英 [dɪˈsend] 美 [dɪˈsend]
v. 下来，下降；下倾，下斜；降临，来临；（情绪、气氛等）笼罩；突然到来，突然造访；降低身份，堕落；衰落，陷入；遗传
第三人称单数descends
现在分词descending
过去式descended
过去分词descended
descend /dɪˈsɛnd/ CET4 TEM4 [ descending descended descends ]
及物动词/不及物动词 If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downward from a higher to a lower level. 下 (楼梯等); 下来
Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar.
我们往地窖中下得越深，里面就越冷、越潮湿。
不及物动词 If a large group of people arrive to see you, especially if their visit is unexpected or causes you a lot of work, you can say that they have descended on you. 突然到访
Some 3,000 city officials will descend on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to lobby for more money.
大约三千名市政官员将于周二突访美国国会山，为争取更多经费游说。
不及物动词 When you want to emphasize that the situation that someone is entering is very bad, you can say that they are descending into that situation. 陷入
He was ultimately overthrown and the country descended into chaos.
他最终被推翻，国家陷入了混乱。
不及物动词 If you say that someone descends to behaviour which you consider unacceptable, you are expressing your disapproval of the fact that they do it. 堕落
We're not going to descend to such methods.
我们不会堕落到使用这些方式的份上。
do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
同义词： condescend / deign
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On the other hand, when the remote sensor runs on orbit, its performance will gradually degenerate and MTF will gradually descend too.
另一方面，随着卫星遥感器在轨运行时间的增长，其性能会逐渐退化，MTF也会逐渐下降。
参考来源CBERS
后裔
后代
下行
(字母)下伸
8、冷库在较热的地方，不但冷却(cooling)效率(efficiency)会下降(descend)，有时还会损伤库板，另外，保证机组正常工作的周围温度（temperature)的范围(fàn wéi)是在35度以内。
中的descent, 是descend （下来，下降）的名词形式。此外，这个词还可以指“出身，血统”，如： a person of African descent 一个非洲血统的人；以及“袭击”，或“突然...
英语 ... depth n.深度；深厚；深处 descend vi.下来，下降；下倾 description n.描写，形容；种类 ...
descendant 下降的；祖传的
descending 下降的；下行的
descending 下降（descend的ing形式）
descent 除去…的气味；使…失去香味
The pilots were told to descend to 2-2,000 feet.
飞行员被告知要将飞机下降到2-2000英尺。
It expels gas to descend, and expels water from trim bladders to rise.
它通过排出气体来下降，并通过把水排出气囊来上升。
The plane began to descend.
飞机开始降落。
Blackbirds by the thousands can descend and devour newly dropped seeds.
VOA : standard.2010.06.17
In Genesis 6--I mean, the text you pointed out is a good one but even better, go look at Genesis 6 where you have these nephilim, these divine beings who descend to earth and they mate with female humans.
在《创世纪》的第六章，也就是你们指出来的很好的一章,去看，你们会看到这些伟大的神灵，这些神灵降临凡间，与人类女子结合。
旧约导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Now in 1644 when he wrote the Areopagitica, Milton may have forgotten that Spenser's Guyon did in fact descend in to hell without the help of his teacher, the palmer.
644年他在《论出版自由》中写道，弥尔顿可能忘记斯潘塞笔下的盖恩事实上是在,没有自己的老师朝圣者的帮助下进入贪神之洞的。
弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
I leave you alone for two minutes,and the wolves descend.
VOA : standard.other
The Under-20 World Cup draws only a fraction of the fans that the full World Cup will bring to South Africa, when hordes of supporters from 32 nations will descend on the southern end of the continent.
VOA : standard.2009.10.12
After all, seeing cool fish and colourful coral is the main reason divers descend below the surface.
Or whenever a party occurs on Facebook, a lone, half-deflated balloon could descend from the ceiling.
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Writing on Twitter, Mr Feliciano said that "Africans descend from an ancestry cursed by Noah".