英语释义

1. to pass from a higher place or level to a lower one
descended from the platform

2. to pass in discussion from what is logically prior or more comprehensive
descends from the general to the specific

3. to originate or come from an ancestral stock or source derive
descends from an old merchant family

4. to pass by inheritance
a desk that has descended in the family

5. to pass by transmission
songs descended from old ballads

6. to incline, lead, or extend downward
the road descends to the river

7. to conduct nerve impulses away from the brain
… lesions that interrupt the descending pathways from the cortex or brain stem produce weakness in voluntary movements …
— Claude Ghez and John Krakauer

8. to swoop or pounce down (as in a sudden attack)
a hawk descending upon its prey

9. to appear suddenly and often disconcertingly as if from above
reporters descended on the candidate

10. to proceed in a sequence or gradation from higher to lower or from more remote to nearer or more recent
Their scores were listed in descending order.

11. to lower oneself in status or dignity stoop

12. to worsen and sink in condition or estimation
He descended into a deep depression. descended to poverty descend into chaos

13. to pass from higher to lower musical notes
The harmony descends chromatically.

14. to pass, move, or climb down or down along
descending the staircase

15. to extend down along
a narrow scar descended her arm

16. to go down to go or move from a higher to a lower place or level

17. to slope or lead downward

18. to go or change to a worse state or condition

19. to come or go down from a higher place or level to a lower one
The elevator descended.

20. to move down or down along
Descending the cliff was dangerous.

21. to slope or lead downward
The road descends to the valley.

22. to come down from an earlier time
The custom descends from ancient times.

23. to come down from a source or ancestor derive
Many words descend from Latin.

24. to be handed down to an heir

25. to arrive from or as if from the sky
Locusts descended on the crops. Holiday shoppers descended on the mall.

26. to sink in dignity or respectability stoop
I never thought they would descend to cheating.

27. to sink to a worse condition
The classroom descended into chaos.

28. to pass from a higher place or level to a lower one
normally the testicle descends into the scrotum between the seventh and ninth month in utero
— Therapeutic Notes

29. to pass by inheritance

片语

Then Descended后逐渐下降

descend on袭击

descended on the town蜂拥入城

descended gradually逐渐下降

descended upon突然到达）；袭击（突然降临

descended tundish降落漏斗

temperature descended气温下降

descend from由…传下来的；起源于

gradually descended逐渐下降

descended from由…传下来的；起源于

Being Descended From Lithuania我来自立陶宛

descend upon突然到达）；袭击（突然降临

英汉例句

• People thought that Darwin was saying they were descended from monkeys. What a shameful idea!

  人们认为达尔文在说人是猴子的后代，这种观点简直有失体面！

• Armed thieves descended on the travellers.

  武装强盗袭击了旅游者。

• By 2001 Latinos, most of them Mexicans or descended from Mexicans, had become the second-biggest ethnic group in America.

  到2001年，拉美裔美国人(其中大多是墨西哥人或墨西哥人后裔)已成为美国第二大种族。

• According to the San Diego Zoo, every American white tiger is descended from a single father.

  据圣地亚哥动物园，美国的每一只白虎都是单一的父本的后代。

• They believed whales had descended from mesonychids.

  他们认为鲸是爪兽的后裔。

• This is not because God created them to poke fun at us, or vice versa; it is because humans and chimps are descended from the same relatively recent primitive ape.

  这并不是因为上帝创造它们来嘲笑我们，或相反的情形；而是因为人类和黑猩猩都是同一个比较近期的原始猿人的后裔。

• The house descended through the male heirs for three centuries.

  这座房子由男性继承人相传了三个世纪。

• They descended from the mountaintop.

  他们从山顶下来。

• Some are of mixed ethnic origin and are descended from Turks, Iranians, Malays, and others, most of whom immigrated as pilgrims and reside in the Hijaz region along the Red Sea coast.

  一些是混合的少数民族，包括突厥人，伊朗人，马来人，和其他族群的后裔，大多数人作为朝圣者移居并且在红海沿岸的汉志地区居住。

• Others thought they were descended from dogs brought by the islands「 first human settlers.

