Definition of descent in English:

descent

noun dɪˈsɛntdəˈsɛnt

1usually in singular An act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling.
下降，下落
the plane had gone into a steep descent
飞机陡然下降。
Example sentencesExamples
- What I thought was a straightforward descent turned horrific.
- The descent and ascent should both be at the same moderate pace.
- After the steepest descent I have ever ridden to this day, it was a short ride up the valley to the lodge where hot dinner was waiting.
- The images sent back to Earth partially overlap, due to the probe's rotation during the descent and due to the overlap between the fields of view of the different cameras.
- It was while glancing back that he took a fall and twisted his ankle on the final descent and came back into the finishing field with bloodied knees.
- Carefully, she started a gradual, painstaking descent to the frothing ocean below.
- After a quick tour of the mine facilities, the party re-boarded the little train, sans locomotive, for the descent was to be made by gravity.
- Prior to the final touch down, the spacecraft shuts down the propulsion engine and enters into a free fall descent.
- Then began the slow cold descent into darkness.
- The two climbers, then in their 20s, did reach the summit, but after a fall on the descent, Thomas suffered a severe leg injury.
- He said the incident could have been quite serious, as the night turned cold and heavy rain began to fall during the descent.
- Resist the pull of the gravity on the descent and force the weight to move slowly back to the start.
- I knew I could get the better of him on the descent even though I fell a number of times.
- During the descent, four members of his group fell to their deaths.
- During descent, you should gently equalize your ears and mask.
- The descent was fast, steep, and playfully technical in parts.
- Upon pulling them on, I started my slow descent down the stairs.
- Gunter is careful to control the descent on this movement so he doesn't overstretch his shoulders.
- By the time the steepest descent is over my arms are hurting, but we haven't stopped and it's not over yet.
- The idea is to prevent my back from arching and my legs from dropping during the descent.
Synonyms
going down, coming down
drop, fall, sinking, subsiding
dive, pitch, slump
downward climb, descending
1. 1.1 A downward slope.
  a steep, badly eroded descent
  陡峭而且已被严重侵蚀的坡道。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Arthur's Pass is 920 metres above sea level, and there is a steep descent to Otira in the west.
  From there, a steep descent drops to a high and rocky col, from where very rocky ground leads to the summit and some of the widest views I've seen for months.
  With the skill of a veteran mountaineer, he masterfully accomplishes this task while going down a steep descent.
  Anyone driving north on the N2 this week should keep their eyes peeled just before the steep descent to the old bridge.
  We arrive at a steep descent and he suggests I engage Hill Descent Control, an electronic system that automatically controls the speed of the vehicle as it descends.
  The descent drops straight into the sump with no place to rest.
  It is the steepest descent on the course, and runs for nearly 2 miles.
  The descent was not steep at all and I could go down there as well as anyone.
  From there a steep descent north took us to the edge of another plantation where a well-used footpath dropped down through the trees to a broad track.
  From the steep descent he turned aside into the deer path by which he had come, and when he reached the beach he paused and turned, raising his eyes up the length of the waterfall to where he thought the rock and the pool might be.
  Sheep grazed the slopes above them; the descent to the shore ended in a farmyard.
  The showers before and during the race made the very steep descents a real challenge.
  The snow-topped, ice clad giants offer refuge from the daily grind in the form of miles of skiable slopes and long descents.
  The descent is much steeper at only 20 km, with some fast bends at the top changing to tight hairpins at the bottom.
  Eventually with the sun fading and the wind rising we found a steep descent down to pale limestone and black rabbits, and back at the campsite lots more tents.
  The track rolled down a steep descent and then gathered itself again in tight knots and ruts which led us through a long, spreading puddle to an estate gate.
  Synonyms
  slope, incline, dip, drop, gradient, declivity, declination, slant, downslope, hill
2. 1.2 A moral, social, or psychological decline.
  没落；堕落
  the ancient empire's slow descent into barbarism
  古代帝国慢慢蜕变至野蛮状态的过程。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It reminded me of the descent into cynicism about politics that I still haven't completely shaken.
  It is an overwhelming, confusing, meandering descent into seasonal decline.
  The absence of any semblance of discipline is to blame for this descent into moral turpitude.
  The only alternative to denying responsibility appears to be a complete loss of control - a descent into chaos.
  The structural underfunding which caused the gradual descent into debt has not been addressed, although clearly the hope is that there will be some future rectification.
  This descent into enmity is not just one party's fault.
