核心畫面
You can picture description as using words to paint what something is like — so that a listener who cannot see it can still form the picture in their own mind.
可以想成「用話語把某樣東西的樣子畫出來」——說它長什麼樣、怎麼運作、發生了什麼，好讓沒親眼看到的人，也能在腦中拼出那…更多收起
可以想成「用話語把某樣東西的樣子畫出來」——說它長什麼樣、怎麼運作、發生了什麼，好讓沒親眼看到的人，也能在腦中拼出那個畫面。description 的兩個片語用法，都是從這個「用話描繪」的核心稍微一轉長出來的。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
descriptionnoun/dɪˈskɹɪpʃən/
- 1
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- give a verbal description of the events
- a realistic description
- 2
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- 3
A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.
- 4
biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyA scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
- The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA descriptive linguistic survey.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。