describe的语法特点与搭配 1. 是及物动词,其后可以下形式的宾语: (1) 名词:http://yingyu.chazidian.com Words cannot describe her beauty. 言语无法形容她的美丽。 Please describe her wife. 请讲讲他的妻子。 Can you describe it to [for] me? 你能把它描述给我听听吗? (2) 疑问词引导的从句: Please describe what you saw. 请说说你所见到的情况(from http://yingyu.chazidian.com)。 They asked me to describe exactly how it happened. 他们要我把所发生的事情准确的描述出来。 2. 通常不能接双宾语,若语义需要,要用介词 to / for 来引出间接宾语: 你能将你所见到的情况描述给我听听吗? 正:Can you describe what you saw to [for] me? 正:Can you describe to [for] me what you saw? 误:Can you describe me what you saw? 3. “把…形容为 (说成是)…”,英语用describe…as…,在此结构中as之后可接名词、形容词或动名词等: He described himself as a doctor. 他自称是医生。 He was described as (being) very clever. 据说他很聪明。