  It is a small effort worth making if we want to avoid a descent into widespread anarchy, terrorism, pandemics of global disease, and other avoidable calamities.
  Miranda's claims of innocence are seen by her friends, colleagues and former patients as the beginnings of a deep descent into madness.
  But the sadder scenes were the ones where they shut him in front of a large screen and played him highlights of his career, and excerpts of news footage chronicling the descent into tragedy.
  But wait - the nightmarish descent into the blind refusal of personal responsibility continues apace.
  Despite valiant efforts from the cast, the two hours that follow it prove to be nothing more than a descent into the quicksand of mediocrity.
  The results are a partial empirical accounting of the ideological developments accompanying the descent into civil war.
  How can the working class, faced with this crisis, defend its social and democratic rights and prevent a descent into war and barbarism?
  But even they can't entirely salvage the mixture from a gradual descent into mediocrity.
  The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness.
  The result has been an unintended descent into confusion.
  The outcome will be a sexual identity free-for-all, and a further descent into a moral vacuum.
  However, the descent into savagery is opposed by many of the children, recognising it as a construct imposed from above by adults.
  In the process he drove himself to exhaustion, and began a tragic descent into paranoia and self-destruction.
  It is slightly worrying that I should become obsessed with this again and I think it may signal a descent into nervous break-down.
  Synonyms
  degeneration, degeneracy, deterioration, decline, sinking, slide, fall, drop, regression, retrogression, debasement, degradation, comedown
2mass noun The origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality.
血统，家世，门第
the settlers were of Cornish descent
大多数移民都来自康沃尔地方。
Example sentencesExamples
- Many others throughout the kingdom assert patrilineal descent from eponymous ancestors from ancient Arab tribes.
- People of African American descent often face challenges when they try to trace their ancestors.
- Many families of Luxembourger descent today also include traditions from the more mainstream Anglo- and German-American cultures.
- Rather, we can entertain common descent from multiple ancestors.
- A few girls of African American descent were sitting on the front porch.
- In the United States, however, only people of Asian Indian descent have retained their unique cultural dress.
- Their rulers claimed descent from a common ancestor.
- The term ‘dynasty’ refers to a succession of kings belonging to one line of family descent.
- Indeed, common place of origin is often connected with genos, one's origins by common descent and parentage.
- Partly Spanish by ancestry, he claimed descent on his father's side from the Scottish monarchy.
- I had a school friend whose family traced their descent and their identity even further, back to William the Conqueror.
- This story celebrates the families of African descent in North America and the transitions of children spending summers with their elders.
- Clans are created through common descent from a shared male ancestor.
- They possessed significantly more knowledge of Irish politics and history than those claiming no Irish descent.
- About 40 % can trace an Italian descent, although Spain is considered the mother country.
- Umbilical hernias occur more often in premature infants and those of African American descent.
- In these societies, descent is traced through the female side of the family.
- These entries suggest that people of African origins or descent, although very much a minority, were not unusual in sixteenth-century London.
- Today in the United States alone, more than 40 million Americans claim some Irish descent.
- His mother was of Huguenot descent; his father died six months after his birth.
Synonyms
ancestry, parentage, ancestors, family
lineage, line, line of descent
extraction, origin, derivation, birth
genealogy, heredity, succession
stock, pedigree, blood, bloodline, strain
roots, origins, forefathers, antecedents
rare filiation, stirps
1. 2.1 The transmission of qualities, property, or privileges by inheritance.
  世袭；遗传
  Example sentencesExamples
  The civil status of slaves in Tennessee, as well as in other states in which slavery existed, was such as to disable them from inheriting or transmitting property by descent.
  Thus, at common law, an alien can acquire or take real or personal property under a will, and may acquire or take personal property by descent.
  An estate is either ancestral or nonancestral; or, as this court says, there are two modes of acquiring title to property, one by descent or inheritance and the other by purchase or by the act or agreement of the parties.
  Synonyms
  inheritance, passing down/on, succession
3descent onA sudden violent attack.
突袭
a descent on the Channel ports
对英吉利海峡诸港的突袭。
Example sentencesExamples
- He first provided against a sudden descent upon the city by rebuilding the walls of Rome, which remain to this day and are known as the walls of Aurelian.
- Any sort of significant expedition meant risking defeat in the field, or a sudden descent on Damietta and loss of the city.
- We hear of ambushes, sudden descents on armies still in marching column, and enemies taken by surprise as a result of sudden forced marches, stealthy changes of position, deceptive signals, and deliberate misinformation.
