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[英] [daun] [美] [daʊn] 生词本

adv.

prep.

adj.

n.

vt.

vi.

  • 易混淆的单词：Down  

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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 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. 

  • 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 在…之下 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。

  • 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 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. 

  • 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 (放)下 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。

  • He laid his knife down.

    他放下刀。

5. 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. 

  • 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。

6. 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. 

  • 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。

7. 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. 

  • 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 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. 

  • 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。

9. 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. 

  • Thirteen months down, twenty-four years to go.

    过去了 13 个月，还有 24 年。

10. 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. 

  • 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 只剩下 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。

12. 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. 

  • 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 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 See also: come down with; 患（病）;得（病） 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

15. PREP-PHRASE 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. 

  • He paid 20 percent down.

    他付了 20% 的钱款。

16. 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. 

  • 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; 
Noun

1. soft fine feathers

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

  • "you have 4 downs to gain 10 yards"

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;

  • "He downed three martinis before dinner"
  • "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"
  • "They popped a few beer after work"

2. eat immoderately;

  • "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

3. bring down or defeat (an opponent)

4. shoot at and force to come down;

  • "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"

5. cause to come or go down;

  • "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"
  • "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"

6. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing;

  • "refine one's style of writing"
Adjective

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

  • "lay face down"
  • "the moon is down"
  • "our team is down by a run"
  • "down by a pawn"
  • "the stock market is down today"
  • antonym： up

2. becoming progressively lower;

  • "the down trend in the real estate market"

3. understood perfectly;

  • "had his algebra problems down"

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

  • "the down staircase"
  • "the downward course of the stream"

5. out;

  • "two down in the last of the ninth"

6. lower than previously;

  • "the market is depressed"
  • "prices are down"

7. shut;

  • "the shades were down"

8. cut down;

  • "the tree is down"

9. not functioning (temporarily or permanently);

  • "we can't work because the computer is down"

10. low in spirits;

  • "lonely and blue in a strange city"
  • "depressed by the loss of his job"
  • "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"
  • "downcast after his defeat"
  • "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

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

  • "the down payment"
  • "a payment of $200 down"
Adverb

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

  • "don't fall down"
  • "rode the lift up and skied down"
  • "prices plunged downward"

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

  • "was sent down to work at the regional office"
  • "worked down on the farm"
  • "came down for the wedding"
  • "flew down to Florida"
  • antonym： up

3. paid in cash at time of purchase;

  • "put ten dollars down on the necklace"

4. from an earlier time;

  • "the story was passed down from father to son"

5. to a lower intensity;

  • "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"
  • antonym： up

6. in an inactive or inoperative state;

  • "the factory went down during the strike"
  • "the computer went down again"

体育

  • 1.比分落后

医学

  • 1.胎毛：同lanugo

电力

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  • 1.下风式风电机
  • 2.down-wind WTG

解剖学

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  • 1.胎毛
  • 2.又称 :胎毛(Lanugo（拉）)

计算机

  • 1.停机，(向)下，(递)降；【WIN,NT】下面，纵向
  • 2.落下，降低，减少，
  • 3.停止;向下
1. "The Paris Commune" will go down in history and hand down a good reputation to a hundred future generations.
“巴黎公社” 将永垂史册，流芳百世。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2. Even if you plant the seed upside down,the roots will still grow down.
即使你把种子倒过来种，根须还是往下长。

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. He kicked the car down from third to second, and we slowed down.
他把汽车从三挡降为二挡，我们的速度就慢了下来。

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. She got carried away in a flurry of excitement,but we brought her down to earth by reminding her of the tasks waiting to be down.
她在一阵兴奋之中有些想入非非，但是我们提醒她还有许多事情要做，才使她从幻想回到现实中来。

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. The box is too heavy to carry down the slope; we'll have to drag it down.
这箱子太重，不能扛下坡去，我们只得把它拖下去。

来自《简明英汉词典》

6. The branches were bending down with the weight of the apples.; The apples weighed the branches down.
苹果把树枝坠得弯弯的。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

7. The price was knocked down to ￡3. Perhaps he'll knock the price down a little if the glass is broken.
价格降到了三英镑。如果玻璃有破损，或许他还会再降点儿。

来自《简明英汉词典》

8. When he heard the bomb whistling down, Jim hurled himself down on the floor with his hands over his head.
听到炸弹的呼啸落地声，吉姆双手抱着头，迅速趴在地板上。

来自《简明英汉词典》

9. Won't you sit down?; Please be seated.; Sit down, please.
请坐。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

10. "Please wait for a minute, "she called down.
“请稍等片刻。”她朝下面叫道。

来自《简明英汉词典》

11. A Scotswoman sat down beside me as we started,and she chattered nonstop the whole way.
我们出发时，一个苏格兰女人坐到我身旁，一路上她说个没完。

来自《简明英汉词典》

12. A clerk booked down details of every article handed in.
一个职员把交进来的每一件东西详细地登记下来。

来自《简明英汉词典》

13. A clever lawyer can knock down 40, 000 dollars in a good year.
如果碰上好运气，一个精明的律师一年就能赚四万美元。

来自《简明英汉词典》

14. A cold shiver ran down her spine.
她打了一个寒颤。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

15. A cold wind was coming down the valley.
有一股冷风正吹进山谷。

来自《简明英汉词典》

16. A column of soldiers marched down the highway.
一个士兵纵队沿着公路行进。

来自《简明英汉词典》

17. A fit of dizziness came over her so she had to lie down.
她突然感到头晕，不得不躺下来。

来自《简明英汉词典》

18. A great many houses were knocked down by the earthquake.
许多房子在地震中塌了。

来自《简明英汉词典》

19. A hard blow knocked the boxer down.
对方猛烈的一拳将这个拳击手击倒在地。

来自《简明英汉词典》

20. A jetliner taxied down the runway and took off.
喷气式飞机沿跑道滑行，然后起飞。

来自《简明英汉词典》