describing
描述,说明,叙述,描述的
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de·scribed, de·scrib·ing.
- : to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- : to pronounce, as by a designating term, phrase, or the like; label: There are few people who may be described as geniuses.
- : to indicate; be a sign of; denote: Conceit, in many cases, describes a state of serious emotional insecurity.
- : to represent or delineate by a picture or figure.
- : Geometry. to draw or trace the outline of: to describe an arc.
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Examples
He also described reading widely to buttress his leadership skills—mostly biographies of figures like Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Howard Hughes, but also science treatises like Steven Wolfram’s A Project to Find the Fundament Theories of Physics.
Thoughtful, personal communication has also been key, said Mark Hoplamazian, CEO of Hyatt Hotels, who describes the year for the company and the travel industry as “extraordinarily painful.”
That’s the word Superintendent Cindy Marten chose to describe the state of the district during her annual speech this week.
“Unstoppable” is not exactly the adjective that Delphine Duckett, a grandmother of six, would have chosen to describe the district’s operations.
In order to properly classify mosaics, Domokos started describing them with two numbers.
They are fathers, describing to the rest of us what I thought was a widely acknowledged reality.
As a writer, I tried mainly to stick close to the concrete particulars of the events and the performances I was describing.
At times, it reads as if he is describing the backdrop of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
Describing by biographers as an avid writer of letters, little of his correspondence appears available to public view.
They would speak up, but in tones still soft and placid; and Spahn often overheard them describing him as a “beautiful person.”
Whether we take this phrase as describing the object or result of founding that college, it is a case of Concurrence.