- A sudden descent by a Roumanian army into Transylvania on August 30th was hailed as the harbinger of further successes.
Synonyms
attack, assault, raid, onslaught, charge, thrust, push, drive, incursion, foray, sortie, sally, storming, assailing
1. 3.1 An unexpected visit.
  his descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit
  Example sentencesExamples
  A section of patrolmen made a sudden and unexpected descent upon an alleged gambling hell.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French descente, from descendre 'to descend' (see descend).

Definition of descent in US English:

descent

noundəˈsentdəˈsɛnt

1usually in singular An action of moving downward, dropping, or falling.
下降，下落
the plane had gone into a steep descent
飞机陡然下降。
Example sentencesExamples
- Upon pulling them on, I started my slow descent down the stairs.
- The images sent back to Earth partially overlap, due to the probe's rotation during the descent and due to the overlap between the fields of view of the different cameras.
- The descent and ascent should both be at the same moderate pace.
- He said the incident could have been quite serious, as the night turned cold and heavy rain began to fall during the descent.
- By the time the steepest descent is over my arms are hurting, but we haven't stopped and it's not over yet.
- Gunter is careful to control the descent on this movement so he doesn't overstretch his shoulders.
- After a quick tour of the mine facilities, the party re-boarded the little train, sans locomotive, for the descent was to be made by gravity.
- What I thought was a straightforward descent turned horrific.
- Resist the pull of the gravity on the descent and force the weight to move slowly back to the start.
- During descent, you should gently equalize your ears and mask.
- Carefully, she started a gradual, painstaking descent to the frothing ocean below.
- Prior to the final touch down, the spacecraft shuts down the propulsion engine and enters into a free fall descent.
- After the steepest descent I have ever ridden to this day, it was a short ride up the valley to the lodge where hot dinner was waiting.
- It was while glancing back that he took a fall and twisted his ankle on the final descent and came back into the finishing field with bloodied knees.
- The idea is to prevent my back from arching and my legs from dropping during the descent.
- I knew I could get the better of him on the descent even though I fell a number of times.
- During the descent, four members of his group fell to their deaths.
- The descent was fast, steep, and playfully technical in parts.
- The two climbers, then in their 20s, did reach the summit, but after a fall on the descent, Thomas suffered a severe leg injury.
- Then began the slow cold descent into darkness.
Synonyms
going down, coming down
downward climb, descending
1. 1.1 A downward slope, especially a path or track.
  下行坡道
  a steep, badly eroded descent
  陡峭而且已被严重侵蚀的坡道。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The descent drops straight into the sump with no place to rest.
  Arthur's Pass is 920 metres above sea level, and there is a steep descent to Otira in the west.
  Eventually with the sun fading and the wind rising we found a steep descent down to pale limestone and black rabbits, and back at the campsite lots more tents.
  From the steep descent he turned aside into the deer path by which he had come, and when he reached the beach he paused and turned, raising his eyes up the length of the waterfall to where he thought the rock and the pool might be.
  From there, a steep descent drops to a high and rocky col, from where very rocky ground leads to the summit and some of the widest views I've seen for months.
  It is the steepest descent on the course, and runs for nearly 2 miles.
  The snow-topped, ice clad giants offer refuge from the daily grind in the form of miles of skiable slopes and long descents.
  Anyone driving north on the N2 this week should keep their eyes peeled just before the steep descent to the old bridge.
  The descent was not steep at all and I could go down there as well as anyone.
  The showers before and during the race made the very steep descents a real challenge.
  The track rolled down a steep descent and then gathered itself again in tight knots and ruts which led us through a long, spreading puddle to an estate gate.
  From there a steep descent north took us to the edge of another plantation where a well-used footpath dropped down through the trees to a broad track.
  We arrive at a steep descent and he suggests I engage Hill Descent Control, an electronic system that automatically controls the speed of the vehicle as it descends.
  The descent is much steeper at only 20 km, with some fast bends at the top changing to tight hairpins at the bottom.
  With the skill of a veteran mountaineer, he masterfully accomplishes this task while going down a steep descent.
  Sheep grazed the slopes above them; the descent to the shore ended in a farmyard.
  Synonyms
  slope, incline, dip, drop, gradient, declivity, declination, slant, downslope, hill
2. 1.2 A moral, social, or psychological decline into a specified undesirable state.
  没落；堕落
  the ancient empire's slow descent into barbarism
  古代帝国慢慢蜕变至野蛮状态的过程。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This descent into enmity is not just one party's fault.
