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top-down

/top-doun/US // ˈtɒpˌdaʊn //

自上而下,自上而下的,自顶向下,由上而下

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : relating to, originating with, or directed by those of highest rank: a centralized, top-down organization with a chain of command reporting up from every corner of the earth.
    • : organized or proceeding from the larger, more general structure to smaller, more detailed units, as in processing information: Top-down investing looks at the big picture, or how the overall economy drives the markets, and then focuses on individual stocks.
    • : Computers. noting or relating to a methodology used in the design and coding of programs that takes a high-level description of a problem and successively breaks it into smaller and simpler subunits.

Examples

  • Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

  • That article noted that the F-35 does not currently have the ability to down-link live video to ground troops,.

  • A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.

  • There is a particular focus in the magazine on attacking the United States, which al Qaeda calls a top target.

  • In the meantime, Epstein has tried to use his charitable projects to float him back to the top.

  • The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.

  • I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

  • He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.

  • His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

  • So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.