downwards
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++down·wards /ˈdaʊnwədz $ -wərdz/ ●●○ (also downward) adverb 1 DOWNtowards a lower level or position 向下 OPP upwards Nina glanced downwards. 尼娜向下瞥了一眼。 Hold out your hands with your palms facing downwards. 把手伸出来，手掌朝下。 The body was lying face downwards (=with the front of the body on the floor). 尸体趴在地上。2 used when a number or amount becomes smaller 〔数字或数量〕减少的，变小的 OPP upwards The death toll was later revised downwards to 689. 后来死亡人数经修正减少到689人。3 from the chairman/president/top etc downwards used to mean that people of all levels in an organization, country etc are affected by something 从主席/总统/最高层等开始往下 Everyone from the chairman downwards is taking a pay cut. 从董事长开始往下都将减薪。
Examples from the Corpus
downwards• He too felt the spongy soil drawing him downwards.• The scale on which it registers experience can be adjusted upwards or downwards.• You have already met an example of this in the heat generated when the iron core of a planet separates downwards.• Dougal forced it downwards, as nearly vertically as he could manage.• The risk is that we carry on drifting downwards because there is no real impact on those expectations.• Yellow-brown leaves spun downwards from high branches, and the calm estuary waters could be seen below, from between the trees.• There were grinning gnomes worked into the iron filigree, running downwards helter-skelter.• And everybody knows from the Depratment of transport downwards that it isn't going to work.• We came to a path winding downwards through the trees.face downwards• Place a rubber band over your first and second fingers and hold your right hand facing downwards.• The children place their cards in the pack face downwards.• The refrigerator door was wide open, and he was lying just behind it, slumped face downwards.• Dinosaur shoulder blades had concave sockets facing downwards and backwards.• He was lying face downwards in the shadow of the short diving-board, fully dressed in a blazer and white linen trousers.• I found Goering lying face downwards on his bunk.• The body of a man lay face downwards on the grass.• Lie face downwards, palms on the floor at shoulder level, toes pointed.down·wards adverbChineseSyllable
Corpus a towards or lower position level
downwards
down‧wards /ˈdaʊnwədz $ -wərdz/
(also downward) adverb
1. towards a lower level or position
OPP upwards:
Nina glanced downwards.
Hold out your hands with your palms facing downwards.
The body was lying face downwards (=with the front of the body on the floor).
2. used when a number or amount becomes smaller
OPP upwards:
The death toll was later revised downwards to 689.
3. from the chairman/president/top etc downwards used to mean that people of all levels in an organization, country etc are affected by something:
Everyone from the chairman downwards is taking a pay cut.
down‧wards /ˈdaʊnwədz $ -wərdz/
(also downward) adverb1. towards a lower level or position
OPP upwards:
2. used when a number or amount becomes smaller
OPP upwards:
3. from the chairman/president/top etc downwards used to mean that people of all levels in an organization, country etc are affected by something:
especially in
Describing 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% down on the previous year.根据这份数据，780 辆车被盗，比去年下降了 26%。 ◆ There was an 11% drop in reported thefts from motor vehicles, from 1 971 to 1 737.机动车财物盗窃案件数量下降了 11%，从 1 971 下降到 1 737。 ◆ 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。