described

柯林斯詞典

1. V-T If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened. 描述
We asked her to describe what kind of things she did in her spare time. 我們請她描述她在閑暇時(shí)做些什么。
She read a poem by Carver which describes their life together. 她讀了一首卡弗描寫他們在一起生活的詩。
2. V-T If a person describes someone or something as a particular thing, he or she believes that they are that thing and says so. 講成; 稱作
He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale. 他把它講成了一個(gè)格外錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的故事。
Even his closest allies describe him as forceful, aggressive, and determined. 甚至他最親密的同盟者們都說他強(qiáng)勢、好斗且堅(jiān)決。