description
description
noun
beyond description
noun
- a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event
描述；描写；形容
people who had seen him were able to give a description.
见过他的人都能形容出他的模样来。
■[mass noun]the action of giving such a representation or account
描述；描写；形容（指动作）
teaching by demonstration and description.
通过演示和描述来教学。 - a sort, kind, or class of people or things
（人或物的）类别
it is laughably easy to buy drugs of all descriptions.
各类毒品都可买得，简直容易到了荒唐的程度。
beyond description
- to a great and astonishing extent
极其，无法形容
his face was swollen beyond description.
他的脸肿得无法形容。
- be so unusual or remarkable as to be impossible to describe
（因异乎寻常而）无法形容
the sheer scale of the Requiem defies description.
安魂弥撒的规模大得无法形容。
- late Middle English: via Old French from Latin descriptio(n-), from describere 'write down'
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