descent

[di'sent]

n.下降, 下坡, 家世, 血统, 侵袭, 衰落, 继承

n.

1. 下降; 下倾[U][C]

The spectators watched the descent of the balloon.

观看的人瞧着气球降落。

2. 下坡[C]

a steep descent

陡峭的坡道

3. 世系, 血统[U]

Many Americans are of English descent.

许多美国人有英国血统。

4. 遗传; 派生[U]

5. 衰落; 堕落[U][S1]

his descent into a life of crime

他沦落到靠犯罪为生

6. 屈尊; 降格[U][(+to)]

7. 袭击; 入侵[C][(+on/upon)]

The Danes made numerous descents upon the English coast during the 10th century.

丹麦人在十世纪曾对英国海岸发动过无数次袭击。

8. 【律】(遗产的)继承[U]

词形变化

名词复数：descents

词义辨析

同义:

n.下降

drop  fall  sinking  down-rush  subsidence  droop  trip  lowering  tumble  plunge  plummet  dive  decline

n.斜坡

slope  grade  gradient  decline  declivity  declination  downgrade  incline  inclination  ramp  down-stairway  downcast  slant

n.遗传, 血统

parentage  origin  roots  lineage  genealogy  heredity  filiation  pedigree  stock  line  blood  strain  extraction  ancestry  forefathers  family tree

n.屈尊降格

moral decline  degradation  debasement  abasement  fall from grace

n.袭击

assault  attack  pounce  swoop  onslaught  incursion  foray  sortie  raid  invasion  

同义参见:

strain  stem  tree  nationality  down  

反义:

n.下降; 下坡

ascent  

英英释义

名词 descent:

a movement downward

properties attributable to your ancestry

同义词：origin, extraction

the act of changing your location in a downward direction

the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

同义词：line of descent, lineage, filiation

a downward slope or bend

同义词：declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope

the descendants of one individual

同义词：lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

补充

descentdescent英:[diˈsent] 美:[dɪˈsɛnt]n.1.下降, 降下; 沦落We watched anxiously during her descent from the tree.我们焦急地看着她从树上爬下来。2.下坡The descent of the mountain took two hours.下山花了两个小时。3.血统, 出身, 门第She is of German descent.她祖籍是德国。

例句

1. The descent was made difficult by bad weather.由于天气恶劣, 下山的路很难走。 2. the crash of an aircraft on its descent into Kathmandu airport飞机在加德满都机场降落时的坠毁 3. He watched an aircraft making its descent.他看到一架飞机的降落过程。 4. On the descents, cyclists speed past the cars.在下坡道上, 自行车手飞驰着超越了一辆辆汽车。 5. Our family can claim royal descent.我们家族可以说有贵族血统。 6. All the men were of European descent.所有男子都有欧洲血统。 7. Many of the natives can trace their descent to the Russians who settled here in the 1800s.很多当地居民的祖先都可以追溯到19世纪定居在这里的俄国人。 8. the club's dramatic descent from top to second-bottom in the first division.该俱乐部从甲级联赛第一名到倒数第二名的惊人退步 9. This only accelerated the country's descent into chaos.这却使该国更快地陷入混乱之中。 10. the days when thousands of hobnailed boots heralded the descent of workers to the Clyde shipyards成千上万的钉靴预示着工人们涌入克莱德船厂的那些日子 11. The enemy might make a descent on Greece.敌军可能会突袭希腊。 12. the plane had gone into a steep descent.飞机陡然下降。 13. a steep, badly eroded descent.陡峭而且已被严重侵蚀的坡道。 14. the ancient empire's slow descent into barbarism.古代帝国慢慢没落至野蛮状态的过程。 15. most of the settlers were of Cornish descent.大多数移民都来自康沃尔地方。 16. a descent on the Channel ports.突袭英吉利海峡诸港。 17. The pilot informed us that we were about to begin our descent.机长通知我们说快要开始降落。 18. The climbers were faced with a dangerous descent in bad weather.登山者在恶劣天气下山有危险。 19. the submarine's descent潜水艇下降 20. "After only an hour of flight, the pilot announced our descent."仅仅飞行一小时后，飞行员便宣布飞机即将降落。 21. The book describes his descent into a deep depression after the death of his wife.这本书描述了他丧偶后陷入低落状态。 22. her slow descent to a life of addiction她慢慢陷入吸毒成瘾的生活之中 23. "The only path that goes down to the river is a rather steep descent, so be careful."这条通向河边的唯一的小路是条很陡的坡道，要多加小心。 24. Many people in this area are of German descent. [=ancestry]这个地区许多人都是德国后裔。 25. "They claim to be of royal descent. [=they say that their ancestors were kings, queens, etc.]"他们声称拥有王室血统。