Downstairs Floor Ground Lower Building Down·Stairs House Noun
The word "downstairs" primarily functions as an adverb meaning towards or on a lower floor, and as an adjective describing something on a lower floor. It is also used as a noun to denote the lower floor(s) of a building.
The word "downstairs" is primarily used as an adverb to indicate movement towards or presence on a lower floor of a building. It can also be used as an adjective to describe something located on a lower floor, and as a noun referring to the lower floor(s) of a building.
[ADV 副词]往楼下;顺楼梯而下;至楼下 If you go downstairs in a building, you go down a staircase towards the ground floor.
[ADV after v]
Denise went downstairs and made some tea.
丹尼丝下楼泡了茶。
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[ADV 副词]在楼下 If something or someone is downstairs in a building, they are on the ground floor or on a lower floor than you.
[be ADV]
The telephone was downstairs in the entrance hall...
电话在楼下的门厅里。
Everybody was downstairs watching a movie.
大家都在楼下看电影。
...the woman who lives in the flat downstairs.
住在楼下公寓的女子
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[ADJ 形容词]在楼下的;在一楼的Downstairs means situated on the ground floor of a building or on a lower floor than you are.
[ADJ n]
She repainted the downstairs rooms and closed off the second floor.
她重新粉刷了楼下的房间,并把二楼封上了。
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[N-SING 单数名词]楼下;底层The downstairs of a building is its lower floor or floors.
[the N]
The downstairs of the two little houses had been entirely refashioned.
两栋小楼的底层已经彻底翻修过。
Oxford
down·stairs★/ˌdaʊnˈsteəz; NAmEˌdaʊnˈsterz/
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adverb★down the stairs; on or to a floor or a house or building lower than the one you are on, especially the one at ground level 顺楼梯而下;在楼下;往楼下◆She rushed downstairs and burst into the kitchen.她冲下楼闯进厨房。◆Wait downstairs in the hall.在楼下大厅里等着。OPP
upstairs
▶down·stairsadjective[only before noun ]◆a downstairs bathroom楼下的盥洗室noun★[singular ]the lower floor of a house or building, especially the one at ground level 楼下(尤指地面的一层)◆We're painting the downstairs.我们在粉刷底层。OPP
towards or on a lower floor of a building, especially a houseOPP upstairs: Rosie ran downstairs to answer the door. Charles was downstairs in the kitchen.—downstairs adjective: a downstairs bathroom
downstairs1 adverb
downstairs2 noun
downstairsdown·stairs2 nounthe downstairs the rooms on the ground floor in a house: We have still got to paint the downstairs.
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楼下(59%),在楼下(22%),楼下的(18%),向楼下(1%)
n.楼下
adj.楼下的
adv.在楼下
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