单词 | down |
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音标 | 英[daʊn] 美[daʊn] |
解释 | adv.(坐、倒、躺)下;向下;(表示范围或顺序的限度)下至;prep.(从高处)向下;(表示位置)在…的下方;(表示方向)沿着…向下;(表示时间)自…以来;adj.向下的;沮丧的;计算机或计算机系统停机;(以…)落后于对手的;n.(鸟的)绒羽;绒毛;软毛;汗毛;vt.放下;(尤指大口或快速地)喝下;使摔倒;击落(敌机等);vi.[常用于祈使句中]下去;下来;卧倒;下降; |
例句 | PREP 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. 例:We're going down a mountain...我们正在下山。 例:A man came down the stairs to meet them...一名男子下楼来迎接他们。 PREP 在…之下 If you are a particular distance down something, you are that distance below the top or surface of it. 例: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。 例: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。 ADV 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. 例:She was still looking down at her papers...她仍低头看着文件。 例:She put her head down, her hands over her face...她低下头,双手掩面。 ADV (放)下 If you put something down, you put it onto a surface. 例:Danny put down his glass...丹尼放下了玻璃杯。 例:After two rings I put down the phone...响了两声后,我放下了电话。 PREP 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. 例: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。 例:Karl looked down the street...卡尔朝街尾看了看。 ADV (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. 例:I went down to L.A. all the way from Seattle...我从西雅图一路南下到洛杉矶。 例: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。 PREP 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. 例:People are down the pub, getting drunk...人们在酒吧,喝得烂醉。 例: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。 ADV 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. 例:Interest rates came down today...今天利率下调了。 例:Inflation will be down to three percent...通货膨胀率将降到 3%。 PHRASE 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. 例:Thirteen months down, twenty-four years to go.过去了 13 个月,还有 24 年。 PREP-PHRASE 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. 例:I was a soldier down to my shoelaces.我是名不折不扣的军人。 例:...from the chairman right down to the tea ladies.上至主席下至上茶女侍 PREP-PHRASE 只剩下 If you are down to a certain amount of something, you have only that amount left. 例:The poor man's down to his last £3.那个可怜的人身上只剩 3 英镑了。 PREP-PHRASE 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. 例:Any mistakes are entirely down to us...任何过错全是我们造成的。 例:That's down to pure hard work.那些全是凭辛苦的劳动得来的。 PREP-PHRASE 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. 例: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。 例:...derelict houses that were down for demolition.将要拆除的废弃房屋 PREP-PHRASE 患(病);得(病) If you are down with an illness, you have that illness. 例:One of the office girls was down with the flu.一位女职员得了流感。 例:...a little girl down with that nasty bout of measles.在麻疹肆虐时染病的小女孩 PREP-PHRASE 支付(部分款项) If you pay money down on something, you pay part of the money you owe for it. 例:He paid 20 percent down.他付了 20% 的钱款。 PHRASE 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. 例:Demonstrators chanted 'down with the rebels'.示威者高呼“打倒叛徒”。 |
变形 | third:downs~done:downed~pl:downs~ing:downing~past:downed~ |
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