  The outcome will be a sexual identity free-for-all, and a further descent into a moral vacuum.
  The structural underfunding which caused the gradual descent into debt has not been addressed, although clearly the hope is that there will be some future rectification.
  The absence of any semblance of discipline is to blame for this descent into moral turpitude.
  How can the working class, faced with this crisis, defend its social and democratic rights and prevent a descent into war and barbarism?
  It reminded me of the descent into cynicism about politics that I still haven't completely shaken.
  It is an overwhelming, confusing, meandering descent into seasonal decline.
  It is slightly worrying that I should become obsessed with this again and I think it may signal a descent into nervous break-down.
  The only alternative to denying responsibility appears to be a complete loss of control - a descent into chaos.
  But wait - the nightmarish descent into the blind refusal of personal responsibility continues apace.
  But the sadder scenes were the ones where they shut him in front of a large screen and played him highlights of his career, and excerpts of news footage chronicling the descent into tragedy.
  Miranda's claims of innocence are seen by her friends, colleagues and former patients as the beginnings of a deep descent into madness.
  Despite valiant efforts from the cast, the two hours that follow it prove to be nothing more than a descent into the quicksand of mediocrity.
  It is a small effort worth making if we want to avoid a descent into widespread anarchy, terrorism, pandemics of global disease, and other avoidable calamities.
  But even they can't entirely salvage the mixture from a gradual descent into mediocrity.
  However, the descent into savagery is opposed by many of the children, recognising it as a construct imposed from above by adults.
  The result has been an unintended descent into confusion.
  The results are a partial empirical accounting of the ideological developments accompanying the descent into civil war.
  In the process he drove himself to exhaustion, and began a tragic descent into paranoia and self-destruction.
  The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness.
  Synonyms
  degeneration, degeneracy, deterioration, decline, sinking, slide, fall, drop, regression, retrogression, debasement, degradation, comedown
2The origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality.
血统，家世，门第
American families of Hungarian descent
Example sentencesExamples
- Umbilical hernias occur more often in premature infants and those of African American descent.
- This story celebrates the families of African descent in North America and the transitions of children spending summers with their elders.
- Clans are created through common descent from a shared male ancestor.
- Today in the United States alone, more than 40 million Americans claim some Irish descent.
- Indeed, common place of origin is often connected with genos, one's origins by common descent and parentage.
- People of African American descent often face challenges when they try to trace their ancestors.
- They possessed significantly more knowledge of Irish politics and history than those claiming no Irish descent.
- His mother was of Huguenot descent; his father died six months after his birth.
- About 40 % can trace an Italian descent, although Spain is considered the mother country.
- Their rulers claimed descent from a common ancestor.
- In the United States, however, only people of Asian Indian descent have retained their unique cultural dress.
- Partly Spanish by ancestry, he claimed descent on his father's side from the Scottish monarchy.
- These entries suggest that people of African origins or descent, although very much a minority, were not unusual in sixteenth-century London.
- Rather, we can entertain common descent from multiple ancestors.
- In these societies, descent is traced through the female side of the family.
- Many others throughout the kingdom assert patrilineal descent from eponymous ancestors from ancient Arab tribes.
- I had a school friend whose family traced their descent and their identity even further, back to William the Conqueror.
- A few girls of African American descent were sitting on the front porch.
- The term ‘dynasty’ refers to a succession of kings belonging to one line of family descent.
- Many families of Luxembourger descent today also include traditions from the more mainstream Anglo- and German-American cultures.
Synonyms
ancestry, parentage, ancestors, family
1. 2.1 The transmission of qualities, property, or privileges by inheritance.
  世袭；遗传
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thus, at common law, an alien can acquire or take real or personal property under a will, and may acquire or take personal property by descent.
  An estate is either ancestral or nonancestral; or, as this court says, there are two modes of acquiring title to property, one by descent or inheritance and the other by purchase or by the act or agreement of the parties.
  The civil status of slaves in Tennessee, as well as in other states in which slavery existed, was such as to disable them from inheriting or transmitting property by descent.
  Synonyms
  inheritance, passing down, passing on, succession
3descent onA sudden violent attack.
突袭
a descent on the enemy airstrip
Example sentencesExamples
- Any sort of significant expedition meant risking defeat in the field, or a sudden descent on Damietta and loss of the city.
- A sudden descent by a Roumanian army into Transylvania on August 30th was hailed as the harbinger of further successes.
