vi.

1. 下來，下降[（+from）]
   You can ride the escalator up but have to descend on foot.

   你可以搭電梯上去，但要自己走下來。

2. 下傾，下斜
   The mountain path descends to the lake.

   山路下斜通向湖邊。

3. 傳下來，來自於[（+from）]
   The custom has descended to our day.

   這一習俗一直傳到今天。

4. 突然襲擊；突然拜訪[（+on/upon）]
   Bob and his girl friend descended on us for the weekend.

   鮑伯和他女友突然來我家過週末。

5. 屈尊；墮落[（+to）]
6. 為……的後裔[H][（+from）]
   He is descended from Confucius.

   他是孔子的後裔。

vt.

1. 走下；沿……向下

v.

1. move downwards.
   ▸(of a road or flight of steps) slope or lead down.
2. Music  become lower in pitch.
3. (descend on) make a sudden attack on or unwelcome visit to.
4. (be descended from) be a blood relative of (an ancestor).
   ▸ (often descend to) pass by inheritance.