| 单词 | turn somebody/something ↔ down |
| 释义 | turn somebody/something ↔ downturn somebody/something ↔ down phrasal verbphr v a) QUIETREDUCEto turn the switch on a machine such as an oven, radio etc so that it produces less heat, sound etc 调低〔烤箱的温度、收音机的音量等〕 OPP turn up Can you turn the TV down? I’m trying to work. 你能把电视的声音关小一点吗？ 我要工作。 b) REJECT/NOT ACCEPTto refuse an offer, request, or invitation 拒绝〔建议、要求或邀请〕 They offered her the job but she turned it down. 他们要给她那份工作，但她拒绝了。 I’m not going to turn down an invitation to go to New York! 我不会拒绝去纽约的邀请！ Josie’s already turned him down (=refused his offer of marriage). 乔茜已经拒绝了他的求婚。 Examples from the Corpus turn down• And then he turned it down.• And your life is about to be turned upside down.• Not many young men were courted by Stalin's daughter - and had the nerve to turn her down.• Putting me on for, you know, turning him down.• BFor utility planners, the world was turned upside down, almost overnight.• Oliver Mowat turned him down, and that was that.• By the by Sylvia de Charmante made a huge pass at him and he turned her down flat.• The Michigan Supreme Court turned her down in 1994 and on Monday, the Supreme Court affirmed that opinion. turned him down• Brown initially had tried to name Longo to the Transportation Commission, but Longo turned him down.• Management, unfortunately, turned him down.• Six times in eight years he pleaded that they send him and six times they turned him down.• Oliver Mowat turned him down, and that was that.• And when Bill Elasky tried to suggest a project of his own design the students turned him down flat.• But when she turned him down he married her sister instead.• Maybe she just turned him down once too often. → turn somebody/something ↔ down at turn1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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