a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event
描述;描写;形容
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people who had seen him were able to give a description. 见过他的人都能形容出他的模样来。
[mass noun]the action of giving such a representation or account
描述;描写;形容(指动作)
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teaching by demonstration and description. 通过演示和描述进行教学。
a sort, kind, or class of people or things
(人或物的)类别
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it is laughably easy to buy drugs of all descriptions. 各类毒品都可买得,简直容易到了荒唐的程度。
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beyond description to a great and astonishing extent 极其,无法形容his face was swollen beyond description. 他的脸肿得无法形容 -
defy description be so unusual or remarkable as to be impossible to describe (因异乎寻常而)无法形容the sheer scale of the Requiem defies description. 安魂弥撒的规模大得无法形容
"late Middle English: via Old French from Latin