| 释义 |
down adverb—下 adv ()下来 adv ()向下 adv ()Examples:lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation—sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion—Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down—passed on from generation generation (idiom); to hand down—invert (upside-down, inside-out, back-to-front, white to black etc)—count backwards (from 10 down to 0)—be able to put (sth) down—lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them rain—Aleutian islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down Kamtchatka)—court crown beneath straw shoe (idiom); everything turned upside-down—raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom); success or failure depends solely on one individual—East Pacific rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California down Antarctica)—pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway—be willing to take things lying down—grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task—lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation—lit. reputation will go down in history (idiom); fig. achievements will earn eternal glory—equality ration fund, a charitable investment fund that can be drawn down in proportion further donations—transmit a document (up or down a chain of bureaucracy)—lit. pull down the east wall repair the west wall (idiom); fig. temporary expedient—cut a text down to size for publication—lit. fettered by fame and locked up by riches (idiom); tied down by reputation and wealth—elegant, almond-shaped eyes with the inner canthus pointing down and the outer canthus up, like the eye of a phoenix—shoving false arguments down people's throats—wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously—I appreciate your kindness (conventional reply turn down an offer)—lit. rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the people from dire straits—hundred knots of worry in one's intestines (idiom); weighed down with anxiety—(after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)—lit. go up to heaven or down to Hades; fig. whichever way, I don't care—write down (i.e. to decrease the expected value of a loan)—lit. wind flows, clouds scatter (idiom); the crisis settles down—lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom); fig. cease—pass down (to lower level)—emphasize down to last detail (idiom); to show every possible consideration—up here, down there (idiom); rise and fall in succession—lit. pull down the east wall repair the west (idiom); fig. temporary expedient—egg rolling (rolling of decorated, hard-boiled eggs down hillsides by children at Easter)—Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005—handed down in a direct line from the founder—pass down to a lower unit—throw stones at sb. who fell down a well (idiom); to hit a person who is down—lit. rising and lying down, working and resting [idiom.]—have one's name go down in history as a byword for infamy [idiom.]— |