downward
向下,向下的,向下看,往下看
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- : Also downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- : down from a source or beginning: As the river flows downward, it widens.
- : from a past time, predecessor, or ancestor: The estate was handed downward from generation to generation.
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- : moving or tending to a lower place or condition.
- : descending from a source or beginning.
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“I’m hopeful the downward trend in positive cases means that we can start shifting our focus on reopening things and less on enforcement,” he said.
The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to turn emissions downward.
In theory, those policies should also help ease the burden to families of raising children, thus slowing the downward spiral in the nation’s birth rate.
For a country whose economy has been on a downward slope since demonetisation in 2016, India’s management of the pandemic proved to be the final nail in the coffin.
Be aware there is some visual distortion with these lenses when looking downward.
The now-convicted felons will hear their sentences in January, but their story continues to spiral downward.
This downward spiral involving local power politics was obvious to the Americans in the valley.
To his fellow survivors and to the audience, this delusion indicates another slip on a downward spiral.
All of these rules grew organically from the community rather than being dictated downward by a central authority.
The number of families who struggle to put food on the table has barely inched downward, even though employment is up.
Now here was a lover's meeting, not lacking the shy, downward glance of dark eyes as steel-blue eyes flashed frank admiration.