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单词 turn down
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turn down
1 PHRASAL VERB 拒绝(某人或其请求、提议等) If you turn down a person or their request or offer, you refuse their request or offer. 拒绝(某人或其请求、提议等)
  • Before this I'd have smiled and turned her down. [VERB noun PREP.]

    在这之前,我本该笑着拒绝她。

  • I thanked him for the offer but turned it down… [VERB noun PREP.]

    我谢绝了他的提议。

  • Would you turn down $7,000,000 to appear nude in a magazine? [VERB PREP. noun]

    给你 700 万美元要你裸体登上杂志,你会拒绝吗?

SYN refuse, decline, reject, spurn
2 PHRASAL VERB 关小;调低 When you turn down a radio, heater, or other piece of equipment, you reduce the amount of sound or heat being produced, by adjusting the controls. 关小;调低
  • He kept turning the central heating down. [VERB noun PREP.]

    他不断调低中央暖气的温度。

  • She could not bear the relentless music and turned down the volume. [VERB PREP. noun]

    她受不了没完没了的音乐,就把音量调小了。

3 PHRASAL VERB (比率)减少;(水平)降低 If the rate or level of something turns down, it decreases. (比率)减少;(水平)降低 [British, journalism]
  • The divorce rate turned down in the 1950s. [VERB PREP.]

    20 世纪 50 年代离婚率下降了。

in AM, use 美国英语用 fall
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