【describe音标】 英[dɪˈskraɪb] 美[dɪˈskraɪb]
【单词释义】 describe是什么意思：
vt.描写，形容；叙述；描绘，作图；（行星等）周转
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] describes
[单词现在分词] describing
[单词过去式] described
[单词过去分词] described
【关联词/派生词】
description n.描述；说明
descriptive adj. 描写的，说明的，叙述的；描述性的
【describe形近词/近似词】
inscribe vt.题写，题献；雕，刻
ascribe vt.把…归于，认为…是由于；认为…具有
proscribe vt.(宣布)禁止；剥夺……的公权
prescribe v.开药方；指定，规定
subscribe v.订阅，订购；定期捐款赞助
【单词例句】
◇ "We shall be much obliged to you," said the impostors, and then they named the different colors and described the pattern of the pretended stuff.
“嗯，我们听到您的话真高兴，”两个织工一起说。他们把这些稀有的色彩和花纹描述了一番，还加上些名词儿。
◇ The name Holland only refers to two of the country's 12 provinces, North-Holland, where Amsterdam is located, and South-Holland, the home of Rotterdam and The Hague. However, the nickname is often used to describe the entire country, officially called the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
“荷兰”这个名字仅指该国12个省中的两个省，即阿姆斯特丹所在的“北荷兰省”，以及鹿特丹和海牙所在的“南荷兰省”。 然而，这一名称却经常被用来代指整个国家。荷兰的官方全称为尼德兰王国。
---- Netherlands doesn't want you to call it Holland anymore
◇ While university appears to be the older of the two terms, dating as far back as the 13th century, schools and students in North America have embraced college to describe most places of higher learning.
尽管university这个词汇在这两者中历史更悠久，早在13世纪就产生了，但北美的学校和学生却主要用college来指代大多数高校。
---- What's the difference between a college and a university?
◇ Today, using both words to describe the season before winter is still a uniquely American behavior.
如今，用两个词来指代冬天之前的这个季节仍然是美国独有的做法。
---- The reason why Americans refer to Autumn as fall?
◇ The star is 40% cooler than our sun and only about a third of the sun's mass and size. A study describing the three planets was published this week in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
这颗恒星的温度比太阳低40%，质量和体积只有太阳的三分之一左右。一项描述这三颗行星的研究本周发表在《天文学与天体物理学》期刊上。
---- NASA finds potentially habitable super-Earth
◇ There was a male peacock's long tail is really beautiful, golden and green colors interleaved with each other under the sun shone bright in the sunlight, stunning natural beauty of this miraculous good fortune as much a masterpiece, this is not an ordinary artist with colorful pen can describe arrived at.
有一只雄孔雀的长尾巴真是漂亮极了，金黄和翠绿的颜色互相交错，在阳光下闪烁着艳丽的光泽，令人惊叹大自然的造化竟有如此神奇美妙的杰作，这绝不是一般的画家用七彩笔所能描绘得出来的。
---- The Peacock