descents

英 [dɪˈsɛnts]

美 [dɪˈsɛnts]

n.  下降; 下倾; 斜坡; 坡道; 血统; 祖籍; 祖先; 出身
descent的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 下降;降落
  Adescentis a movement from a higher to a lower level or position.
  1. Sixteen of the youngsters set off for help, but during the descent three collapsed in the cold and rain.
     16 名年轻人出发去寻求帮助，但在下山过程中有 3 人因寒冷和大雨晕倒了。
  2. ...the crash of an Airbus A300 on its descent into Kathmandu airport.
     空客 A300 在加德满都机场降落时的坠毁
• N-COUNT 斜坡;斜面
  Adescentis a surface that slopes downwards, for example the side of a steep hill.
  1. On the descents, cyclists spin past cars, freewheeling downhill at tremendous speed.
     在坡道上，自行车手飞驰着超越了一辆辆汽车，靠着惯性一路疾冲下山。
• N-SING (形势的)恶化;(人的)堕落，沦落
  When you want to emphasize that a situation becomes very bad, you can talk about someone's or something'sdescentinto that situation.
  1. The only lasting solution lies in a political settlement. Without it, their descent into chaos will be guaranteed.
     唯一的长久之计是通过政治手段解决。否则，他们势必会陷入一片混乱。
  2. ...his swift descent from respected academic to struggling small businessman.
     他从一名受人尊敬的学者到一个度日艰难的小商人的瞬间沦落
• N-UNCOUNT 血统;家世;出身
  You usedescentto talk about a person's family background, for example their nationality or social status.
  1. All the contributors were of African descent.
     所有的撰稿人都是非裔人士。

双语例句

• Invitational Exhibition of World Excellent Graphic Design by Chinese Descents& Chinese Traditional Image and Modern Visual Design
  世界华人优秀平面设计作品邀请展&中国传统图形与现代视觉设计
• The enemy will not have strength to repeat such descents often.
  敌人没有经常进行这种空降的力量。
• Method of steepest descents and multi-frequency models in multiphonon transitions
  最陡下降法和多声子跃迁的多频模型
• Avoid steep ascents, descents or ramps wherever possible.
  尽可能避免较陡的上坡、下坡或斜坡。
• Spermatogonial stem cells ( SSCs) is the only kind of adult stem cell which can take hereditary informations to descents.
  精原干细胞（SpermatogonialStemcells，SSCs）足唯一能将遗传信息传递给后代的成体干细胞。
• The barrier function of intestinal tract always descents at different level after burned, including mechanical barrier, biologic barrier and immunologic barrier.
  烧伤后，肠道三大屏障功能均有不同程度下降，包括肠粘膜机械屏障破坏，出现粘膜糜烂及溃疡；
• Yanqing National Park, which has the only substantial mountain near Beijing, was chosen for Alpine skiing, which requires longer runs and steeper descents.
  延庆国家公园拥有北京附近唯一的一座大山，被选作高山滑雪项目的场地，因为这项运动需要较长的雪道和较陡的下坡。
• The results indicate that some factors, such as home-country's political system, economic scale, labor cost, lending cost, number of Chinese descents, geographic distance and bilateral trade, are important for FDI into China.
  实证分析结果表明，投资来源国的政治体制、经济规模、劳动力成本、借贷成本、华裔人数、与中国的距离和双边贸易流量是影响其对中国直接投资的主要因素。
• But it is more important not to think lies, or to slide into those mechanical and untruthful habits of thought which are so pleasant and so easy as descents to mental ineptitude.
  但是更重要的是不去想谎言，也不陷入那些无意识的和不诚实的思维习惯，这种思维习惯令他如此惬意和自在，就象沦为智力低能一样。
• This not only proves the conservation of the energy for generated elastic waves, but also mutually reflects that approximate expressions of wave fields obtained from the method of the steepest descents are correct.
  这不但证明了固体表面法向力条源激发弹性波时能量的守恒，而且也进一步映证了用稳相法得到的远场声场的正确性。