describe的语法特点与搭配
1. 是及物动词，其后可以下形式的宾语：
(1) 名词：
Words cannot describe her beauty. 言语无法形容她的美丽。
Please describe her wife. 请讲讲他的妻子。
Can you describe it to [for] me? 你能把它描述给我听听吗?
(2) 疑问词引导的从句：
Please describe what you saw. 请说说你所见到的情况(from www.hxen.com)。
They asked me to describe exactly how it happened. 他们要我把所发生的事情准确的描述出来。
2. 通常不能接双宾语，若语义需要，要用介词 to / for 来引出间接宾语：
你能将你所见到的情况描述给我听听吗?
正：Can you describe what you saw to [for] me?
正：Can you describe to [for] me what you saw?
误：Can you describe me what you saw?
3. “把…形容为 (说成是)…”，英语用describe…as…，在此结构中as之后可接名词、形容词或动名词等：
He described himself as a doctor. 他自称是医生。
He was described as (being) very clever. 据说他很聪明。