describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of;

"You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"

"This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover"

be characteristic of;

"What characterizes a Venetian painting?"

a spokesman said: 「to characterise our extremely safe, high quality, food production systems as factory farming is simply to use exaggeration and rhetoric in place of argument.

一位发言人说：「把我们非常安全，优质的粮食生产系统贬为工厂化农业只不过是夸张和诡辩，无根无据。

increased mobility and the ubiquitousness of television and radio have done surprisingly little to homogenise the distinctive accents and dialects that characterise the different parts of the country.

增加的流动性和电视及电台的普遍存在对划分了该国不同地区不同的口音和方言的单一化却很少令人感到意外。

needless to say, proponents of early withdrawal do not characterise their approach as just hoping for the best.

不消说，支持尽早撤军的人并没把他们的想法列了单纯的“心怀好结果」。

that is how some uruguayans characterise the options they will face on october 25th when they choose a new president and congress.

那是部分乌拉圭人民形容他们将在十月廿五日面对的候选人之一，当天他们将选出新任总统和国会。

then there is the web ontology language (owl), which provides a way to characterise objects.

接着就是开发万维网实体论语言（owl），这种语言为给对象定性提供了解决方案。

he spells it out: all the drive, wit, love, pride, anger, hope and anxiety that characterise the species homo sapiens are simply there to perpetuate the biological cycle.

威尔逊可谓是语出惊人，他说：所有用以刻画人类这个物种的种种特性，如内驱力、智力、爱情、骄傲、愤怒、希望和焦虑等，仅仅是为了让生物周期永久延续下去。

i「m not sure i would characterise it [kinnock」s remarks] as an announcement.

我不能确定金诺克的发言是否是正式宣布。

i characterise each benefit in terms of a decoupling, where each decoupling increases an organizations agility, and increased agility results in reduced costs and reduced time to value.

我描述了解耦方面的所有好处，每次解耦都能提升组织的敏捷度，进而降低成本、减少实现价值所需的时间。

a war of words between galbraith and the un – which has attempted to characterise the row as a 」personality dispute「 – has been gradually escalating since he was sacked last week.

自从上个星期加尔布雷斯被解职之后，一场他与联合国之间的舌战便开始逐步升级。而这场论战却开始让人们觉得整个事件更像是一场个人纠纷。

for many commuters, the london underground provides a welcome refuge from the deluge of e-mails, text messages, phone calls and the like that characterise life in the 21st century.

对许多上班族来说，伦敦地铁为他们提供了一个可喜的「避难所」，使他们远离那些充斥在21世纪生活中的电子邮件，短信，电话及诸如此类。

she cautions that 」it would be wrong to characterise all opposition to vaccines as cranky or anti-science, 「 because there can be problems with vaccines.

他告诫」那将是错误的把所有反对接种疫苗的描述看成是胡思乱想或是反科学的，因为接种会遇到某些问题。

a social structure represents some of the cultural aspects that characterise the relationships between the participants.

社会结构代表着参与者之间关系的某些文 化方面的特征。

「zero」 was a catchier slogan than the arcane incrementalism that had come to characterise old-time arms control.

与塑造旧式军备控制特征的艰涩的渐进主义相比，「零核」是个更具吸引力的标语。

a team at the university of cambridge came up with the theory by applying a mathematical model to the various factors that characterise males and females.

剑桥大学的一个研究团队通过采用一个多因素的数学模型，提出了这个理论，这个模型同时考察了男性和女性。

a unique combination of anniversaries and events have stirred in us that sense of pride and gratitude which characterise the british experience.

一系列的纪念活动以及事件让我们的荣耀感和感激之情澎湃——它们标志了英国的过往。

wounds characterise ms horn in another way.

伤痛则从另一个方面界定了霍恩女士的性格。

rather, the worry is of persistent price declines that characterise true deflation.

然而，真正令人担忧的是持续的价格下跌，那才是真正的通货紧缩的标志。

some officials have sensibly sought to characterise the pull-out as a purely commercial decision of little broader significance.

一些官员明智地试图将退出定性为一个纯商业决定，没有多少影响大局的意义。

some experts think this will involve a more european approach, which they characterise as focusing on protecting particular competitors rather than protecting competition.

一些专家认为这会牵涉到更多欧盟方式，特点是聚焦于保护特别的竞争者而不是保护竞争。

k and we can characterise the k which we call the k infinite by a number of terms.

我们能划出,我们称为k无限，通过一些术语。

in the future, it is planned to modify the radar to characterise targets in more detail by exploiting their polarimetric and doppler signatures.

未来，计划调试雷达，通过探测目标的偏振式多普勒特征，以更详细的描述目标。