Delineate

(verb.) describe in vivid detail.

(verb.) trace the shape of.

艾维斯编辑

• How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• There is a painful confusion in my brain, which refuses to delineate distinctly succeeding events. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• When mankind see that the happiness of states is only to be found in that image, will they be angry with us for attempting to delineate it? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Or that his nature, being such as we have delineated, is akin to the highest good? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Your words have delineated very prettily a graceful Apollo: he is present to your imagination,--tall, fair, blue- eyed, and with a Grecian profile. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was all general approbation and smoothness; nothing delineated or distinguished. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The expert architect and the two artists who assisted Tycho are delineated in the landscape and even in the setting sun in the top-most part of the painting, and in the decoration above. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The irregular movements given the galvanometer needle by the varying current are clearly delineated on the paper. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The passage to which I allude occurs in that part of her journal which delineates his character and his personal appearance. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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