down

noun

1. (American football) a complete play to advance the football

e.g. you have four downs to gain ten yards

2. soft fine feathers

Synonym: down feather

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

Synonym: pile

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

verb

1. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

e.g. refine one's style of writing

Synonym: polishrefinefine-tune

2. bring down or defeat (an opponent)

3. eat immoderately

e.g. Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal

Synonym: devourconsumego through

4. drink down entirely

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

Synonym: toss offpopbolt downbelt downpour downdrink downkill

5. cause to come or go down

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

Synonym: knock downcut downpush downpull down

6. shoot at and force to come down

e.g. the enemy landed several of our aircraft

Synonym: shoot downland

adj

1. not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

e.g. we can't work because the computer is down

2. shut

e.g. the shades were down

3. understood perfectly

e.g. had his algebra problems down

Synonym: down pat(p)mastered

4. being or moving lower in position or less in some value

e.g. lay face down
the moon is down
our team is down by a run
down by a pawn
the stock market is down today

adv

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

e.g. don't fall down
rode the lift up and skied down
prices plunged downward

Synonym: downwardsdownwarddownwardly

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

e.g. was sent down to work at the regional office
worked down on the farm
came down for the wedding
flew down to Florida

3. paid in cash at time of purchase

e.g. put ten dollars down on the necklace

4. in an inactive or inoperative state

e.g. the factory went down during the strike
the computer went down again

5. to a lower intensity

e.g. he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black

6. from an earlier time

e.g. the story was passed down from father to son

介词和副词用法（PREPOSITION AND ADVERB USES）

1. 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.

e.g. We're going down a mountain...
我们正在下山。
e.g. A man came down the stairs to meet them...
一名男子下楼来迎接他们。

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

down什么意思

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

3. 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.

e.g. She was still looking down at her papers...
她仍低头看着文件。
e.g. She put her head down, her hands over her face...
她低下头，双手掩面。

4. (放)下
If you put something down, you put it onto a surface.

e.g. Danny put down his glass...
丹尼放下了玻璃杯。
e.g. After two rings I put down the phone...
响了两声后，我放下了电话。

5. 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.

e.g. 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。
e.g. Karl looked down the street...
卡尔朝街尾看了看。

6. (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.

e.g. I went down to L.A. all the way from Seattle...
我从西雅图一路南下到洛杉矶。
e.g. 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。

7. 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.

down的解释

e.g. People are down the pub, getting drunk...
人们在酒吧，喝得烂醉。
e.g. 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. 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.

e.g. Interest rates came down today...
今天利率下调了。
e.g. Inflation will be down to three percent...
通货膨胀率将降到 3%。

9. 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.

e.g. Thirteen months down, twenty-four years to go.
过去了 13 个月，还有 24 年。

10. 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.

e.g. I was a soldier down to my shoelaces.
我是名不折不扣的军人。
e.g. ...from the chairman right down to the tea ladies.
上至主席下至上茶女侍

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

down在线翻译

e.g. The poor man's down to his last £3.
那个可怜的人身上只剩 3 英镑了。

12. 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.

e.g. Any mistakes are entirely down to us...
任何过错全是我们造成的。
e.g. That's down to pure hard work.
那些全是凭辛苦的劳动得来的。

13. 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.

e.g. 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。
e.g. ...derelict houses that were down for demolition.
将要拆除的废弃房屋

14. 患（病）;得（病）
If you are down with an illness, you have that illness.

down是什么意思

e.g. One of the office girls was down with the flu.
一位女职员得了流感。
e.g. ...a little girl down with that nasty bout of measles.
在麻疹肆虐时染病的小女孩

15. 支付（部分款项）
If you pay money down on something, you pay part of the money you owe for it.

e.g. He paid 20 percent down.
他付了 20% 的钱款。

16. 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.

e.g. 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

形容词用法（ADJECTIVE USES）

1. 沮丧的;闷闷不乐的;情绪低落的
If you are feeling down, you are feeling unhappy or depressed.

e.g. I have been down since the injury happened...
自从受了伤以来我一直很沮丧。
e.g. Try to support each other when one of you is feeling down...
当有人觉得情绪低落时，要努力相互打气。

2. 写下的;记下的
If something is down on paper, it has been written on the paper.

e.g. That date wasn't down on our news sheet.
那个日期没有刊在我们的通讯简报上。

3. (尤指电脑)死机的，发生故障的
If a piece of equipment, especially a computer system, is down, it is temporarily not working because of a fault.

down的解释

e.g. The computer's down again.
电脑又死机了。

动词用法（VERB USES）

1. 吃下;喝下;吞下
If you say that someone downs food or a drink, you mean that they eat or drink it.

e.g. We downed bottles of local wine.
我们喝了好几瓶本地产的葡萄酒。

2. 击倒;击落;打倒
If something or someone is downed, they fall to the ground because they have been hurt or damaged in some way.

e.g. Two jet fighters were downed...
两架喷气式战斗机被击落。
e.g. A bank guard shot him in the leg and downed him.
一名银行警卫开枪击中了他的大腿，使他受伤倒地。

3. 见 tool.
to down tools see

down

名词用法（NOUN USES）

1. (小鸟的)绒毛，绒羽
Down consists of the small, soft feathers on young birds. Down is used to make bed-covers and pillows.

down什么意思

e.g. ...goose down.
鹅绒

2. 茸毛;绒毛;软毛;汗毛
Down is very fine hair.

e.g. The whole plant is covered with fine down.
整株植物都覆盖着细茸毛。

1. 羽绒：最近一些服裝設計師,也開始將羽絨(DOWN)填充應用在流行服飾上,讓羽絨衣以更多樣化的風貌呈現在消費者面前,更貼近我們的日常穿著,改變了消費者認為羽絨衣只有在出國賞雪、登山旅遊才能穿用的刻板

2. 下移：按住上移(UP)或下移(DOWN)键,浏览操作屏幕左侧的文件夹列表. 2、选中所需文件夹,按确认(ENTER)键. 3、按住上移(UP)或下移(DOWN)键浏览歌曲列表并选中所需歌曲. 按确认(ENTER)键,开始回放选中的歌曲. 可在光盘上临时选定歌曲播放顺序.

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