down
prep. 往…的下端; 在…下方; 沿著; 貫穿
adv. 往下; (坐)下; 下跌; 從上至下; 向南方; 失去錢; 預付; 到某地
v. 嚥下; 擊倒
adj. 悲傷; 停機
n. 絨毛; 分段進攻
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...
我們正在下山。
A man came down the stairs to meet them...
一名男子下樓來迎接他們。
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...
他設法緊緊地攀在了距巖壁頂端 40 英尺的岩礁上。
The union leader was last night staging a protest vigil 400 yards down a mineshaft.
昨晚工會領袖在 400 碼深的礦井下舉行了徹夜的抗議活動。
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...
她仍低頭看著檔案。
She put her head down, her hands over her face...
她低下頭,雙手掩面。
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...
響了兩聲後,我放下了電話。
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...
他們開始沿著一條又一條的街道慢跑。
Karl looked down the street...
卡爾朝街尾看了看。
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...
我從西雅圖一路南下到洛杉磯。
I have seen him walking down to the shops a mile or so away...
我看見他朝大約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...
人們在酒吧,喝得爛醉。
We got in the car and went down the supermarket and started buying food.
我們上車前往超市,然後開始購買食物。
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...
今天利率下調了。
Inflation will be down to three percent...
通貨膨脹率將降到 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.
過去了 13 個月,還有 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.
我是名不折不扣的軍人。
...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.
那個可憐的人身上只剩 3 英鎊了。
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...
任何過錯全是我們造成的。
That's down to pure hard work.
那些全是憑辛苦的勞動得來的。
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.
馬克已告訴我他要參加一場面試。
...derelict houses that were down for demolition.
將要拆除的廢棄房屋
If you are down with an illness, you have that illness.
One of the office girls was down with the flu.
一位女職員得了流感。
...a little girl down with that nasty bout of measles.
在麻疹肆虐時染病的小女孩
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% 的錢款。
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)反對,對…有敵意
be down to
可歸因於,因為
僅剩,僅餘
down in the mouth
(非正式)不高興;沮喪
down on one's luck
(非正式)倒黴,運氣不好
down tools
(英,非正式)停工(尤指作為一種勞工抗議)
down town
往(或在)市中心
have (或 put) someone/thing down as
認為…是(某種型別),斷定
down in the mouth 或 down at the mouth
垂頭喪氣的;悲傷的;沮喪的
down on
【非正式用語】 憎惡或敵對;不喜歡
down on (one's) luck
不走運地,窮困潦倒地:由於不幸而遭受厄運的折磨
Lay the baby down gently.
請將嬰兒輕輕放下.
Hearing that there was an emergency case, the doctor put down his chopsticks and left at once.
聽說有急診, 醫生撂下筷子就走.
I must ask you to tone down your remarks; they are giving offence to some of our visitors.
我們必須要求你說話語氣和緩一些, 因為你的話得罪了一些客人.
Has that noisy class settled down yet?
那個吵鬧的班安靜下來了 嗎 ?
I like the way that her hair hangs down.
我喜歡她的頭髮筆直地垂下來.