- We hear of ambushes, sudden descents on armies still in marching column, and enemies taken by surprise as a result of sudden forced marches, stealthy changes of position, deceptive signals, and deliberate misinformation.
- He first provided against a sudden descent upon the city by rebuilding the walls of Rome, which remain to this day and are known as the walls of Aurelian.
Synonyms
attack, assault, raid, onslaught, charge, thrust, push, drive, incursion, foray, sortie, sally, storming, assailing

Origin

Middle English: from Old French descente, from descendre ‘to descend’ (see descend).

词汇	descent
释义	Definition of descent in English: descent noun dɪˈsɛntdəˈsɛnt 1usually in singular An act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling. 下降，下落 the plane had gone into a steep descent 飞机陡然下降。 Example sentencesExamples What I thought was a straightforward descent turned horrific. The descent and ascent should both be at the same moderate pace. After the steepest descent I have ever ridden to this day, it was a short ride up the valley to the lodge where hot dinner was waiting. The images sent back to Earth partially overlap, due to the probe's rotation during the descent and due to the overlap between the fields of view of the different cameras. It was while glancing back that he took a fall and twisted his ankle on the final descent and came back into the finishing field with bloodied knees. Carefully, she started a gradual, painstaking descent to the frothing ocean below. After a quick tour of the mine facilities, the party re-boarded the little train, sans locomotive, for the descent was to be made by gravity. Prior to the final touch down, the spacecraft shuts down the propulsion engine and enters into a free fall descent. Then began the slow cold descent into darkness. The two climbers, then in their 20s, did reach the summit, but after a fall on the descent, Thomas suffered a severe leg injury. He said the incident could have been quite serious, as the night turned cold and heavy rain began to fall during the descent. Resist the pull of the gravity on the descent and force the weight to move slowly back to the start. I knew I could get the better of him on the descent even though I fell a number of times. During the descent, four members of his group fell to their deaths. During descent, you should gently equalize your ears and mask. The descent was fast, steep, and playfully technical in parts. Upon pulling them on, I started my slow descent down the stairs. Gunter is careful to control the descent on this movement so he doesn't overstretch his shoulders. By the time the steepest descent is over my arms are hurting, but we haven't stopped and it's not over yet. The idea is to prevent my back from arching and my legs from dropping during the descent. Synonyms going down, coming down drop, fall, sinking, subsiding dive, pitch, slump downward climb, descending 1.1 A downward slope. a steep, badly eroded descent 陡峭而且已被严重侵蚀的坡道。 Example sentencesExamples Arthur's Pass is 920 metres above sea level, and there is a steep descent to Otira in the west. From there, a steep descent drops to a high and rocky col, from where very rocky ground leads to the summit and some of the widest views I've seen for months. With the skill of a veteran mountaineer, he masterfully accomplishes this task while going down a steep descent. Anyone driving north on the N2 this week should keep their eyes peeled just before the steep descent to the old bridge. We arrive at a steep descent and he suggests I engage Hill Descent Control, an electronic system that automatically controls the speed of the vehicle as it descends. The descent drops straight into the sump with no place to rest. It is the steepest descent on the course, and runs for nearly 2 miles. The descent was not steep at all and I could go down there as well as anyone. From there a steep descent north took us to the edge of another plantation where a well-used footpath dropped down through the trees to a broad track. From the steep descent he turned aside into the deer path by which he had come, and when he reached the beach he paused and turned, raising his eyes up the length of the waterfall to where he thought the rock and the pool might be. Sheep grazed the slopes above them; the descent to the shore ended in a farmyard. The showers before and during the race made the very steep descents a real challenge. The snow-topped, ice clad giants offer refuge from the daily grind in the form of miles of skiable slopes and long descents. The descent is much steeper at only 20 km, with some fast bends at the top changing to tight hairpins at the bottom. Eventually with the sun fading and the wind rising we found a steep descent down to pale limestone and black rabbits, and back at the campsite lots more tents. The track rolled down a steep descent and then gathered itself again in tight knots and ruts which led us through a long, spreading puddle to an estate gate. Synonyms slope, incline, dip, drop, gradient, declivity, declination, slant, downslope, hill 1.2 A moral, social, or psychological decline. 没落；堕落 the ancient empire's slow descent into barbarism 古代帝国慢慢蜕变至野蛮状态的过程。 