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down adv.向下prep.沿着 ... 而下adj.向下的；消沉的；无礼的n.绒毛；汗毛v.击倒；打败；吞下；被抑制 (1) 请坐下。(2) 他正沿海边走去。(3) 自从失去工作後,我的情绪一直处於低潮。(4) 她对不按她的要求做事的人十分不满。(5) 这条被子是用绒鸭毛做芯子的。(6) 高射炮击落了三架轰炸机。(7) 他迅速准确击中对手的下颌而把他击倒。(8) 在昨晚比赛中道杰斯队击败了梅兹队。(9) 有些人一顿饭就可以吞吃许多肉。 Anything that moves lower — in height, location, or volume — is down, so you can travel down south, tell your dog to get down, or turn your loud music down. Down can also refer to a mood or condition; if you're feeling down, you're sad, and if your computer is down, it's not working. Another meaning of down is the soft feathers of a young bird, which is sometimes used to fill coats or comforters.

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英 [daʊn] 美 [daʊn] (1) Please sit down.(2) He is walking down the seaside.(3) I've been feeling down since I lost my job.(4) She's terribly down on people who don't do things her way.(5) A quilt stuffed with the down of the eider duck.(6) Antiaircraft guns downed three bombers.(7) He downed his opponent with a quick right to the jaw.(8) The Dodgers downed the Mets in last night's game.(9) Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal. The adverb down means "from a higher place to a lower one," like when a person climbs down a ladder or a waiter puts a tray full of cakes down on a table. 1. PREPOSITION AND ADVERB USES 介词和副词用法2. ADJECTIVE USES 形容词用法3. VERB USES 动词用法4. NOUN USES 名词用法Part-1Down is often used with verbs of movement, such as ‘fall’ and ‘pull’, and also in phrasal verbs such as ‘bring down’ and ‘calm down’.down 常与 fall，pull 等表示动作的动词连用，也用于 bring down, calm down 等短语动词中。1[PREP 介词]往…的下端；向…的底部 To go down something such as a slope or a pipe means to go towards the ground or to a lower level.   [amount ADV]We're going down a mountain...我们正在下山。A man came down the stairs to meet them...一名男子下楼来迎接他们。The tears began flooding down her cheeks.眼泪开始顺着她的脸颊滚落下来。Down is also an adverb.She went down to the kitchen again...她又去了下面的厨房。She sat on the window seat until they climbed down from the roof...她坐在靠窗的座位上，直到他们从屋顶爬下来。I saw her push the boulder down on you...我看见她将巨石推下砸向你。Any unauthorized war planes flying in the area are to be shot down.任何未经允许飞入该地区的战斗机都将被击落。2[PREP 介词]在…之下 If you are a particular distance down something, you are that distance below the top or surface of it.   [amount PREP n]He managed to cling on to a ledge 40ft down the rock face...他设法紧紧地攀在了距岩壁顶端 40 英尺的岩礁上。The union leader was last night staging a protest vigil 400 yards down a mineshaft.昨晚工会领袖在 400 码深的矿井下举行了彻夜的抗议活动。Down is also an adverb.For the last 18 months miners have cut a face to develop a new shaft 400 metres down.在过去的 18 个月中，矿工在距地面 400 米处挖了一个采掘面来修建新的矿井。3[ADV 副词]往下；向下；朝下 You use down to say that you are looking or facing in a direction that is towards the ground or towards a lower level.   [ADV after v]She was still looking down at her papers...她仍低头看着文件。She put her head down, her hands over her face...她低下头，双手掩面。He bent down and picked up a rock.他弯下腰捡起一块石头。4[ADV 副词](放)下 If you put something down, you put it onto a surface.   [ADV after v]Danny put down his glass...丹尼放下了玻璃杯。After two rings I put down the phone...响了两声后，我放下了电话。He laid his knife down.他放下刀。5[PREP 介词]沿；循；顺 If you go or look down something such as a road or river, you go or look along it. If you are down a road or river, you are somewhere along it.   [oft amount PREP n]They set off at a jog up one street and down another...他们开始沿着一条又一条的街道慢跑。Karl looked down the street...卡尔朝街尾看了看。She lives a few miles down the road at Burnham.她住在伯汉姆，顺着路走几英里远。...sailing down the river on a barge.乘驳船向河的下游航行6[ADV 副词](尤指往南方或往地势低的地方)往，朝 If you are travelling to a particular place, you can say that you are going down to that place, especially if you are going towards the south or to a lower level of land.   [ADV after v]  [SPOKEN 口语]I went down to L.A. all the way from Seattle...我从西雅图一路南下到洛杉矶。I have seen him walking down to the shops a mile or so away...我看见他朝大约一英里以外的商店走去了。I'll take you back down to the valley.我会带你返回下面的山谷里。...holidaymakers coming down here in the summer.夏天来这里的度假者7[PREP 介词]在(某处)；前往（某地） If you are down a place, you are at that place. If you go down a place, you go to that place. Some people consider this to be non-standard.   [v-link PREP n]  [BRIT 英]  [INFORMAL 非正式]People are down the pub, getting drunk...人们在酒吧，喝得烂醉。We got in the car and went down the supermarket and started buying food.我们上车前往超市，然后开始购买食物。8[ADV 副词]向较低水平；下降；下跌 If an amount of something goes down, it decreases. If an amount of something is down, it has decreased and is at a lower level than it was.   [ADV after v]Interest rates came down today...今天利率下调了。Inflation will be down to three percent...通货膨胀率将降到 3%。My weight went down to seventy pounds...我的体重减到了 70 磅。My department had a healthy interest in keeping expenses down...我部门对维持低水平开支有浓厚兴趣。The Dow Jones industrial average is down 5 points at 2,913.道琼斯工业平均指数下跌了 5 个点，收于 2,913 点。...with hotel occupation down by around half.随着酒店入住率下降了大约一半9[PHRASE 短语]已处理的及尚未完成的 If you say that there are a number of things down and a number to go, you are saying how many of the things have already been dealt with and how many remain to be dealt with.   [PHR with amount]Thirteen months down, twenty-four years to go.过去了 13 个月，还有 24 年。10[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]下至；直至 Down to a particular detail means including everything, even that detail. Down to a particular person means including everyone, even that person. I was a soldier down to my shoelaces.我是名不折不扣的军人。...from the chairman right down to the tea ladies.上至主席下至上茶女侍11[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]只剩下 If you are down to a certain amount of something, you have only that amount left.   [PREP amount]The poor man's down to his last £3.那个可怜的人身上只剩 3 英镑了。12[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]由…引起(或造成) If a situation is down to a particular person or thing, it has been caused by that person or thing.   [mainly BRIT 主英]Any mistakes are entirely down to us...任何过错全是我们造成的。That's down to pure hard work.那些全是凭辛苦的劳动得来的。13[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]已安排…的；要做…的；将发生…的 If someone or something is down for a particular thing, it has been arranged that they will do that thing, or that thing will happen. Mark had told me that he was down for an interview.马克已告诉我他要参加一场面试。...derelict houses that were down for demolition.将要拆除的废弃房屋14[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]See also:come down with；患（病）；得（病） If you are down with an illness, you have that illness.   [INFORMAL 非正式]One of the office girls was down with the flu.一位女职员得了流感。...a little girl down with that nasty bout of measles.