vi.

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

   你可以搭电梯上去，但要自己走下来。

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

   山路下斜通向湖边。

3. 传下来，来自于[（+from）]
   The custom has descended to our day.

   这一习俗一直传到今天。

4. 突然袭击；突然拜访[（+on/upon）]
   Bob and his girl friend descended on us for the weekend.

   鲍勃和他女友突然来我家过周末。

5. 屈尊；堕落[（+to）]
6. 为……的后裔[H][（+from）]
   He is descended from Confucius.

   他是孔子的后裔。

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.