Example sentencesExamples It reminded me of the descent into cynicism about politics that I still haven't completely shaken. It is an overwhelming, confusing, meandering descent into seasonal decline. The absence of any semblance of discipline is to blame for this descent into moral turpitude. The only alternative to denying responsibility appears to be a complete loss of control - a descent into chaos. The structural underfunding which caused the gradual descent into debt has not been addressed, although clearly the hope is that there will be some future rectification. This descent into enmity is not just one party's fault. It is a small effort worth making if we want to avoid a descent into widespread anarchy, terrorism, pandemics of global disease, and other avoidable calamities. Miranda's claims of innocence are seen by her friends, colleagues and former patients as the beginnings of a deep descent into madness. But the sadder scenes were the ones where they shut him in front of a large screen and played him highlights of his career, and excerpts of news footage chronicling the descent into tragedy. But wait - the nightmarish descent into the blind refusal of personal responsibility continues apace. Despite valiant efforts from the cast, the two hours that follow it prove to be nothing more than a descent into the quicksand of mediocrity. The results are a partial empirical accounting of the ideological developments accompanying the descent into civil war. How can the working class, faced with this crisis, defend its social and democratic rights and prevent a descent into war and barbarism? But even they can't entirely salvage the mixture from a gradual descent into mediocrity. The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness. The result has been an unintended descent into confusion. The outcome will be a sexual identity free-for-all, and a further descent into a moral vacuum. However, the descent into savagery is opposed by many of the children, recognising it as a construct imposed from above by adults. In the process he drove himself to exhaustion, and began a tragic descent into paranoia and self-destruction. It is slightly worrying that I should become obsessed with this again and I think it may signal a descent into nervous break-down. Synonyms degeneration, degeneracy, deterioration, decline, sinking, slide, fall, drop, regression, retrogression, debasement, degradation, comedown 2mass noun The origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality. 血统，家世，门第 the settlers were of Cornish descent 大多数移民都来自康沃尔地方。 Example sentencesExamples Many others throughout the kingdom assert patrilineal descent from eponymous ancestors from ancient Arab tribes. People of African American descent often face challenges when they try to trace their ancestors. Many families of Luxembourger descent today also include traditions from the more mainstream Anglo- and German-American cultures. Rather, we can entertain common descent from multiple ancestors. A few girls of African American descent were sitting on the front porch. In the United States, however, only people of Asian Indian descent have retained their unique cultural dress. Their rulers claimed descent from a common ancestor. The term ‘dynasty’ refers to a succession of kings belonging to one line of family descent. Indeed, common place of origin is often connected with genos, one's origins by common descent and parentage. Partly Spanish by ancestry, he claimed descent on his father's side from the Scottish monarchy. I had a school friend whose family traced their descent and their identity even further, back to William the Conqueror. This story celebrates the families of African descent in North America and the transitions of children spending summers with their elders. Clans are created through common descent from a shared male ancestor. They possessed significantly more knowledge of Irish politics and history than those claiming no Irish descent. About 40 % can trace an Italian descent, although Spain is considered the mother country. Umbilical hernias occur more often in premature infants and those of African American descent. In these societies, descent is traced through the female side of the family. These entries suggest that people of African origins or descent, although very much a minority, were not unusual in sixteenth-century London. Today in the United States alone, more than 40 million Americans claim some Irish descent. His mother was of Huguenot descent; his father died six months after his birth. Synonyms ancestry, parentage, ancestors, family lineage, line, line of descent extraction, origin, derivation, birth genealogy, heredity, succession stock, pedigree, blood, bloodline, strain roots, origins, forefathers, antecedents rare filiation, stirps 2.1 The transmission of qualities, property, or privileges by inheritance. 世袭；遗传 Example sentencesExamples The civil status of slaves in Tennessee, as well as in other states in which slavery existed, was such as to disable them from inheriting or transmitting property by descent. Thus, at common law, an alien can acquire or take real or personal property under a will, and may acquire or take personal property by descent. An estate is either ancestral or nonancestral; or, as this court says, there are two modes of acquiring title to property, one by descent or inheritance and the other by purchase or by the act or agreement of the parties. Synonyms inheritance, passing down/on, succession 3descent onA sudden violent attack. 突袭 a descent on the Channel ports 对英吉利海峡诸港的突袭。 