characterise

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美

v.  是…的特征, 以…为特征; 描述(人或物)的特性, 描绘

过去分词：characterised　第三人称单数：characterises　过去式：characterised　现在分词：characterising　

TEM8

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英英释义

verb

• describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
  1. You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist
  2. This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover
  Synonym:qualifycharacterize
• be characteristic of
  1. What characterizes a Venetian painting?
  Synonym:characterize

双语例句

• So many catastrophic events have struck the world in the past few weeks that a new phrase –" black swan fatigue"– has been coined to characterise the market reaction.
  过去几周发生了太多灾难性事件，以至于人们创造出了一个新词“黑天鹅疲劳”（blackswanfatigue）来描绘市场的反应。
• Nonetheless, such good manners do not characterise each and every holder of a British passport, as I'm sure anyone who's spent time in the UK would agree.
  然而，这样的举止并非是每个持英国护照的人的特征，而我也肯定每个在英国住过的人会同意我的观点。
• Towards the end of last year, I asked a man who works closely with business schools how he would characterise their attitude over the past year.
  去年底，我问一位与商学院有密切业务联系的男士，怎么形容商学院过去一年来的态度。
• Both world views characterise Hobsbawm, who wrote in the preface to his 1997 essay collection On History that facts provide the point from which historians must start, however far from it they may end.
  霍布斯鲍姆的独特之处在于他同时拥有这两种世界观。他在自己1997年的文集《论历史》（OnHistory）的序言中写道，史学家必须以（事实）为起点，无论他们最终会走多远。
• But if it is welcome that banks are pulling back from some me too trading activities, this will not in itself end the hard-driving short term culture that has come to characterise banking institutions.
  但尽管银行退出某些模仿交易活动令人欢迎，这种做法本身并不会终结银行业机构作风强硬的短期文化。
• How would you characterise the Chinese way of doing business?
  你会如何描述中国人做生意的方式？
• Such overseas interest in domestic Chinese bonds is expected to continue, say fund managers, because the yields available are far superior to those that characterise fixed-income opportunities in Europe, Japan and elsewhere in developed markets.
  基金管理公司称，由于中国债券的收益率远高于欧洲、日本及其他发达市场以固定收益机会为特点的债券，预计境外投资者对中国国内债券市场的兴趣将继续增加。
• New research programmes should characterise and use wild crop species to transfer genes for drought, flood and salinity tolerance into crops.
  新的研究项目应该描绘野生作物物种的特性并把它们的耐旱、耐洪水和耐盐碱的基因转移到作物中。
• But it is not too late for Mr Obama to transcend the social marketing values that seem to characterise his re-election campaign.
  但是，奥巴马要超越似乎是其连任竞选活动之特征的社会营销价值观，为时还不是太晚。
• The aim of the study was undertaken to better characterise and map the shallow stratigraphy and structure.
  此研究的目的是进一步弄清浅地层的结构，并绘制图形。