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单词 to look downwards
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to look downwards
to look downwards
1. intransitive. = to look downward 1 at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look down
to look downa1200
to look downward?a1425
to look downwards1550
to look under1622
1550 R. Sherry tr. J. Brenz Verye Fruitful Expos. Syxte Chapter St. John sig. Fiiii Other creatures..loke downewardes to the grownd, but mans body is vpryght to loke vpon heauen.
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus ii. C ij When other creatures..Look downwards on't, [thou] hast an erected figure.
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 114 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. He doth not look downwards, but streight before, and sidewards.
1706 tr. L. Bordelon Managem. Tongue 249 He walks looking downwards, and he dares not lift up his Eyes to look upon those who go by.
1796 Monthly Rev. 19 57 A judge was expressed by a man without hands looking downwards, to shew that a judge ought not to be moved either by interest or pity.
1896 Sunday at Home 1 Jan. 264/1 It made Harry giddy to look downwards at the vista of great boulders and fir-trunks clinging, as if for dear life, to the precipitous slope.
1937 G. Dennis Coronation Comm. 157 He was nervous, and nibbled at his nails and looked downwards.
2013 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 8 Dec. (Notebook Mag. section) Do they look downwards when talking to you? Do they hide their hands? These are two signs people give when they are hiding something.
2. intransitive. Stock Market. = to look downward 2 at Phrasal verbs 1. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (intransitive)] > state of market or prices > fall or rise (of prices)
to look downwards1796
to look downward1801
to look down1808
rally1826
sag1870
give way1883
slump1888
firm1896
move1904
spurt1931
perform1933
dip1956
to pull back1966
to go in the tank1974
1796 Daily Advertiser (London) 16 July 1/2 Beef is now..three Farthings a Pound dearer than it had been a Fortnight since; Mutton is, however, looking downwards.
1838 Farmer's Mag. May 388/2 Wool has rather receded in price, and few buyers, which is invariably the case when things are looking downwards.
1852 Express (London) 31 Aug. 1/6 The [tallow] market has become quiet, and prices look downwards.
1919 Japan Financial & Econ. Monthly May 18/2 The price of rice which had been looking downwards showed a great falling off in the month under review.
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