represent

音标发音

• 英式音标 [reprɪ'zentˌreprɪ'zentˌreprɪˈzent]
• 美式音标 [ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt]
• 国际音标 [,repri'zent]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

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。

词根记忆

• re + present(出席)→作为…的代表；象征
• re + present(出席)→作为…的代表出席→代表
• re + present(出席)→代表出席→代表

同根派生

• adj性质的同根词

  representative：典型的，有代表性的；代议制的。

  representational：代表的；具象派的。

  representable：能被代表的；能上演的；能被描绘的。

• n性质的同根词

  representative：代表；典型；众议员。

  representation：代表；表现；表示法；陈述。

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用法辨析

v. (动词)

• 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”。

• represent使用方法
• represent详细辨析

英汉例句

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

• He will represent his school at the meeting.
  他将代表学校出席会议。

S+～+that-clause

• He represented that he had fought in the Huai Hai Campaign.
  他自称他参加过淮海战役。

用作双宾动词: represent to sb sth

• I'll represent to him the risk he is running.
  我要向他指出他所面临的险境。

represent sth to sb

• I can only represent it to you by metaphors.
  我只能用隐喻来向你描述它。

用作宾补动词: S+～+ n./pron. +as/to be n.

• He represented himself as an expert.
  他声称自己是一位专家。

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词组短语

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• 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

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• (ACT FOR) to speak, act, or be present officially for another person or people
• (DESCRIBE) to show or describe something or someone
• (BE) to be the result of something, or to be something

柯林斯英英字典

• If someone such as a lawyer or a politician represents a person, a group of people, or a place, they act on behalf of that person, group, or place.
• If you represent a person or group at an official event, you go there on their behalf.
• If you represent your country or city in a competition or sports event, you take part in it on behalf of the country or city where you live.
• If a group of people or things is well represented in a particular activity or in a particular place, a lot of them can be found there.
• If a sign or symbol represents something, it is accepted as meaning that thing.
• To represent an idea or quality means to be a symbol or an expression of that idea or quality.
• If you represent a person or thing as a particular thing, you describe them as being that thing.

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• represent柯林斯字典

专业释义

法学

• 重演

艺术学

• 体现

  Marriage and family are the most basic social form to represent the gender relationship.
  婚姻家庭是最能体现性别关系的社会基本形式。

  哲学

• 代现

心理学

• 表征

  It means they can represent countable and uncountable quantity with mental magnitude. They can perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
  种族进化史研究表明,动物具备算术能力,它们运用数量感来表征可数与不可数的数量,并以此为基础进行加法、减法、乘法和除法运算。

  计算机科学技术

• 表述

能源科学技术

• 代表