down

英[daʊn]美[daʊn]

prep.往…的下端，在…下方，沿着，贯穿；

adv.往下，(坐)下，下跌，从上至下，向南方，失去钱，预付，到某地；

v.咽下，击倒；

adj.悲伤，停机；

n.绒毛，分段进攻；

复数：downs;

第三人称单数：downs;

过去式：downed;

过去分词：downed;

现在分词：downing;

反义词

down的反义词之：

词组

be (或 have) a down on

be down to

down in the mouth

down on one's luck

down tools

down town

have (或 put) someone/thing down as

down in the mouth 或 down at the mouth

down on

down on (one's) luck

英语四级真题

The other cut down gradually over the course of two weeks.

Office managers knock down walls to encourage team building.

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.

It will experience ups and downs.

It helps slow down our aging process.

I was thinking, ‘OK, guys, if you want to try to shut me down, shut me down.

And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.

The scientists suggest this may be an attempt to calm humans down.

The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode.

may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.

Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.

In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.

In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to nail down long-term trade agreements that would lock up future grain supplies.

If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.

With wired setups, the fear is that a burglar ( ' , 入室盗贼) might be able to shut your system down simply by cutting the right cable.

In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.

I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic ( ' , 官僚的) mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.

Cutting down meetings and encouraging administrative staff to go to classrooms.

They work down the list, each task starts when the previous task is completed.

The little boy walked out of the school with his head and shoulders hanging down.

So we're eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down—or we do, but we hurry.

His face went down lower and lower, and then, with complete joy he called out, Dad.

But just before he reached the car door, he suddenly stopped, crouching ( ' , 蹲伏 ) down to peer at something on the sidewalk.

Once across, the ropes were tied down and wooden bridges were hung from them.

His mother, convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, lay down some rules.

Dr.Carson was headed down a path of self-destruction until a critical moment in his youth.

A few months ago, I was down with a terrible cold which ended in a persistent bad cough.

And McDonald's wasn't alone in slowing down: Other chains also saw their drive-through performance slow down.

But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines.

But just before he reached the car door, he suddenly stopped, crouching (蹲伏) down to peer at something on the sidewalk.

But the code to access the program cost $120—a big sum for Harper, who had already put down $450 for textbooks, and had rent day approaching.

Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze.

his mother, convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, lay down some rules.

However, the cow then moved through one of the nets knocking down a police officer in the process.

I always feel down when I see others accomplishing things and I feel miserable about my own achievements.

I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.

I thought I'd like to be a policewoman but they turned me down, because I was too short.

In 2014 City Hall developed a plan to knock down the building and replace it with affordable housing.

In the mornings you can go down to a small local cafe, soaking up the sun's rays, and drinking coffee.

It will only slow you down and hinder your career goals.

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her studio down.

My notes may or may not be useful, but the point is that by writing down what Mr.Brown says, I can follow his line of thinking more easily.

No, I just jumped down and grabbed the baby.

On the other side are parents like Mike jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade,who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a "dumbing down,"of his children's education.

One of the most effective ways to concentrate is to write things down.

One of the sessions that moved me the most was state violence on black women and black girls, says Chasin, explaining that in one room, people wrote down the names of those killed because of it.

Police frequent the area day and night, as two months ago, a young man was shot just down the street.

So he lay down and fell asleep, but the tide swept in quickly at the beach.

So, I'll meet you down at the station around 6?

That is, if you put a post stamp on upside down, you will go to prison.

The biggest concern of pumping out water from this deep is the gradual settling down of the land surface.

The Dutch king has revealed that for more than two decades he has held down a part-time second job alongside his royal duties.

The fire department of New York says the vacant 100-year-old building being pulled down partially collapsed.

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35.

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age.

Unfortunately, there is little that can be down to relieve muscle soreness.

When the body realizes the muscles are hurt, the response is to increase blood flow to the area and increase body heat, damaged cells are then cleaned up and the body sends cells specially designed to break down the large muscle fiber fragments.

While sleeping, their body temperature drops, and their heart beat slows down.

with wired setups, the fear is that a burglar might be able to shut your system down simply by cutting the right cable.

英语六级真题

A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.

Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is unadaptable and untrained.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

But overall, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

With sufficient will in Downing Street this would have been done already.

Rising more than 1,000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

We get distracted before we can turn down the heating.

Other initiatives fail to break down the data, too.

But it was the ones that mentioned the actions of neighbours that drove down power use.

"You've also got color, texture and shape sensors looking down at the ground to check pasture quality," says Salah Sukkarieh of the University of Sydney, who will carry out trials on several farms in central New South Wales.

A bathing machine was rolled down to the sea shore, so women would not be seen in swimwear.

And while the Portuguese took part in the trade, ferrying nuts down the coast along with other goods, by 1620, when English explorer Richard Jobson made his way up the Gambia, the nuts were still peculiar to his eyes.

Anything like numbers, names, places have to be noted down, but the rest is never translated word for word.

