A lexicographer's job is to describe the language.
词典编纂者的工作就是对语言加以描述。
The book goes on to describe his experiences in the army.
本书继而描述了他在部队的经历。
'It's so..., so...' I was groping for the right word to describe it.
“它是那么…，那么…”我想找一个恰当的字眼来描述它。
Globalization is a catchall to describe increased international trade.
全球化是描述增长的国际贸易专业术语。
We asked her to describe what kind of things she did in her spare time.
我们请她描述她在闲暇时做些什么。
Suppose someone gave you an egg and asked you to describe exactly what was inside.
假设某人给你一个蛋并要你准确描述里面的东西。
Ask their children to describe its characters.
让孩子描述其中的角色。
Marsh goes on to describe his impression of Nim.
马什在继续向我们描述他对尼姆的印象。
When did people find a way to describe each person exactly?
人们是什么时候找到准确描述每个人的方法的？
To describe a person's serious illness, they say "sick as a dog".
为了形容一个人的严重疾病，他们说“病得像条狗一样”。
On his sign he used the word "restaurant" to describe what he was selling.
在他的招牌上，他用“餐厅”这个词来描述他所卖的东西。
It is no part of ours to describe what was a massacre rather than a fight.
我们无法描述什么是屠杀，而不是战斗。
I wish there would be a way to describe China in a simple word but that's impossible.
我希望能用一个简单的词来形容中国，但这是不可能的。
If you asked me to describe the rising philosophy of the day, I'd say it is data-ism.
如果你让我描述一下当今正在兴起的哲学，我会说它是数据主义。
Groundwater is the word used to describe water that saturates the ground, filling all the available spaces.
地下水这个词描述的是水浸透土地，并填充所有可利用的空间。
The term kleptoplasty is used to describe the practice of using hijacked genes to create nutrients from sunlight.
盗食质体这个术语用以描述利用被劫持的基因从阳光中制造营养物质的做法。
You know, like nouns, to name the type of predator they spotted, adjectives to describe its size and shape, verbs.
这些“语言”包括一些描述它们发现的捕猎者类型的名词，描述其大小和外形的形容词、动词等等。
Charles Darwin, the first to describe the role of natural selection in speciation, wrote about the mechanisms of speciation.
查尔斯·达尔文是第一个描述自然选择在物种形成中的作用的人，他描写了物种形成的机制。
Have you ever used the words unpleasant, creepy crawly, creeping, itching, pulling, or tugging to describe your symptoms to others?
你是否曾用“令人不愉快的”、“令人毛骨悚然的”、“爬行的”、“发痒的”、“拉扯的”、“拽拽的”等词向别人描述过你的症状?
The effect is almost impossible to describe.
这影响几乎无法言表。
It's hard to find enough superlatives to describe this book.
用再多的盛赞之辞也难以描述这本书。
Parmesan is a generic term used to describe a family of hard Italian cheeses.
巴尔马干酪是一个用来描述一类坚硬的意大利奶酪的通用名称。
My films try to describe a journey of discovery, both for myself and the viewer.
我的影片力图为我自己和观众描述一段自我发现的心路历程。
You have to be able to describe things in a form that the end user can understand.
你必须能以最终用户能够理解的方式描述产品。
'Register' is the term commonly used to describe different levels of formality in language.
“语域”是一个术语，通常用以描述语言中用语的正式程度。
The term 'cardboard city' was coined to describe communities of homeless people living in cardboard boxes.
人们创造了cardboardcity一词，用来指居住在纸板棚屋里无家可归者的居住区。
Which word can be used to describe the rain in this poem?
哪一个词可以用来描述这首诗中的雨？
If you have to describe yourself to someone else, what will you say?
如果你必须向别人描述你自己，你会说些什么？
To describe a depressed person, you say that the person is "feeling blue".
你会说某人“feeling blue”来形容这个人很沮丧。
In some cultures, there is an amazingly large vocabulary to describe a certain thing.
在一些文化中，有惊人的大量词汇来描述某一特定事物。
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