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below

/bih-loh/US // bɪˈloʊ //UK // (bɪˈləʊ) //

以下是,下面是,以下,下面

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in or toward a lower place: Look out below!
    • : on, in, or toward a lower level, as a lower deck of a ship: The captain of the ship went below.
    • : beneath the surface of the water: Divers were sent below to view the wreck.
    • : on earth: the fate of creatures here below.
    • : in hell or the infernal regions.
    • : at a later point on a page or in a text: See the illustration below.Compare above.
    • : in a lower rank or grade: He was demoted to the class below.
    • : under zero on the temperature scale: The temperature in Buffalo was ten below this morning.
    • : Theater. downstage.Compare above.
    • : Zoology. on the lower or ventral side.
prep.介词 preposition
  1. 1
    • : lower down than: below the knee.
    • : lower in rank, degree, amount, rate, etc., than: below cost; below freezing.
    • : too low or undignified to be worthy of; beneath: He considered such an action below his notice.
    • : Theater. downstage of: There are two chairs below the table.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • However, the Air Force is so strapped for people that the ratio has dropped below even that reduced level.

  • Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.

  • When I saw the fire in the restaurant, I ran down to the floor below, where I was trapped between flames above and below.

  • “Although major presses covered below news since last night, not many people is interested in their threat,” wrote Hwang.

  • An IQ below 70 generally indicates someone with intellectual disability (ID).

  • Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.

  • I have drawn a Line between the figures at the extream changes, that next below the Line is the extream.

  • The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below.

  • While the door was open he caught a glimpse of the street outside—and of Glavis on the sidewalk below.

  • After looking for them in vain down below he had feared that they might have found their way into the open air.