down
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
To go down something such as a slope or a pipe means to go towards the ground or to a lower level.
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。
If you are a particular distance down something, you are that distance below the top or surface of it.
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。
You use down to say that you are looking or facing in a direction that is towards the ground or towards a lower level.
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。
If you put something down, you put it onto a surface.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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%。
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.
Thirteen months down, twenty-four years to go.
过去了 13 个月,还有 24 年。
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
If you are down to a certain amount of something, you have only that amount left.
The poor man's down to his last £3.
那个可怜的人身上只剩 3 英镑了。
If a situation is down to a particular person or thing, it has been caused by that person or thing.
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。
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
If you are down with an illness, you have that illness.
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
If you pay money down on something, you pay part of the money you owe for it.
He paid 20 percent down.
他付了 20% 的钱款。
If people shout 'down with' something or someone, they are saying that they dislike them and want to get rid of them.
Demonstrators chanted 'down with the rebels'.
示威者高呼“打倒叛徒”。
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)
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;
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;
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;
be (或 have) a down on
(非正式)反对,对…有敌意
be down to
可归因于,因为
仅剩,仅余
down in the mouth
(非正式)不高兴;沮丧
down on one's luck
(非正式)倒霉,运气不好
down tools
(英,非正式)停工(尤指作为一种劳工抗议)
down town
往(或在)市中心
have (或 put) someone/thing down as
认为…是(某种类型),断定
down in the mouth 或 down at the mouth
垂头丧气的;悲伤的;沮丧的
down on
【非正式用语】 憎恶或敌对;不喜欢
down on (one's) luck
不走运地,穷困潦倒地:由于不幸而遭受厄运的折磨
Lay the baby down gently.
请将婴儿轻轻放下.
Hearing that there was an emergency case, the doctor put down his chopsticks and left at once.
听说有急诊, 医生撂下筷子就走.
I must ask you to tone down your remarks; they are giving offence to some of our visitors.
我们必须要求你说话语气和缓一些, 因为你的话得罪了一些客人.
Has that noisy class settled down yet?
那个吵闹的班安静下来了 吗 ?
I like the way that her hair hangs down.
我喜欢她的头发笔直地垂下来.