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单词 downhill
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(daʊnhɪl)
1. adverb [ADVERB after verb, be ADVERB]
If something or someone is moving downhill or is downhill, they are moving down a slope or are located towards the bottom of a hill.
He headed downhill towards the river.
The lake itself lies only a few hundred yards off to your right and slightly downhill.
It was a clearing just downhill from a peak of eight thousand feet.
[Also + from]
Downhill is also an adjective.
Bessie was on the downhill path.
...downhill ski runs.
We began a steady downhill run.
2. adverb [ADVERB after verb]
If you say that something is going downhill, you mean that it is becoming worse or less successful.
Since I started to work longer hours things have gone steadily downhill.
For the movie business, it was all downhill from there.
His career was heading downhill fast.
3. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If you say that a task or situation is downhill after a particular stage or time, you mean that it is easy to deal with after that stage or time.
Well, I guess it's all downhill from here.

downhill in British English

(ˈdaʊnˈhɪl)
adjective
1. 
going or sloping down
adverb
2. 
towards the bottom of a hill; downwards
3.  go downhill
noun
4. 
the downward slope of a hill; descent
5. 
a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run

downhill in American English

(ˈdaʊnˈhɪl)
adverb
1. 
toward the bottom of a hill
2. 
to a poorer condition, status, etc.
adjective
3. 
sloping or going downward
4. 
without difficulty; easy
5. 
of or having to do with skiing downhill or, specif., the downhill (sense 7)
noun
6.  Obsolete
descent (sense 4)
7.  Skiing
a timed downhill race on a very long, steep course with wide gates
see also slalom
Idioms:
go downhill

Examples of 'downhill' in a sentence
downhill

In the afternoon there was just one downhill run.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She's gone downhill a lot quicker than her dad.
The Sun (2017)
Now we are sharing a flat and it's all gone downhill.
The Sun (2017)
Her music career certainly isn't going downhill.
The Sun (2016)
Many of them simply practise vertical migration, going downhill in all directions and staying in the valleys.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Ahead downhill for ¼ mile.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Now he goes swiftly downhill.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Here you'll get views of some of the world's highest peaks and from which you can enjoy miles of untouched downhill biking terrain.
The Sun (2016)
At the foot of the official downhill run, I sit in a mini grandstand amid a couple of hundred spectators.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It was only their third competitive downhill run together.
The Sun (2014)
No wonder she is used to going downhill fast.
The Sun (2014)
Forty years is a long time to ride downhill.
Christianity Today (2000)
You can only go downhill from here.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It just sounds like fast downhill skiing.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Their day was to go downhill thereafter.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
How and why can a team on such a high slide so fast downhill?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
She had just finished a downhill ski run and was waiting for her comrades at the bottom when she collapsed.
The Sun (2008)
His health and career go downhill.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
She is on a downhill path.
Oliver Morton Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet (2007)
And avoid running downhill if possible.
The Sun (2014)
Things just go downhill from there.
The Sun (2011)
Left downhill on path alongside lane.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
First half mostly downhill, last half uphill.
The Sun (2011)
Paradoxically, the illness coincided with the revival of a training career heading inexorably downhill.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
You won't be able to take that wild slalom downhill run through a hundred other emotions.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
There was a steep downhill from a mile out, and then uphill from 1,100 metres.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It's in the forest, but the beach is just a stroll downhill.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
What has made it able to deliver golfers in the way Wales unearths fly halves and Austria downhill skiers?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Barnet had had chances in the first half, kicking downhill and with the wind, but failed to take them.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)

In other languages
downhill

British English: downhill ADVERB
If something or someone is moving downhill or is downhill, they are moving down a slope or are located towards the bottom of a hill.
He headed downhill towards the river.
  • American English: downhill
  • Brazilian Portuguese: para baixo
  • Chinese: 下坡地
  • European Spanish: cuesta abajo
  • French: plus bas
  • German: bergab
  • Italian: in discesa
  • Japanese: 坂を下って
  • Korean: 내리막길로
  • European Portuguese: para baixo
  • Latin American Spanish: cuesta abajo

Chinese translation of 'downhill'

downhill

(ˈdaunˈhɪl)

adv

  1. [go, drive, walk] 向坡下 (xiàng pōxià)
  2. [face, look] 往山下 (wǎng shānxià)

n (c)

  1. (in skiing) (also downhill race) 下坡滑雪比赛(賽) (xiàpō huáxuě bǐsài) (场(場), chǎng)
    to go downhill (fig) [business, person] 每况(況)愈下 (měi kuàng yù xià)
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