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向下

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Downward \Down"ward\, Downwards \Down"wards\, adv. [AS.
   ad?nweard. See {Down}, adv., and {-ward}.]
   1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course;
      as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or
      downwards. ``Looking downwards.'' --Pope.

            Their heads they downward bent.       --Drayton.

   2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery,
      humility, disgrace, or ruin.

            And downward fell into a groveling swine. --Milton.

   3. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from
      one to another in a descending line.

            A ring the county wears, That downward hath
            descended in his house, From son to son, some four
            or five descents.                     --Shak.

資料來源 : WordNet®

downwards
     adv : spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level
           or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and
           skied down"; "prices plunged downward" [syn: {down}, {downward},
            {downwardly}] [ant: {up}, {up}, {up}, {up}]