| 单词 | turn down |
| 释义 | turn down 1. phrasal verb B2 If you turn down a person or their request or offer, you refuse their request or offer. Before this I'd have smiled and turned her down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] I thanked him for the offer but turned it down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Would you turn down $7,000,000 to appear nude in a magazine? [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb B1 When you turn down a radio, heater, or other piece of equipment, you reduce the amount of sound or heat being produced, by adjusting the controls. He kept turning the central heating down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] She could not bear the relentless music and turned down the volume. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for turn If the rate or level of something turns down, it decreases. [British, journalism] The divorce rate turned down in the 1950s. [VERB PARTICLE] Translations: Chinese: 拒绝 Japanese: 小さくする |
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