descend是什么意思_(由…传下来的；起源于的英文)

变形

第三人称单数: descends

现在分词: descending

过去式: descended

过去分词: descended

基本释义

v. 下来，下降；下倾，下斜；降临，来临；（情绪、气氛等）笼罩；突然到来，突然造访；降低身份，堕落；衰落，陷入；遗传

考试频率

四级

考频：近五年出现1次

v. 依次递降

考研

考频：近六年出现1次

v. 堕落; 沦落

例句

1·The pilots were told to descend to 2-2,000 feet.

飞行员被告知要将飞机下降到2-2000英尺。
2·It expels gas to descend, and expels water from trim bladders to rise.

它通过排出气体来下降，并通过把水排出气囊来上升。
3·With a thin scream, like a tea-kettle whistle, the medusa starts to descend.

随着一声像茶壶煮开了水那样的微弱的叫声，水母开始下降。
4·The instruction actually meant 22,000 feet, but they thought they heard descend 2,000 feet.

指令实际上指的是22000英尺，但他们以为他们听到的是下降2000英尺。
5·The pilots did descend to the wrong altitude then, thinking they were following the air controllers' instructions.

飞行员确实以错误的高度下降，并以为他们遵循了空中管制员的指示。
6·It would need to deploy a parachute, descend through the clouds and transmit a GPS coordinate to a cell phone tower.

它需要打开降落伞穿过云层下降，把 GPS 坐标发射到手机基站。
7·Planes must zigzag from one ground beacon to the next, and ascend and descend in steps at each stage obtaining permission from the ground.

飞机从一个地面信标到下一个信标曲折飞行，在每一阶段都要经过地面的许可才能上升和下降。
8·The plane began to descend.

飞机开始降落。

来源: 《牛津词典》
9·We're not going to descend to such methods.

我们不会堕落到使用这些方式的份上。

来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
10·Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar.

我们往地窖中下得越深，里面就越冷、越潮湿。

来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》