Example sentencesExamples He first provided against a sudden descent upon the city by rebuilding the walls of Rome, which remain to this day and are known as the walls of Aurelian. Any sort of significant expedition meant risking defeat in the field, or a sudden descent on Damietta and loss of the city. We hear of ambushes, sudden descents on armies still in marching column, and enemies taken by surprise as a result of sudden forced marches, stealthy changes of position, deceptive signals, and deliberate misinformation. A sudden descent by a Roumanian army into Transylvania on August 30th was hailed as the harbinger of further successes. Synonyms attack, assault, raid, onslaught, charge, thrust, push, drive, incursion, foray, sortie, sally, storming, assailing 3.1 An unexpected visit. his descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit Example sentencesExamples A section of patrolmen made a sudden and unexpected descent upon an alleged gambling hell. Origin Middle English: from Old French descente, from descendre 'to descend' (see descend). Definition of descent in US English: descent noundəˈsentdəˈsɛnt 1usually in singular An action of moving downward, dropping, or falling. 下降，下落 the plane had gone into a steep descent 飞机陡然下降。 Example sentencesExamples Upon pulling them on, I started my slow descent down the stairs. The images sent back to Earth partially overlap, due to the probe's rotation during the descent and due to the overlap between the fields of view of the different cameras. The descent and ascent should both be at the same moderate pace. He said the incident could have been quite serious, as the night turned cold and heavy rain began to fall during the descent. By the time the steepest descent is over my arms are hurting, but we haven't stopped and it's not over yet. Gunter is careful to control the descent on this movement so he doesn't overstretch his shoulders. After a quick tour of the mine facilities, the party re-boarded the little train, sans locomotive, for the descent was to be made by gravity. What I thought was a straightforward descent turned horrific. Resist the pull of the gravity on the descent and force the weight to move slowly back to the start. During descent, you should gently equalize your ears and mask. Carefully, she started a gradual, painstaking descent to the frothing ocean below. Prior to the final touch down, the spacecraft shuts down the propulsion engine and enters into a free fall descent. After the steepest descent I have ever ridden to this day, it was a short ride up the valley to the lodge where hot dinner was waiting. It was while glancing back that he took a fall and twisted his ankle on the final descent and came back into the finishing field with bloodied knees. The idea is to prevent my back from arching and my legs from dropping during the descent. I knew I could get the better of him on the descent even though I fell a number of times. During the descent, four members of his group fell to their deaths. The descent was fast, steep, and playfully technical in parts. The two climbers, then in their 20s, did reach the summit, but after a fall on the descent, Thomas suffered a severe leg injury. Then began the slow cold descent into darkness. Synonyms going down, coming down downward climb, descending 1.1 A downward slope, especially a path or track. 下行坡道 a steep, badly eroded descent 陡峭而且已被严重侵蚀的坡道。 Example sentencesExamples The descent drops straight into the sump with no place to rest. Arthur's Pass is 920 metres above sea level, and there is a steep descent to Otira in the west. Eventually with the sun fading and the wind rising we found a steep descent down to pale limestone and black rabbits, and back at the campsite lots more tents. From the steep descent he turned aside into the deer path by which he had come, and when he reached the beach he paused and turned, raising his eyes up the length of the waterfall to where he thought the rock and the pool might be. From there, a steep descent drops to a high and rocky col, from where very rocky ground leads to the summit and some of the widest views I've seen for months. It is the steepest descent on the course, and runs for nearly 2 miles. The snow-topped, ice clad giants offer refuge from the daily grind in the form of miles of skiable slopes and long descents. Anyone driving north on the N2 this week should keep their eyes peeled just before the steep descent to the old bridge. The descent was not steep at all and I could go down there as well as anyone. The showers before and during the race made the very steep descents a real challenge. The track rolled down a steep descent and then gathered itself again in tight knots and ruts which led us through a long, spreading puddle to an estate gate. From there a steep descent north took us to the edge of another plantation where a well-used footpath dropped down through the trees to a broad track. We arrive at a steep descent and he suggests I engage Hill Descent Control, an electronic system that automatically controls the speed of the vehicle as it descends. The descent is much steeper at only 20 km, with some fast bends at the top changing to tight hairpins at the bottom. With the skill of a veteran mountaineer, he masterfully accomplishes this task while going down a steep descent. Sheep grazed the slopes above them; the descent to the shore ended in a farmyard. Synonyms slope, incline, dip, drop, gradient, declivity, declination, slant, downslope, hill 1.2 A moral, social, or psychological decline into a specified undesirable state. 没落；堕落 the ancient empire's slow descent into barbarism 古代帝国慢慢蜕变至野蛮状态的过程。 