descend

英 [d?'send] 美[d?'s?nd]

反義詞

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第三人稱單數:?descends;過去式:?descended;過去分詞:?descended;現在分詞:?descending;

1. descend from your father.

descend 下降

de-, 向下。-scend, 爬，上升，詞源同ascend, scan.即爬下，下降。

descend: descend: [13] Etymologically, descend means ‘climb down’. Like its opposite, ascend [14], it comes ultimately from Latin scandere ‘climb’, which also produced English scan and scansion and is related to echelon, escalate, scale ‘set of graduated marks’, scandal, and slander. The Latin verb was a product of the Indo-European base *skand- ‘jump’.
=> ascend, echelon, escalate, scale, scan, scandal, slander
descend (v.): c. 1300, from Old French descendre (10c.) "descend, dismount; fall into; originate in," from Latin descendere "come down, descend, sink," from de- "down" (see de-) + scandere "to climb," from PIE root *skand- "jump" (see scan (v.)). Sense of "originate" is late 14c. in English. Related: Descended; descending.

1. She's got too much dignity to descend to writing anonymous letters.: 她是個自尊心很強的人，絕不會自貶身份去寫匿名信。

2. As you descend, suddenly you see at last the hidden waterfall.: 一直往下走，最終你會突然看到那條隱秘的瀑布。

3. Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar.: 當我們往下走去地窖時，四周愈見陰冷潮濕。

5. If a prisoner is badly treated, he may descend to violence.: 如果囚犯受虐待, 他就可能發展到行兇.