come down

1. PHRASAL VERB (成本、水平或数量)下降，降低
   If the cost, level, or amount of something comes down, it becomes less than it was before.
   1. Interest rates should come down...
      利率应该降低。
   2. If you buy three bottles, the bottle price comes down to £2.42...
      如果买3瓶，价格会便宜一些，每瓶2.42英镑。
   3. The price of petrol is coming down by four pence a gallon.
      汽油的价格每加仑降了4便士。
2. PHRASAL VERB 落下;降落
   If something comes down, it falls to the ground.
   1. The cold rain came down...
      下起了冰冷的雨。
   2. The curtain came down after the first act...
      第一幕过后，幕布落了下来。
   3. A Boeing 737 came down on the M1 motorway.
      一架波音737降落在1号高速公路上。

1. When you come down to it, however, the basic problems of life have not changed
   然而，归根结底，生活中一些基本的问题还是没有变。
2. Interest rates should come down
   利率应该降低。
3. If you buy three bottles, the bottle price comes down to £ 2.42
   如果买3瓶，价格会便宜一些，每瓶2.42英镑。
4. The price of petrol is coming down by four pence a gallon.
   汽油的价格每加仑降了4便士。
5. The cold rain came down
   下起了冰冷的雨。
6. The curtain came down after the first act
   第一幕过后，幕布落了下来。
7. A Boeing 737 came down on the M1 motorway.
   一架波音737降落在1号高速公路上。
8. Clouds had come down and it was starting to drizzle
   云层压低，开始飘起了毛毛雨。
9. After the euphoria of yesterday's celebrations, the country will come down to earth today.
   经过昨天热烈的庆祝之后，这个国家今天将会回到现实中来。
10. He had come down with the flu.
    他得了流感病倒了。
11. German interest rates will come down before long
    德国的利率水平很快就会降下来。
12. Interest rates would come down as the recovery gathered pace.
    随着复苏的加速，利率会降下来。
13. Physical and ideological barriers had come down in Eastern Europe.
    物质和意识形态上的障碍在东欧已不复存在。
14. Computers haven't come down in price.
    计算机没有降价。
15. If you do something awful they all come down on you like a ton of bricks.
    如果你做了错事，他们全都会对你大发雷霆。
16. Right. What I want now is two volunteers to come down to the front
    好了，现在我需要两个自告奋勇的人到前面来。
17. Production costs come down every year.
    生产成本逐年下降。
18. Bill was sitting and daydreaming so his mother told him to come down to earth and to do his homework.
    比尔坐着空想，他母亲要他面对现实，去做课外作业。
19. Has your temperature come down?
    你热度降下去了吗？
20. Do you think your uncle will come down when we need more money?
    我们再需要钱时，你认为叔父还肯接济吗？
21. I can't come down till I've finished my last examinations.
    参加完最后的考试，我才能离开大学。
22. Since he left the company, he's really come down in the world.
    自从他离开公司以后，他真的败落了。
23. He has come down in my heart.
    他在我心目中不如以前了。
24. Examiners come down pretty heavily on mistakes in spelling and punctuation.
    主考人对拼写及标点符号方面的错误批评得相当严厉。
25. The price of tomatoes has come down.
    西红柿掉价儿了。
26. The custom has come down to us from our ancestors.
    这一习俗是从祖辈相传下来的。
27. Come down quickly, the ladder is unsteady!
    梯子不牢，快下来！
28. Many folk-tales have come down from a very remote past.
    许多民间故事是从遥远的过去流传下来的。
29. That family has certainly come down in the world.
    那个家族确实衰落了。
30. Things like this don't come down on one suddenly.
    这类事并非一下就落到一个人的头上。

verb

1. get sick
   1. She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital

   Synonym:    sicken

2. be the essential element
   1. The proposal boils down to a compromise

   Synonym:    reduceboil down

3. criticize or reprimand harshly
   1. The critics came down hard on the new play

4. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
   1. The temperature is going down
   2. The barometer is falling
   3. The curtain fell on the diva
   4. Her hand went up and then fell again

   Synonym:    descendfallgo down

5. fall from clouds
   1. rain, snow and sleet were falling
   2. Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum

   Synonym:    precipitatefall