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downward

/doun-werd/US // ˈdaʊn wərd //UK // (ˈdaʊnwəd) //

向下,向下的,向下看,往下看

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : Also downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
    • : down from a source or beginning: As the river flows downward, it widens.
    • : from a past time, predecessor, or ancestor: The estate was handed downward from generation to generation.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : moving or tending to a lower place or condition.
    • : descending from a source or beginning.

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Examples

  • “I’m hopeful the downward trend in positive cases means that we can start shifting our focus on reopening things and less on enforcement,” he said.

  • The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to turn emissions downward.

  • In theory, those policies should also help ease the burden to families of raising children, thus slowing the downward spiral in the nation’s birth rate.

  • For a country whose economy has been on a downward slope since demonetisation in 2016, India’s management of the pandemic proved to be the final nail in the coffin.

  • Be aware there is some visual distortion with these lenses when looking downward.

  • The now-convicted felons will hear their sentences in January, but their story continues to spiral downward.

  • This downward spiral involving local power politics was obvious to the Americans in the valley.

  • To his fellow survivors and to the audience, this delusion indicates another slip on a downward spiral.

  • All of these rules grew organically from the community rather than being dictated downward by a cen­tral authority.

  • The number of families who struggle to put food on the table has barely inched downward, even though employment is up.

  • Now here was a lover's meeting, not lacking the shy, downward glance of dark eyes as steel-blue eyes flashed frank admiration.

  • Their path here separated, Mrs. Martin following the downward course of the sandy lane, and Dorothy climbing the hill.

  • One swift downward thrust Garnache made at the mass that wriggled under his cloak.

  • Rising to a point where it cools, the vapour gathers back on the rafts and tends again to weight the cloud downward.

  • When they start downward they have, as observations show, a temperature not much above the freezing point of salt water.