1. 是及物动词，其后可以下形式的宾语：

(1) 名词：

Words cannot describe her beauty. 言语无法形容她的美丽。

Please describe her wife. 请讲讲他的妻子。

Can you describe it to [for] me? 你能把它描述给我听听吗?

(2) 疑问词引导的从句：

Please describe what you saw. 请说说你所见到的情况(from www.yygrammar.com)。

They asked me to describe exactly how it happened. 他们要我把所发生的事情准确的描述出来。

2. 通常不能接双宾语，若语义需要，要用介词 to / for 来引出间接宾语：

你能将你所见到的情况描述给我听听吗?

正：Can you describe what you saw to [for] me?

正：Can you describe to [for] me what you saw?

误：Can you describe me what you saw?

3. “把…形容为 (说成是)…”，英语用describe…as…，在此结构中as之后可接名词、形容词或动名词等：

He described himself as a doctor. 他自称是医生。

He was described as (being) very clever. 据说他很聪明。