词典编纂者的工作就是对语言加以描述。

A lexicographer's job is to describe the language.

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对他所作的描述简要、中肯。

The description which he had been given was brief and to the point.

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这本书以一段对夏威夷的冗长描述作结。

The book ends on a lengthy description of Hawaii.

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That's how this advertisement represents critics, even though it also invokes critics to describe what's powerful about the novel.

这就是广告对批评的描述，尽管如此,它还引述批评家的话来衬托小说的出色之处。

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It's first of all a depiction of an underworld, and so it provides Milton with an important Christian representation of a hell.

它首先是对地狱的一个描述，它为弥尔顿提供了,一个重要的基督教式的地狱的描绘。

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And,again,to us in the modern world, if you didn't already have some exposure to religious narratives like this,that would sound odd.

同样的，对现代人来说，如果没接触过这类宗教描述,可能会觉得奇怪。

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