characterize 核心詞議：
vt. 描繪……的特性；具有……的特征
vi. 塑造人物
characterize 基本解釋
vt. 描述（人或物）的特性；具有…的特征
vi. 塑造人物
速記方法
速記技巧
詞源詞根法
【結構分析】characterize=character（特征）+ize（動詞后綴）→描繪=【衍生詞】characterization（描繪、刻畫）
知識擴展
characterize 變化形式
第三人稱單數： characterizes
過去式： characterized
過去分詞： characterized
現在分詞： characterizing
中文詞源：
characterize
精選例句
1、 How do you characterize the leadership style?
你如何刻劃領導層的類型？
2、 The piercing cries of the rhinoceros hornbill characterize the Southeast Asian rain forest, as do the unmistakable calls of the gibbons.
犀鳥刺耳的鳴叫，和長臂猿那不會被認錯的叫聲，象征著東南亞雨林。
1、 Yet, when we speak of people from elsewhere, we seem to inevitably characterize them based on their country of origin.
然而，當我們談到來自其他地方的人時，我們似乎不可避免地根據他們的原籍國來描述他們。
常見考點例句：
- Google representatives declined to characterize the bill as any kind of legislative victory , saying they still had concerns about it .
- google代表拒絕將此法案描述為該公司在立法方面的任何一種勝利，他們表示仍然有些擔憂。
- Other key themes have been what exactly happened during the transition from communism and how to characterize the country 's post-soviet economy .
- 其他關鍵主題多集中于俄羅斯自共產主義轉軌中經歷了幾多風雨，以及如何描述這個國家在后蘇聯時代的經濟。
- He believes " a saw-toothed advance " will characterize a recovery this autumn .
- 他認為今年秋季的復蘇將以“鋸齒式前進”為特征。
- Moreover reflexivity and fallibility are not confined to the financial markets ; they also characterize other spheres of social life , particularly politics .
- 此外，反身性和易謬性并不局限于金融市場，也是其他社會生活范疇中的特點，特別是政治。
- My interest in the psychology of accidents has been rekindled by a recent project in which I am involved that attempts to characterize the psychological risk factors for suicide among us soldiers .
- 近期的一個項目重新激發起了我對意外事故心理學的興趣，我參與其中，嘗試描繪出導致美國士兵中自殺的心理上的風險因素。