在麻疹肆虐时染病的小女孩15[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]See also:put down；支付（部分款项） If you pay money down on something, you pay part of the money you owe for it.   [mainly AM 主美]He paid 20 percent down.他付了 20% 的钱款。16[PHRASE 短语]打倒；推翻 If people shout 'down with' something or someone, they are saying that they dislike them and want to get rid of them.   [PHR n]  [disapproval]  [SPOKEN 口语]Demonstrators chanted 'down with the rebels'.示威者高呼“打倒叛徒”。17  up and down→see: up； ups and downs→see: up； down in the dumps→see: dump； Part-21[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]沮丧的；闷闷不乐的；情绪低落的 If you are feeling down, you are feeling unhappy or depressed.   [v-link ADJ]  [INFORMAL 非正式]I have been down since the injury happened...自从受了伤以来我一直很沮丧。Try to support each other when one of you is feeling down...当有人觉得情绪低落时，要努力相互打气。The old man sounded really down.老人听上去情绪十分低落。2[ADJ 形容词]写下的；记下的 If something is down on paper, it has been written on the paper.   [v-link ADJ]That date wasn't down on our news sheet.那个日期没有刊在我们的通讯简报上。3[ADJ 形容词](尤指电脑)死机的，发生故障的 If a piece of equipment, especially a computer system, is down, it is temporarily not working because of a fault.   [v-link ADJ]The computer's down again.电脑又死机了。Part-31[VERB 动词]吃下；喝下；吞下 If you say that someone downs food or a drink, you mean that they eat or drink it.   [V n]We downed bottles of local wine.我们喝了好几瓶本地产的葡萄酒。2[VERB 动词]击倒；击落；打倒 If something or someone is downed, they fall to the ground because they have been hurt or damaged in some way.   [be V-ed]  [V n]  [JOURNALISM 新闻]Two jet fighters were downed...两架喷气式战斗机被击落。A bank guard shot him in the leg and downed him.一名银行警卫开枪击中了他的大腿，使他受伤倒地。downing...the downing of an airliner, which killed 107 people.一架飞机坠落，致使 107 人丧生3见 tool. to down tools see Part-41[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](小鸟的)绒毛，绒羽 Down consists of the small, soft feathers on young birds. Down is used to make bed-covers and pillows. ...goose down.鹅绒2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]See also:downs；茸毛；绒毛；软毛；汗毛 Down is very fine hair. The whole plant is covered with fine down.整株植物都覆盖着细茸毛。

英语单词	down
英美音标	英 [daʊn] 美 [daʊn]
中文释义	adv.向下 prep.沿着 ... 而下 adj.向下的；消沉的；无礼的 n.绒毛；汗毛 v.击倒；打败；吞下；被抑制
英语例句	(1) Please sit down. (2) He is walking down the seaside. (3) I've been feeling down since I lost my job. (4) She's terribly down on people who don't do things her way. (5) A quilt stuffed with the down of the eider duck. (6) Antiaircraft guns downed three bombers. (7) He downed his opponent with a quick right to the jaw. (8) The Dodgers downed the Mets in last night's game. (9) Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal.
中文例句	(1) 请坐下。 (2) 他正沿海边走去。 (3) 自从失去工作後,我的情绪一直处於低潮。 (4) 她对不按她的要求做事的人十分不满。 (5) 这条被子是用绒鸭毛做芯子的。 (6) 高射炮击落了三架轰炸机。 (7) 他迅速准确击中对手的下颌而把他击倒。 (8) 在昨晚比赛中道杰斯队击败了梅兹队。 (9) 有些人一顿饭就可以吞吃许多肉。
vocabulary简明	The adverb down means "from a higher place to a lower one," like when a person climbs down a ladder or a waiter puts a tray full of cakes down on a table.
vocabulary扩展	Anything that moves lower — in height, location, or volume — is down, so you can travel down south, tell your dog to get down, or turn your loud music down. Down can also refer to a mood or condition; if you're feeling down, you're sad, and if your computer is down, it's not working. Another meaning of down is the soft feathers of a young bird, which is sometimes used to fill coats or comforters.