Apparently, we look down on acquaintances more so than friends.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d

At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

Businesses have downsized or shut down across America, leaving fewer job opportunities for those in search of work.

Craigslist quickly overtook newspaper classified ads and turned newspaper economics upside down.

Each week, he would try something different to see if he could find a better, faster way down the mountain.

Extreme athletes expend lots of energy breaking down and repairing and building muscles.

For example, dolphins, as well as other marine animals, shut down one hemisphere of the brain when they go to sleep.

I'll write down exactly what I'm going to say and read it carefully.

In other experiments, Lupyan and Swignley found that uttering the name of a common product when on the hunt for it helped quicken someone's pace, but talking about uncommon items showed no advantage and slowed you down.

It doesn't mean that my to-do lists no longer exist, but I've become more aware of the importance of slowing down and making sure that I enjoy the daily activities as I carry them out.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

It was a spoken code, never written down and it was developed and used by Navajo Indians.

Remember how you feel when you are speeding down the highway and a big truck suddenly brakes twenty meters in front of you.

rising more than 1, 000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.

simply, it came about through good practice trickling down.

So it is not really your memory letting you down—just your ability to retrieve information from it.

Some plants store reserves of water to see them through a drought; others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.

The Internet is apparently taking down yet another industry.

The passengers often say that seeing animals makes them feel much better, and helps them to calm down before a flight.

They have purchased a home with a small down payment and a 30-year mortgage.

Turning every single word into the target language would put too much strain on the interpreter and slow down the whole process too much.

Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is "unadaptable and untrained. It cannot respond to the opportunities which industry may offer."

We have a cafe and library upstairs and a ticket office down the hall where you can buy tickets to all the major Jazz concerts in the city.

While the efforts are certainly not futile, the results of such bans will likely only start to be seen by generations down the line, bettering the world for the future.

Write down the names of all the American states you can remember.

You really need to narrow it down in order to make it more accessible.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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.

例句

PREP

在…之下

If you are a particular distance down something, you are that distance below the top or surface of it.

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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.

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ADV

(放)下

If you put something down, you put it onto a surface.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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PREP-PHRASE

只剩下

If you are down to a certain amount of something, you have only that amount left.

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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.

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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.

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PREP-PHRASE

患（病）;得（病）

If you are down with an illness, you have that illness.

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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.

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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.

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英汉词典释义

adv.

向下, 在下面

由大到小, 由强到弱

往南; 向南方; 在南方

处于低等地位, 处于潦倒状态

（坐、倒、躺）下

（数量、力量、活动等）减少，减弱，降低

在较低水平；下降；下跌

纵横填字游戏由上至下

（写）在纸上；（列）在表格上

（表示范围或顺序的限度）下至，直至

失去（钱数）

（钱）先付，预付

已完成数量（或进度）

prep.

(表示位置)在…的下方; 在…的下端

(表示时间)自…以来; 持续一段时间

(表示方向)沿着…向下; 沿着, 顺着; 向…那一端; 朝[在]…的下游地区; 朝[在]…的南方; 到, 去; 从页首开始, 向…的底部看

（从高处）向下，往下

adj.

向下的, 下行的

沮丧的, 情绪低落的

(以…)落后于对手的

完成了的, 已处理的

计算机或计算机系统停机；停止运行

n.

（鸟的）绒羽，绒毛

绒毛；软毛；汗毛

vt.

击落(敌机等)；打倒；使倒下；使落下；使下跌

使摔倒；击倒；撞倒；把…压下去

(在比赛中)打败，击败，战胜

(尤指大口或快速地)喝下；吞下；吃下

放下；丢下，扔下，扔掉；罢(工)，罢(教)

抑制(感情)；遗忘

vi.

[常用于祈使句中]下去；下来；卧倒；下降；掉下；倒下

合口味；被咽下

被抑制；被遗忘

interj.

停止!别蹦了!下来!(喊狗停止攻击、停止扑向某人或从椅子、长沙发等上面下来)

(用作口令或警告)卧倒!隐蔽!

英英词典释义

Noun

1. soft fine feathers

2. (American football) a complete play to advance the football;

3. (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

4. fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

Verb

1. drink down entirely;

2. eat immoderately;

3. bring down or defeat (an opponent)

4. shoot at and force to come down;

5. cause to come or go down;

6. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing;

Adjective

1. being or moving lower in position or less in some value;

2. becoming progressively lower;

3. understood perfectly;

4. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place;

5. out;

6. lower than previously;

7. shut;

8. cut down;

9. not functioning (temporarily or permanently);

10. low in spirits;

11. the fractional price paid in cash at time of purchase;

Adverb

1. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position;

2. away from a more central or a more northerly place;

3. paid in cash at time of purchase;

4. from an earlier time;

5. to a lower intensity;

6. in an inactive or inoperative state;

行业词典

体育： 比分落后；

医学： 胎毛：同lanugo；

电力： 下风式风电机；down-wind WTG；

解剖学： 胎毛；又称 :胎毛(Lanugo（拉）)；