Example sentencesExamples This descent into enmity is not just one party's fault. The outcome will be a sexual identity free-for-all, and a further descent into a moral vacuum. The structural underfunding which caused the gradual descent into debt has not been addressed, although clearly the hope is that there will be some future rectification. The absence of any semblance of discipline is to blame for this descent into moral turpitude. How can the working class, faced with this crisis, defend its social and democratic rights and prevent a descent into war and barbarism? It reminded me of the descent into cynicism about politics that I still haven't completely shaken. It is an overwhelming, confusing, meandering descent into seasonal decline. It is slightly worrying that I should become obsessed with this again and I think it may signal a descent into nervous break-down. The only alternative to denying responsibility appears to be a complete loss of control - a descent into chaos. But wait - the nightmarish descent into the blind refusal of personal responsibility continues apace. But the sadder scenes were the ones where they shut him in front of a large screen and played him highlights of his career, and excerpts of news footage chronicling the descent into tragedy. Miranda's claims of innocence are seen by her friends, colleagues and former patients as the beginnings of a deep descent into madness. Despite valiant efforts from the cast, the two hours that follow it prove to be nothing more than a descent into the quicksand of mediocrity. It is a small effort worth making if we want to avoid a descent into widespread anarchy, terrorism, pandemics of global disease, and other avoidable calamities. But even they can't entirely salvage the mixture from a gradual descent into mediocrity. However, the descent into savagery is opposed by many of the children, recognising it as a construct imposed from above by adults. The result has been an unintended descent into confusion. The results are a partial empirical accounting of the ideological developments accompanying the descent into civil war. In the process he drove himself to exhaustion, and began a tragic descent into paranoia and self-destruction. The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness. Synonyms degeneration, degeneracy, deterioration, decline, sinking, slide, fall, drop, regression, retrogression, debasement, degradation, comedown 2The origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality. 血统，家世，门第 American families of Hungarian descent Example sentencesExamples Umbilical hernias occur more often in premature infants and those of African American descent. This story celebrates the families of African descent in North America and the transitions of children spending summers with their elders. Clans are created through common descent from a shared male ancestor. Today in the United States alone, more than 40 million Americans claim some Irish descent. Indeed, common place of origin is often connected with genos, one's origins by common descent and parentage. People of African American descent often face challenges when they try to trace their ancestors. They possessed significantly more knowledge of Irish politics and history than those claiming no Irish descent. His mother was of Huguenot descent; his father died six months after his birth. About 40 % can trace an Italian descent, although Spain is considered the mother country. Their rulers claimed descent from a common ancestor. In the United States, however, only people of Asian Indian descent have retained their unique cultural dress. Partly Spanish by ancestry, he claimed descent on his father's side from the Scottish monarchy. These entries suggest that people of African origins or descent, although very much a minority, were not unusual in sixteenth-century London. Rather, we can entertain common descent from multiple ancestors. In these societies, descent is traced through the female side of the family. Many others throughout the kingdom assert patrilineal descent from eponymous ancestors from ancient Arab tribes. I had a school friend whose family traced their descent and their identity even further, back to William the Conqueror. A few girls of African American descent were sitting on the front porch. The term ‘dynasty’ refers to a succession of kings belonging to one line of family descent. Many families of Luxembourger descent today also include traditions from the more mainstream Anglo- and German-American cultures. Synonyms ancestry, parentage, ancestors, family 2.1 The transmission of qualities, property, or privileges by inheritance. 世袭；遗传 Example sentencesExamples Thus, at common law, an alien can acquire or take real or personal property under a will, and may acquire or take personal property by descent. An estate is either ancestral or nonancestral; or, as this court says, there are two modes of acquiring title to property, one by descent or inheritance and the other by purchase or by the act or agreement of the parties. The civil status of slaves in Tennessee, as well as in other states in which slavery existed, was such as to disable them from inheriting or transmitting property by descent. Synonyms inheritance, passing down, passing on, succession 3descent onA sudden violent attack. 突袭 a descent on the enemy airstrip Example sentencesExamples Any sort of significant expedition meant risking defeat in the field, or a sudden descent on Damietta and loss of the city. A sudden descent by a Roumanian army into Transylvania on August 30th was hailed as the harbinger of further successes. We hear of ambushes, sudden descents on armies still in marching column, and enemies taken by surprise as a result of sudden forced marches, stealthy changes of position, deceptive signals, and deliberate misinformation. He first provided against a sudden descent upon the city by rebuilding the walls of Rome, which remain to this day and are known as the walls of Aurelian. Synonyms attack, assault, raid, onslaught, charge, thrust, push, drive, incursion, foray, sortie, sally, storming, assailing Origin Middle English: from Old French descente, from descendre ‘to descend’ (see descend).
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