柯林斯解释	1. PREPOSITION AND ADVERB USES 介词和副词用法 2. ADJECTIVE USES 形容词用法 3. VERB USES 动词用法 4. NOUN USES 名词用法 Part-1 Down is often used with verbs of movement, such as ‘fall’ and ‘pull’, and also in phrasal verbs such as ‘bring down’ and ‘calm down’. down 常与 fall，pull 等表示动作的动词连用，也用于 bring down, calm down 等短语动词中。 1 [PREP 介词]往…的下端；向…的底部 To go down something such as a slope or a pipe means to go towards the ground or to a lower level. [amount ADV] We're going down a mountain... 我们正在下山。 A man came down the stairs to meet them... 一名男子下楼来迎接他们。 The tears began flooding down her cheeks. 眼泪开始顺着她的脸颊滚落下来。 Down is also an adverb. She went down to the kitchen again... 她又去了下面的厨房。 She sat on the window seat until they climbed down from the roof... 她坐在靠窗的座位上，直到他们从屋顶爬下来。 I saw her push the boulder down on you... 我看见她将巨石推下砸向你。 Any unauthorized war planes flying in the area are to be shot down. 任何未经允许飞入该地区的战斗机都将被击落。 2 [PREP 介词]在…之下 If you are a particular distance down something, you are that distance below the top or surface of it. [amount PREP n] He managed to cling on to a ledge 40ft down the rock face... 他设法紧紧地攀在了距岩壁顶端 40 英尺的岩礁上。 The union leader was last night staging a protest vigil 400 yards down a mineshaft. 昨晚工会领袖在 400 码深的矿井下举行了彻夜的抗议活动。 Down is also an adverb. For the last 18 months miners have cut a face to develop a new shaft 400 metres down. 在过去的 18 个月中，矿工在距地面 400 米处挖了一个采掘面来修建新的矿井。 3 [ADV 副词]往下；向下；朝下 You use down to say that you are looking or facing in a direction that is towards the ground or towards a lower level. [ADV after v] She was still looking down at her papers... 她仍低头看着文件。 She put her head down, her hands over her face... 她低下头，双手掩面。 He bent down and picked up a rock. 他弯下腰捡起一块石头。 4 [ADV 副词](放)下 If you put something down, you put it onto a surface. [ADV after v] Danny put down his glass... 丹尼放下了玻璃杯。 After two rings I put down the phone... 响了两声后，我放下了电话。 He laid his knife down. 他放下刀。 5 [PREP 介词]沿；循；顺 If you go or look down something such as a road or river, you go or look along it. If you are down a road or river, you are somewhere along it. [oft amount PREP n] They set off at a jog up one street and down another... 他们开始沿着一条又一条的街道慢跑。 Karl looked down the street... 卡尔朝街尾看了看。 She lives a few miles down the road at Burnham. 她住在伯汉姆，顺着路走几英里远。 ...sailing down the river on a barge. 乘驳船向河的下游航行 6 [ADV 副词](尤指往南方或往地势低的地方)往，朝 If you are travelling to a particular place, you can say that you are going down to that place, especially if you are going towards the south or to a lower level of land. [ADV after v] [SPOKEN 口语] I went down to L.A. all the way from Seattle... 我从西雅图一路南下到洛杉矶。 I have seen him walking down to the shops a mile or so away... 我看见他朝大约一英里以外的商店走去了。 I'll take you back down to the valley. 我会带你返回下面的山谷里。 ...holidaymakers coming down here in the summer. 夏天来这里的度假者 7 [PREP 介词]在(某处)；前往（某地） If you are down a place, you are at that place. If you go down a place, you go to that place. Some people consider this to be non-standard. [v-link PREP n] [BRIT 英] [INFORMAL 非正式] People are down the pub, getting drunk... 人们在酒吧，喝得烂醉。 We got in the car and went down the supermarket and started buying food. 我们上车前往超市，然后开始购买食物。 8 [ADV 副词]向较低水平；下降；下跌 If an amount of something goes down, it decreases. If an amount of something is down, it has decreased and is at a lower level than it was. [ADV after v] Interest rates came down today... 今天利率下调了。 Inflation will be down to three percent... 通货膨胀率将降到 3%。 My weight went down to seventy pounds... 我的体重减到了 70 磅。 My department had a healthy interest in keeping expenses down... 我部门对维持低水平开支有浓厚兴趣。 The Dow Jones industrial average is down 5 points at 2,913. 道琼斯工业平均指数下跌了 5 个点，收于 2,913 点。 ...with hotel occupation down by around half. 