Linguists try to study language descriptively, not prescriptively.语言学家们设法对语言进行描述性研究，而非规范性研究。Her writing is less descriptive, more ruminative.她的写作风格不是描述性，而是思索性的。The appeal in the pictures is undercut at times by what the artist writes about them.画作的感染力有时被艺术家的描述性文字所削弱。