  其他科学家则认为，它们是岛上首批人类定居者带来的狗的后裔。

• Then, after a consultation with her mother, she continued to the top, the fifth level, and descended to recount her triumph.

  然后，在和咨询过母亲之后，她继续往上爬，直到顶端——第五层，之后下来讲述她这次成功的攀登经历。

• I descended by popping balloons with a knife or cutting them free, and climbed by throwing off some of my ballast water.

  我要下降时，就用一把刀捅破一些气球，或者割掉绳子放飞它们。要上升时，就扔掉一部分用来压重的水。

• More recently, an election this month to the Little Rock school board descended into an unseemly row about race because one candidate was white and the other black.

  更近一点的，本月，小石城学校董事会的选举沦为一场不光彩的、事关种族问题的争吵，因为一个候选人是白人，另一个是黑人。

• Half the population descended into poverty and unemployment reached 21%.

  全国半数人口沦为贫困人口，失业率达到21%。

• In the Amazon, most are descended from groups who escaped the depradations of the rubber boom, a period of barbarous development that began in the late 19th century and continued well into the 20th.

  亚马逊地区的大多数原始居民都是从橡胶掠夺中幸存下来的族群的后代，这股橡胶掠夺的野蛮风潮起始于19世纪晚期并一直延续到20世纪。

• We then descended down through a common architecture (SOA) and proceeded by outlining a set of open enabling technologies.

  然后，我们通过一个普通架构(SOA)下降，接着通过概述一系列开放的实现技术继续下去。

• Some even swallowed a delicious Pushtun claim to be descended from a lost tribe of Israel.

  甚至有一些人轻信普什图人是某支不为人知的以色列部落的后裔的美妙说法。

• All of them are descended from that man in the white suit.

  他们都是那位身着白色西装的人的后裔。

• The elevator descended slowly to the ground floor.

  电梯缓缓地降到底楼。

• Once they」ve descended into mindless raiding in an endless, empty pursuit of a trinket, looped for eternity, then they are something quite other.

  而一旦它下降到无尽的，循环的，无脑的追逐一个空洞的装饰品的地步，那它就当然属于别的门类。

• Some are descended from Omani tribes.

  一些是阿曼部落的后裔。

• But drama descended into farce when she discovered that her period had started, for which she had none of the necessary supplies.

  但是戏剧突然转变为闹剧，当她发现她快要来月经时，她没有必备的女性卫生用品。

• According to various reports, some 250 officials descended on the offices of the steel-maker as part of an investigation into suspected tax evasion.

  根据多份报道，作为调查漏税嫌疑行动的一部分，大约有250名官员入驻这家钢铁制造企业的办公室。

• The guerrillas descended on the enemy.

  游击队袭击了敌人。

相似词

decline下降；衰落；谢绝

dip浸，蘸；（使）下降，下沉，减少；（把手、工具）伸入（袋子、容器）；扒窃；动用（资金）；浏览（书籍）；（给牲畜）洗药浴；制作（蜡烛）；给某人施洗礼；（道路、地面）向下倾斜；放下，下移；（把汽车前灯）调为近光

drop滴；落下；空投；微量；滴剂

fall秋天的

plunge突然跌落；（价格、数量等）骤降；投入；跳进；跳水，快速游泳

sink（在水或泥里）下沉；使（船只）沉没；倒下；渗透；完全被理解；使锋利物穿透表面；（物体）沉降；消失；降低；（声音）变小；挖掘；埋入；使消沉，压抑；接近死亡；隐藏；击球入洞；（非正式）猛喝

相反词

arise(Arise) （美、印、德、英）阿里塞（人名）

ascend攀登，上升

climb爬；攀登；增值；（职位或社会地位的）提高；（名次的）攀升；（登山或攀缘运动中要爬的）山；山道；（飞机的）爬升

mount（英）芒特（人名）

rise（数量或水平的）增加；加薪；（权利等）增强；上升；小丘；（诱饵）游上水面；源头；（楼梯的）级高；晋升；出现

uprise升起；上坡

upsweep向上弯曲；活泼化；拢上去的头发

upturn使……转朝上；翻转