descend: [13] Etymologically, descend means ‘climb down’. Like its opposite, ascend [14], it comes ultimately from Latin scandere ‘climb’, which also produced English scan and scansion and is related to echelon, escalate, scale ‘set of graduated marks’, scandal, and slander. The Latin verb was a product of the Indo-European base *skand- ‘jump’. => ascend, echelon, escalate, scale, scan, scandal, slander
descend (v.)
c. 1300, from Old French descendre (10c.) "descend, dismount; fall into; originate in," from Latin descendere "come down, descend, sink," from de- "down" (see de-) + scandere "to climb," from PIE root *skand- "jump" (see scan (v.)). Sense of "originate" is late 14c. in English. Related: Descended; descending.
雙語例句
1. She's got too much dignity to descend to writing anonymous letters.
她是個自尊心很強的人，絕不會自貶身份去寫匿名信。
來自柯林斯例句
2. As you descend, suddenly you see at last the hidden waterfall.
一直往下走，最終你會突然看到那條隱秘的瀑布。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar.
當我們往下走去地窖時，四周愈見陰冷潮濕。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The plane began to descend.
飛機開始降落。
來自《權威詞典》
5. If a prisoner is badly treated, he may descend to violence.