downs

n.

（鸟的）绒羽( down的名词复数 )；绒毛；软毛；汗毛

v.

放下( down的第三人称单数 )；（尤指大口或快速地）喝下；使摔倒；击落（敌机等）

英英释义

down[ daunz ]

n.

soft fine feathers

同义词：down feather

(American football) a complete play to advance the football

"you have four downs to gain ten yards"

English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

同义词：John L. H. Down

(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

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

同义词：pile

v.

drink down entirely

"He downed three martinis before dinner"

同义词：toss offpopbolt downbelt downpour downdrink downkill

eat immoderately

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

同义词：devourconsumego through

bring down or defeat (an opponent)

shoot at and force to come down

同义词：shoot downland

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"

同义词：knock downcut downpush downpull down

improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

同义词：polishrefinefine-tune

adj.

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"

becoming progressively lower

"the down trend in the real estate market"

understood perfectly

"had his algebra problems down"

同义词：down pat(p)mastered

extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

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

同义词：downward(a)

being put out by a strikeout

"two down in the bottom of the ninth"

lower than previously

"prices are down"

同义词：depressed

shut

"the shades were down"

not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

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

low in spirits

"downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

同义词：bluedepresseddispiriteddowncastdownhearteddown in the mouthlowlow-spirited

adv.

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"

同义词：downwardsdownwarddownwardly

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"

paid in cash at time of purchase

"put ten dollars down on the necklace"

from an earlier time

"the story was passed down from father to son"

to a lower intensity

"he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"

in an inactive or inoperative state

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

词组短语

down on突然意识到

go down下降；平静下来；传下去；被接受

down with打倒；把…拿下

ups and downs n. 沉浮；盛衰；高低

down through在整个…的时间里

right down [口语] , ◎非常，无限 , ◎十足的，地地道道的 , 明明白白地；无隐瞒地

down to the ground彻底地，完全；在一切方面

down and out贫困潦倒的；被击倒不能再战的

down below adv. 在底下

go down with something生(病)，得(病)，患(病)

go down with被接受；染上疾病

down against (股票市场上) 与…相比下跌

get down on something[澳大利亚、新西兰英语](尤指在不需要的时候或抢在别人前面)获得某物

down to the wire等到最后一刻才开始做事，最后关头

have someone down 把某人请来作客(从城市到农村，从河流上游到下游，从北到南等用 down，反之 用 up)

do down欺骗；胜过；说…坏话

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

It rested in the lap of an undulating upland adjoining the North Wessex downs.
它坐落在和北维塞司的丘陵相连那片起伏高原中间一个山坳里。

权威例句

Ups and downs of CHIP

The ups and downs of T cell costimulation.

The ups and downs of MEK kinase interactions

Service Break-Downs a Study of Critical Incidents in an Airline

Cholelithiasis in a neonate with Downs syndrome: a case report

A Closer Look at Discretionary Write-Downs of Impaired Assets

The ups and downs of nucleic acid duplex stability: structure-stability studies on chemically-modified DNA:RNA duplexes

Optimizing Development Time in a Seasonal Environment: The 'Ups and Downs' of Clinal Variation

The affective consequences of social comparison: Either direction has its ups and downs.

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