downs
英 [daʊnz] 美 [daʊnz]

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

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双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. 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

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