represents
基本解释
- vt.表现;表示;描绘;代表;象征;说明;阐明
- vi.提出异议
词源解说
- 14世纪晚期进入英语,直接源自古法语的representer;最初源自拉丁语的reprsentare:re (强调) + prsentare (呈现,表达),意为表达,说明。
用法辨析
- represent的基本意思是“代表”,多指受委托代表某人、组织、机构、国家等办理某事。引申可指“象征”“体现”“表示”“描绘”“声称”“扮演”等。
- represent既可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,可接名词、代词、that从句作宾语;也可接双宾语,其间接宾语须由介词to引出。represent还可接以as短语充当补足语的复合宾语。
- 注意represent与delegate的意思区别:represent指“代表某人”。delegate指“委派某人”。He represented me at the meeting. 他代表我在会议上。He delegated me to the meeting. 他派我代表他去会议。
- represent有做“说明,阐明”的意思。He represented her to be an actress. 三句的意思相同,均表达“他说她是个女演员”的意思。
- present sb with sth指“将某物赠送某人”。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- He will represent his school at the meeting.
他将代表学校出席会议。 - He represented that he had fought in the Huai Hai Campaign.
他自称他参加过淮海战役。 - I'll represent to him the risk he is running.
我要向他指出他所面临的险境。 - I can only represent it to you by metaphors.
我只能用隐喻来向你描述它。 - He represented himself as an expert.
他声称自己是一位专家。
用作动词 (v.)
用作及物动词: S+~+ n./pron.
S+~+that-clause
用作双宾动词: represent to sb sth
represent sth to sb
用作宾补动词: S+~+ n./pron. +as/to be n.
词组短语
- represent an animal 扮演一个动物
- represent one 's school 代表学校
- represent many countries 代表许多国家
- represent Napoleon 扮演拿破仑
- represent the scene of a bumper harvest 描绘了丰收的景象