随着酒店入住率下降了大约一半 9 [PHRASE 短语]已处理的及尚未完成的 If you say that there are a number of things down and a number to go, you are saying how many of the things have already been dealt with and how many remain to be dealt with. [PHR with amount] Thirteen months down, twenty-four years to go. 过去了 13 个月，还有 24 年。 10 [PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]下至；直至 Down to a particular detail means including everything, even that detail. Down to a particular person means including everyone, even that person. I was a soldier down to my shoelaces. 我是名不折不扣的军人。 ...from the chairman right down to the tea ladies. 上至主席下至上茶女侍 11 [PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]只剩下 If you are down to a certain amount of something, you have only that amount left. [PREP amount] The poor man's down to his last £3. 那个可怜的人身上只剩 3 英镑了。 12 [PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]由…引起(或造成) If a situation is down to a particular person or thing, it has been caused by that person or thing. [mainly BRIT 主英] Any mistakes are entirely down to us... 任何过错全是我们造成的。 That's down to pure hard work. 那些全是凭辛苦的劳动得来的。 13 [PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]已安排…的；要做…的；将发生…的 If someone or something is down for a particular thing, it has been arranged that they will do that thing, or that thing will happen. Mark had told me that he was down for an interview. 马克已告诉我他要参加一场面试。 ...derelict houses that were down for demolition. 将要拆除的废弃房屋 14 [PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]See also:come down with ；患（病）；得（病） If you are down with an illness, you have that illness. [INFORMAL 非正式] One of the office girls was down with the flu. 一位女职员得了流感。 ...a little girl down with that nasty bout of measles. 在麻疹肆虐时染病的小女孩 15 [PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]See also:put down ；支付（部分款项） If you pay money down on something, you pay part of the money you owe for it. [mainly AM 主美] He paid 20 percent down. 他付了 20% 的钱款。 16 [PHRASE 短语]打倒；推翻 If people shout 'down with' something or someone, they are saying that they dislike them and want to get rid of them. [PHR n] [disapproval] [SPOKEN 口语] Demonstrators chanted 'down with the rebels'. 示威者高呼“打倒叛徒”。 17 up and down→see: up ； ups and downs→see: up ； down in the dumps→see: dump ； Part-2 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]沮丧的；闷闷不乐的；情绪低落的 If you are feeling down, you are feeling unhappy or depressed. [v-link ADJ] [INFORMAL 非正式] I have been down since the injury happened... 自从受了伤以来我一直很沮丧。 Try to support each other when one of you is feeling down... 当有人觉得情绪低落时，要努力相互打气。 The old man sounded really down. 老人听上去情绪十分低落。 2 [ADJ 形容词]写下的；记下的 If something is down on paper, it has been written on the paper. [v-link ADJ] That date wasn't down on our news sheet. 那个日期没有刊在我们的通讯简报上。 3 [ADJ 形容词](尤指电脑)死机的，发生故障的 If a piece of equipment, especially a computer system, is down, it is temporarily not working because of a fault. [v-link ADJ] The computer's down again. 电脑又死机了。 Part-3 1 [VERB 动词]吃下；喝下；吞下 If you say that someone downs food or a drink, you mean that they eat or drink it. [V n] We downed bottles of local wine. 我们喝了好几瓶本地产的葡萄酒。 2 [VERB 动词]击倒；击落；打倒 If something or someone is downed, they fall to the ground because they have been hurt or damaged in some way. [be V-ed] [V n] [JOURNALISM 新闻] Two jet fighters were downed... 两架喷气式战斗机被击落。 A bank guard shot him in the leg and downed him. 一名银行警卫开枪击中了他的大腿，使他受伤倒地。 downing ...the downing of an airliner, which killed 107 people. 一架飞机坠落，致使 107 人丧生 3 见 tool. to down tools see Part-4 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](小鸟的)绒毛，绒羽 Down consists of the small, soft feathers on young birds. Down is used to make bed-covers and pillows. ...goose down. 鹅绒 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]See also:downs ；茸毛；绒毛；软毛；汗毛 Down is very fine hair. The whole plant is covered with fine down. 整株植物都覆盖着细茸毛。

I Lower N Prep Phrase 短语介词 Feeling People Put