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downwards

adverb
 
🔊/ˈdaʊnwədz/
🔊/ˈdaʊnwərdz/
(also downward especially in North American English)
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  1.  
     towards the ground; towards a lower place or position向下
    • She was lying face downwards on the grass.她俯卧在草地上。🔊🔊
    • The garden sloped gently downwards to the river.花园向河边呈缓坡倾斜。🔊🔊
    opposite upwards (1)
    Language Bank fallfallDescribing a decrease描述下降
      • Car crime in Oxford fell significantly last year.去年牛津的汽车犯罪显著下降。
      • Car crime fell by about a quarter over a 12-month period.12 个月内汽车犯罪下降了约四分之一。
      • The number of stolen vehicles dropped from 1 013 to 780, a fall of 26 per cent.被盗汽车数量从 1 013 辆减少到 780 辆，下降了 26%。
      • According to this data, 780 vehicles were stolen, 26 per cent down on the previous year.根据该数据，有780辆汽车被盗，比上一年下降了26％。
      • There was an 11 per cent drop in reported thefts from motor vehicles, from 1 971 to 1 737.报告的汽车盗窃事件从1 971下降到1 737，下降了11％。
      • These figures show that, as far as car crime is concerned, the main trend is downwards.这些数据表明，就汽车犯罪而言，大趋势是下降的。
    Topics Change, cause and effectb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryDownwards is used with these verbs:
    • adjust
    • float
    • jerk
    • …
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  2.  
     towards a lower level, amount or price向下
    • Nine per cent of commuters used public transport in 2018 and the trend is downwards.2018年，有9％的通勤者使用公共交通工具，而且这种趋势正在下降。
    • It was a policy welcomed by world leaders from the US president downwards.这一政策受到了美国总统乃至全世界领导人的欢迎。🔊🔊
    • Official projections of the spread of AIDS have mercifully been revised downwards (= it has been predicted that the disease will not spread as fast as had earlier been suggested).官方已将艾滋病传播的官方预测大幅下调。
    • The economy is in a bad state and the stock market is spiraling downwards. 经济状况不佳，股票市场不断下滑。
    opposite upwards (2)