down
down 英 [daʊn] 美 [daʊn]
adv. 向下，下去 adj. 向下的 vi. 下降；下去
进行时:downing 过去式:downed 过去分词:downed 第三人称单数:downs 名词复数:downs
- The adverb down means "from a higher place to a lower one," like when a person climbs down a ladder or a waiter puts a tray full of cakes down on a table.
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- adv. 向下，下去
- adj. 向下的
- vi. 下降；下去
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1. A spider is going down
一只蜘蛛正在下来。
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2. She jumped down off the chair.
她跳下椅子。
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3. Please sit down.
请坐。
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4. Prices have gone down recently.
最近物价下降了。
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5. Turn the music down!
把音乐声关小点！
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6. They flew down to Texas.
他们乘飞机南下去得克萨斯州了。
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7. Did you get that down?
你写下来了吗？
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8. I always write everything down.
我不管什么事情都记下来。
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9. I'm just going down to the post office.
我正要到邮局去。
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10. Tears ran down her face.
泪水顺着她的脸庞流下来。
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11. to down a plane
击落一架飞机
- down (adv.) late Old English shortened form of Old English ofdune "downwards," from dune "from the hill," dative of dun "hill" (see down (n.2)). A sense development peculiar to English.
- down (n.1) "soft feathers," late 14c., from Old Norse dunn, of uncertain origin.
- down (n.2) Old English dun "down, moor; height, hill, mountain," from Proto-Germanic *dunaz- (source also of Middle Dutch dunen "sandy hill," Dutch duin), "probably a pre-insular loan-word from Celtic" [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names], in other words, borrowed at a very early period, before the Anglo-Saxon migration, from PIE root *dheue- "to close, finish, come full circle." Meaning "elevated rolling grassland" is from c. 1300.
- down (v.) 1560s, from down (adv.). Meaning "swallow hastily" is by 1860; football sense of "bring down (an opposing player) by tackling" is attested by 1887. Related: Downed; downing.
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