Some expressions describe people who are important, or who at least think they are.

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If you read one of the websites that I like to look at, Psycho Palisades, and palisades describe the strong fence that protect you from being torn down.

如果你到我喜欢去的一个网站去看看，叫做心理护栏，护栏形容的是那些强大的篱笆,保护你不被打倒。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Her experience at this school, how would I, how would I describe that?

她在这个学校的生活，我该怎么描述呢？

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I thought I would describe forward rates in terms of the coffee hour at The London School of Economics in the '20s.

我也许应该用20年代伦敦政经,咖啡时间的情形来描述远期利率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We don't have to make up our minds in advance whether it was a real world or a completely fantastic one, but at least let's see if we can describe what world it looks like.

我们不必事先考虑这是一个,真实的抑或虚幻的世界,但至少要知道我们能否描述这个世界

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So Chapters 13 and 21 go on to describe the division of the land among the tribes and then we have some sort of tidying up at the end.

第13和21章继续描述了以色列的支派,在宗族间的支派，他们在最后又结合起来。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And then-- well,we'll at least try to describe it this way--he wakes up.

然后…,这么说好了，他醒来了。

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