come down

phrasal verbphr v

a) BECOME LOWER

i. DOWNif a price, level etc comes down, it gets lower 〔价格、水平等〕下降，降低

It looks as if interest rates will come down again this month.

看来本月利率又将下调。

ii. SELLto accept a lower price 接受较低的价格

He’s asking £5,000, but he may be willing to come down to £4,800.

他要价是5,000英镑，但是他可能会作出让步，接受4,800英镑这个价格。

b) TRAVEL SOUTHTRAVELif someone comes down to a place, they travel south to the place where you are 南下

Why don’t you come down for the weekend sometime?

你为什么不找个时间来度周末？

Are you coming down to Knoxville for Christmas?

你要来诺克斯维尔过圣诞节吗？

c) BUILDINGDESTROYto fall to the ground 倒下；落到地上

A lot of trees came down in the storm.

许多树在这场暴风雨中给刮倒了。

We were still out in the fields when the rain started coming down.

下雨时我们还在田里。

d) come down on the side of somebody/something (also come down in favour of somebody/something)DECIDE to decide to support someone or something 决定支持某人/某事

The committee came down in favour of making the information public.

委员会决定支持将消息公开的做法。

e) informal to start to feel normal again after you have been feeling very happy and excited 〔情绪〕平复下来，恢复平静

He was on a real high all last week and he’s only just come down.

上周他兴奋异常，现在才平静了一点。

f) DRUGS informalMDD to stop feeling the effects of a strong drug 〔在毒品药性过后〕清醒过来

When I came down, I remembered with horror some of the things I’d said.

我清醒过来后想起我说过的那些话，心里很害怕。

g) LEAVE UNIVERSITY British EnglishBrE old-fashionedSEC to leave a university after completing a period of study 〔完成学业后从大学〕毕业

Examples from the Corpus

come down• We can't go out now -- the rain's really coming down.• One of the missiles came down in a heavily populated suburb of Beirut.• I think I'm starting to come down. Let's smoke another joint.• Snow was coming down so thickly I could barely see through the window.• Airline officials believe that the plane came down somewhere in the Andes mountains.

come to• Peter Lilley came down to earth.• What it comes down to is who is going to be the best on the basketball court for us.• Yes, it's a pretty shaky alibi when you come down to it.• Catherine came down to make deals with the fishermen.• I can't wear this sweater - it almost comes down to my knees!• But why else are so many games coming down to the final seconds this year?• So we come down to the pivotal question of what quality management is to be based on.• They came down to the verge of the lake, and drank and drank.• When he had smiled uneasily through the congratulations, and taken off his pads, Chris came down to them.• If you go into a mosque, you should wear sleeves that at least come down to your elbows.

come to• Peter Lilley came down to earth.• What it comes down to is who is going to be the best on the basketball court for us.• Yes, it's a pretty shaky alibi when you come down to it.• Catherine came down to make deals with the fishermen.• But why else are so many games coming down to the final seconds this year?• So we come down to the pivotal question of what quality management is to be based on.• They came down to the verge of the lake, and drank and drank.• When he had smiled uneasily through the congratulations, and taken off his pads, Chris came down to them.

come down on the side of somebody/something• I came down on the side of tax reform.• Sheer orders of magnitude matter, and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect.• I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative.• We have to come down on the side of the snowy plover.

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