descent的意思

descent

英 [dɪ'sent] 美 [dɪ'sɛnt]

近義詞	subsidence 、 trip 、 decline 、 tumble 、 droop 、 plunge 、 fall 、 drop 、 plummet 、 dive

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複數: descents;

descent (n.): c. 1300, from Old French descente "descent, descendance, lineage," formed from descendre (see descend) on analogy of French nouns such as attente from attendre "to expect," vente "sale" from vendre "to sell," pente "slope" from pendre "to hang" (the etymological English word from Latin would be *descence).

Figurative use is from late 14c. Meaning "action of descending," also "a downward slope" is from 1590s. Meaning "act of descending from an ancestor" is from mid-14c. Evolutionary sense is from 1859 in Darwin, though there are uses which suggest essentially the same thing going back to 1630s.

1. When entering a trail or starting a descent, yield to other skiers.: 進入滑雪道或開始下滑時，要給其他滑雪者讓路。

3. The marriage was considered especially ignominious since she was of royal descent.: 由於她出身王族,這門婚事被認為是奇恥大辱.

4. We watched anxiously during her descent from the tree.: 麻豆成人午夜视频焦急地看著她從樹上爬下來.