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

• 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。
• The bribery, corruption, treachery and sheer desperate self-interest that characterise the practice are detailed in frank internal documents written by the organisation department in Jilin province.
  吉林省组织部的一份内部书面文件，坦率列举了这类交易中的贿赂、腐败、欺诈和不择手段的利己特征。
• But if the dollar does continue to rise, it would mark a very significant development given the pattern of trading that has tended to characterise the currency markets since the onset of the financial crisis.
  不过，考虑到金融危机爆发以来外汇市场一向的交易格局，如果美元继续走强，将标志着一个非常重大的变化。
• 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。
• A social structure represents some of the cultural aspects that characterise the relationships between the participants.
  社会结构代表着参与者之间关系的某些文化方面的特征。
• Additional data from infrared and X-ray telescopes can further characterise objects like active galactic nuclei and nuclear star formation by revealing what is unseen at visible wavelengths.
  来自红外和X线望远镜的更多数据能够深入了解天体的特性，比如活动星系核心和星暴区域核心这些可见光看不见的区域。
• This will be the first time THz technology has been used on cancer cells and it will also be developed to characterise genetic material.
  这将是超强辐射技术首次被用于杀死癌细胞而且以后还会用它来展示遗传物质的特性。
• 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。
• To what degree and in what way does international practice now characterise the profession of landscape architecture?
  国际实践能在多大程度上并用怎样的方式表现景观建筑行业的特色？
• 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。