一、详细释义：


v.

下来；下去；下降；沿…向下 [I,T]


例句：

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。


例句：

I wish that the prices can descend.

但愿物价会下降。


下斜；下倾 [I,T]


例句：

We turn the corner and see that the road descend steeply.

我们转过弯，看到路陡然下倾。


降临 [I,T]


例句：

The plague descended upon this small town.

瘟疫突然降临到这个小城镇。


例句：

The noise became obliterating. Then solid darkness descended.

接下来，噪音消失了，黑暗降临了。


遗传 [I]


例句：

According to the bible, we is all descend from adam.

据圣经所载，我们全是亚当的后裔。


例句：

He descended from an ancient stem.

他出身于一个古老的家系。


屈尊；堕落 [I]


例句：

You would never descend to fraud.

你绝不能堕落到骗人的地步。


例句：

You would never descend to cheating.

你绝不至沦于欺骗。


袭击 [I]


例句：

Be on the lookout! The enemy may descend upon us any moment.

警惕些，敌人随时都可能向我们发动突然袭击。


二、词义辨析：


descend,drop,fall,sink

这些动词都表示“落下，下降”之意。 descend通常指沿斜线或斜坡下降。 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。


三、参考例句：


The plane began to descend.

飞机开始降落。


I wish that the prices can descend.

但愿物价会下降。


You would never descend to cheating.

你绝不至沦于欺骗。


You would never descend to fraud.

你绝不能堕落到骗人的地步。


I would never descend to begging.

我永远也不会沦落到以乞讨为生。


These ideas descend from those of the ancient philosophers.

这些观点源于古代的哲学家。


According to the bible, we is all descend from adam.

据圣经所载，我们全是亚当的后裔。


Be on the lookout! The enemy may descend upon us any moment.

警惕些，敌人随时都可能向我们发动突然袭击。


The balloon began to descend and it landed near an airfield.

热气球开始降落，并在一个机场附近着陆。


We turn the corner and see that the road descend steeply.

我们转过弯，看到路陡然下倾。