Edgar Allan Poe did something unusual for writers of his time: he used a narrator in a story to describe what was happening.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

As I say, it's the sort of thing that somebody from the medical school or a biologist or a physiologist or something could describe for us.

就像我说的,这就是一些,医学院的人,生物学家或生理学家,向我们描述的死亡

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You live in a dorm. Could you describe it for us?

你住在宿舍。能跟我们描述一下吗？

有趣的宿舍生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For example,the test taker is asked to read out loud or describe a picture.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Okay, now let's make this first battle I'm going to describe for you to be as clear cut as we can make it, and it probably never was like that.

好的 现在,让我们打响第一场战斗,我们做得尽量简洁些,也许事实上的战斗并非是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If you buy them popcorn, they'll describe things for you."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

I don't--I could describe you and start to think about you not as a person and language can be used for this.

我可以把你描述成，或想象成,不是一个人，而我可以利用语言做到这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

As officials describe it, they lost him for a time.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Can you describe this area for us?

你能为我们描述一下这个区域吗？

有各种各样的商铺 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Furlong used the word "bizarre" to describe the weather on Cypress Mountain for this time of year, and added that safety comes first.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

And I wanted to take a moment for perhaps you to describe some of the controversy that has been around your career.

我想请您在这里,给我们讲一下，您的职业生涯中,出现的一些争议。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"Astronauts who are accustomed to views that you and I cannot really describe were moved to tears when they looked out the windows of the cupola for the first time tonight."

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

But luckily for us, there's a classical equation of motion that will, in fact, describe how the electron and nucleus change position or change their radius as a function of time.

但幸运的是，有一个,经典方程描述了电子和核子,位置或者它们直接的距离是,如何随时间变化的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"We hope to receive entries that describe how specific innovations have improved the lives of women and girls,and proposals for how they can be scaled up and applied more broadly."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"We provide care for elderly people, for mothers to be, for newborn babies,for children, and we provide long-term care for certain groups of patients who have what we would describe as chronic illnesses,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

For that purpose, to describe that displacement, we use a vector.

在这种情况下,我们就用矢量来描述位移

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Two reports by the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC and the Office of the U.N.High Commissioner for Human Rights describe some particularly heinous crimes committed by rebel groups and Congolese armed forces.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

You can't come up with a number to describe the twenty-five standard deviation event; it's just too large a number, I think, for any of us to really comprehend.

你根本无法想出一个数字,来描述这个偏离25倍标准差的事件,对我们普通人来说,这是个难以想象的天文数字

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I saw all these ships waiting out there,I am guessing, waiting their turns to load and unload the cargo, so,I said,Why do the ships come into the harbor?" Why not have the harbor go out there and bring the goods in?'" Researchers describe the mobile harbor as a lean, light system for unloading container ships even if the coastal area is too shallow for them to dock.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04

Whatever the details might be, we could describe lives and say, whether or not their life was good as a whole, what the future holds out for them is negative.

不管详细情况是什么，我们可以把他们的生活形容为，不管他们一生的生活是否美好，他们的未来都是不容乐观的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, if I wanted to cause you to feel moral concern for a fetus, I would do well to describe it as a pre-born child.

所以如果我想你对胎儿产生道德关怀，我最好就称它为未出生的婴儿。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Let me describe him for you.

让我给你形容一下他。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选