

descend from one's ancestors从祖上传下来

descend from a poet of the Tang Dynasty是唐代一位诗人的后代

descend from a religious rite起源于宗教仪式

descend from the tower从塔上下来

descend to spreading scandal and gossip堕落到传播丑闻和谣言的地步

词组短语

descend from由…传下来的；起源于

descend on袭击

descend upon vt. 突然到达）；袭击（突然降临

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“落下，下降”的意思，其区别是：

drop指物体从一定高度落下。

fall与drop同义，指突然或猛烈地降落，但fall也可指任何下落，同高度或形式无关。

sink指在空气或水中垂直下降、下沉。

descend通常指沿斜线或斜坡下降。

这两者都可表向下运动。

fall 指由于重力突然从高处落下或因为失去平衡而跌倒。如：She slipped and fell down.(她滑了一下摔倒了。)

descend 多指沿着斜面而缓慢向下移动。如：He descended the hill.(他下山了。)

双语例句

用作动词(v.)

The sun descended behind the hills.
太阳下山了。

I wish that the prices can descend.
但愿物价会下降。

I didn't expect him to descend to personal abuse.
我没料到他会堕落到对我进行人身攻击的地步。

At 6:30 p.m. the tropical darkness descends.
在傍晚六点半的时候,热带地区的黑夜降临。

用作动词(v.)

The custom has descended to our day.
这一习俗一直传到今天。

He is descended from Confucius.
他是孔子的後裔。

用作动词(v.)

Armed thieves descended on the helpless travelers.
一群武装盗贼袭击了无依无靠的旅客。

My sister's family is descending on us this weekend.
想不到我姐姐一家本周末要到我们这里来

权威例句

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.

1. Subsequently, the fine particles are widely dispersed in the atmosphere and descend to earth very slowly.

随后，细小的颗粒在大气中广泛散布并以极慢的速度下降到地面。

2. ALTITUDE ACQUIRE, A digital flight control system mode to transition from climb (or descend) to level flight.

高度截获，一种数字式飞行操纵系统，从爬升（或下降）改平的模式。

3. Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.

以色列的王基督，现在可以从十字架上下来，叫我们看见，就信了。那和他同钉的人也是讥诮他。

4. The bell pulses to give some directional control, but mostly they drift with the wind. It expels gas to descend, and expels water from trim bladders to rise.

膜囊有规律的摆动以提供一些方向性的控制但它们主要是随波逐流。它通过排出气体来下降通过压缩气囊排出水来上升。

5. Open the hatch and descend a metal ladder to find your bedroom -- in a watertight chamber suspended in the water beneath the hut.

打开舱口顺着梯子下去可以找到卧室。卧室的设计很独特，位于小屋下方浮在水中的防水密室里。

6. And in she give my those things I am unique to want to abandon be very heavy cover with on the head of that aureole because of even I abandon that is shining also at gradually dreary descend.

而在她给我的那些东西里，我唯一想抛弃掉的，就是沉甸甸笼罩在头上的那圈光环，因为，即使我不去抛弃，那光亮也在渐渐黯淡下去。

7. The photosynthetic rate descend gradually because of the decrepitude of the leaf.

后期由于叶子的衰老，光合速率逐渐下降。

8. For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

因为他死的时候，什么也不能带去。他的荣耀不能随他下去。

9. In winter, because the water temperature descend and the activity of microbial reduce.

冬季由于进水温度的下降，微生物活性的降低，处理效果明显下降。

10. In future, astronauts will be required to descend from a spaceship while it is still in space and to return to it.

将来，将要求宇航员从停在太空里的飞船中下来并且能回到飞船中去。

11. He could not descend himself into the arena .

他自己不能下到竞技场里去。

12. Among the second industry, the scale of foreign investment in the Labor-intensive Industries will descend.

在第二产业中，劳动密集型行业的外资规模将有所下降。

13. I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people could descend in very fragile canoes.

我认为每一个大城市都应该有人造瀑布，使人们能乘着不结实的独木舟从瀑布上冲下来。

14. A slack string will allow the kite to drift with the wind and descend.

一条放松的线会让风筝随风飘动而下降。

15. Nothing at all, I should rather suppose; for she has only herjointure, which will descend to her children.

“我看什么也不会有，她只有点寡妇所得产，将来要传给她的女儿。” 䶀。

16. I wish that the prices can descend.

但愿物价会下降。

17. Presently her footfall die out as she descend to the lower floor.

当她下到下一层楼时，她的脚步声不久就消失了。

18. Either you descend into flowery metaphor or you indulge in the "naming of parts".

你或者浸淫在华丽的比喻里，或者沉迷于“玩意儿的名字”中。

19. Soon afterwards, the balloon began to descend and it landed near an airfield.

不久，这个热气球开始降落，在一个停机坪附近着了陆。 。

20. As narrow as three feet wide and a thousand feet deep, few people have ever had the courage to descend into this mysterious world.

宽度只有窄窄的三英尺，深达千尺，只有很少人有勇气深入到这个神秘的世界里去一探究竟。

21. Soon afterwards, the balloon began to descend and it landed near an airfield.

过了一会儿，气球开始降落，并且在一个机场附近着陆了。

22. These figures are but a small indicator of the plunder carried out by the Empire, whose spokesman Winston Churchill famously said that India would descend into barbarism were the British to leave.

而在这个帝国的掠夺过程中，这些数字只是一个小指标，它的代言人温斯顿·丘吉尔有句名言，印度在英国人离开后将会陷入落后和野蛮。

23. If all goes according to plan, however, a team of biologists and mathematicians from the University of Sydney will soon descend on a swarm and try to resolve the mystery.

似乎它们的行动很有计划，然而，一队来自悉尼大学的生物学家和数学家们很快突然袭击了一群蝗虫并试图解开这个秘密。

24. To descend to particulars, just what work DO you DO every day?

现在谈具体的，你每天到底做些什么工作?。

25. She has only her jointure which will descend to her children.

她只有她的寡妇所得产，而那会留给他的孩子们的。

26. The tendency of chlorophyll content was ascend in first and descend at last.

叶绿素含量在各播期基本都呈现先升后降的趋势。

27. Deep inspiration causes the liver to descend .

深吸气使肝脏下降。

28. Deep inspiration causes the liver to descend .

深吸气使肝脏下降。

29. You can ride the escalator up but have to descend on foot.

你可以搭电梯上去,但要自己走下来。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

30. It is easier to descend a mountain than to climb up it.

下山比上山容易。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

31. I hope the grace of God would descend on me.

我期望上帝的恩惠。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

32. He thought his fancy must have deceived him, and turned again to descend.

他想这一定是幻觉，便重新转身下山。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

33. He could not himself descend into the arena with slope.

他自己不能跟斯洛普一块下去走进竞技

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

34. He could not descend himself into the arena.

他自己不能下到竞技场里去。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

35. I cannot descend to be tricked out of assurances that are not really wanted.

我不能屈从地去被那些并不是真正应该说出的话所欺骗。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

36. They descend with a gliding motion that reminds one of the flight of birds.

他们下山时的滑翔动作，使人联想起鸟类的飞行。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

37. Peter used the service stairway to descend the two flights.

彼得从职工专用楼梯走下两层楼梯。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

38. Deep inspiration causes the liver to descend.

深吸气使肝脏下降。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句