| 释义 |
downwards, adv.|ˈdaʊnwədz|
[f. downward with adverbial genitive -es, -s: see -wards.]
1. a. = downward adv. 1 a, b.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. I. 120 The Light is turned down-wards. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 211 Her bill is crooked downwards. 1641Wilkins Math. Magick i. ix. (1648) 57 The squeezing or pressing of things downewards. 1726Adv. Capt. R. Boyle 3 The Tide running downwards. 1879Lubbock Sci. Lect. ii. 36 The hairs which cover the stalks..usually point downwards.
b. = downward adv. 1 c.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xv. 166 Þerfore make þei the halfendel of ydole of a man vpwardes, and the toþer half of an ox dounwardes. 1620Melton Astrolog. 28 The Antipodites have their feete downewards and their heads upwards as well as wee. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 419 A small antique Venus, with a drapery from the waist downwards. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey vi. i, He tossed..the great horn upside downwards.
2. fig. = downward adv. 2.
a1654Selden Table-T. (Arb.) 69 Some of them are asham'd upwards, because their Ancestors were too great. Others are asham'd downwards, because they were too little. 1857Chambers' Information I. 691 Angling, Wormgut varies in length from nearly two feet and downwards. 1885L. O. Pike Yearbks. 12 & 13 Edw. III Introd. 42 From the time of Glanville downwards. |