For example, the word circus is used to describe any noisy place with a lot of activities going on.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Mythology is used to describe stories that deal with The birth, the life events of gods and demi-gods, sometimes legendary heroes, but narrating a sequence of events.

神话是指一些这样的故事,它们有关神或者半人半神的诞生及生平，也有时候是一些传奇英雄，讲述他们的一系列事迹。

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And these are all spoken of in terms that are analogous to terms used to describe God as the shepherd of his flock of Israel and in control of life and death and so on.

这些说到的过程,和对于上帝的形容相类似，我们形容上帝为,他的“以色列族群的牧羊人“,控制着他们的生死。

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But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

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。

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The word comes from the word "Arab" and is a design term used to describe flowing lines and geometric patterns.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Before we talk about how to do it-- and we don't have perfect ways to do it yet but I'll describe some of the ways that are used, I want to talk just briefly on this slide about what the goals for gene therapy might be.

在讲具体怎么做之前--,现在还没有任何一种方法是完美的,但我还是要讲讲一些已经应用的方法,我借助这张幻灯片简要介绍一下,基因治疗的可能目标

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The term today most often is used to describe a powerful machine designed to clear away trees and other big objects.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

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"Terroir" is the word used to describe how a vineyard's soil and climate give a wine special qualities.

VOA: special.2010.10.13

The expression may be used to describe a politician's last campaign, his final attempt to win the cheers and votes of the people.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

It was used to describe members of Congress who declared war on Britain in eighteen twelve.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Kingpin is often used to describe an important criminal, or the leader of a criminal gang.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Yet the expression also can be used to describe the top person in any area.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

The word kick sometimes is used to describe a complaint or some kind of dissatisfaction.

VOA: special.2011.06.05

This term was soon used to describe army supplies in general that were government issue.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

Green is also the color used to describe the powerful emotion, jealousy.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Dog expressions also are used to describe the weather.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

In seventeen ninety-seven, the Independent Chronicle newspaper used the word to describe a politician the paper supported.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

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

The expression was first used in the southern part of the United States to describe the use of force to win an election.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

It is used sometimes to describe a political move that leads to an unexpected win.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

After the American Civil War in the eighteen sixties, a writer in a publication called Beadles Monthly used the word doughboy to describe Civil War soldiers.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

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