downshift

verb

1. （车辆）调到低速挡，换低挡
   to change to a lower gear in a vehicle
2. 减慢节奏（以减轻压力）
   to change to a job or style of life where you may earn less but which puts less pressure on you and involves less stress

1. VERB 放慢生活节奏（调换强度较低工作以减轻压力)
   If someone downshifts, they leave a job that is well-paid but stressful for a less demanding job and a more enjoyable way of life.
   1. Lynda now sees many of her clients downshifting in search of a new way of living.
      琳达现在发现她的很多客户都在调换工作减轻压力，寻求一种新的生活方式。
2. VERB (汽车)调低速挡
   If you downshift while driving, you change to a lower gear.
   1. He downshifted and turned the steering wheel.
      他调到低速挡，转动方向盘。

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 change down

1. Lynda now sees many of her clients downshifting in search of a new way of living.
   琳达现在发现她的很多客户都在调换工作减轻压力，寻求一种新的生活方式。
2. He downshifted and turned the steering wheel.
   他调到低速挡，转动方向盘。
3. But the move also mirrors the consistent growth in the number of Chinese leisure travelers seeking to go abroad, despite China's economic expansion slowing to 7.4% in the first quarter, its lowest level in 18 months as the world's second-largest economy continued to downshift.
   此举也反映出，尽管中国经济继续减速，但寻求境外休闲旅游的中国消费者数量的持续增长。中国第一季度经济增速放缓至7.4%，为18个月来最低水平。
4. In a vehicle with manual transmission, you may downshift into a lower gear as you slow down.
   手动档车辆，降低车速的同时，换低至合适档位。
5. Also, it is best not to downshift without your brakes, as it does not give the person who is behind you warning that you are slowing down.
   另外，最好别使用无刹车的减挡降速，因为这样无法给后车发出您正在减速的警示信号。
6. The deceleration downshift function is also active.
   减速降档功能也处于活动状态。
7. You can also downshift, to slow down, which puts less pressure on your brakes as a whole, allowing them to have an extended life.
   您还可以减挡降速，总的说来，您的刹车受力较小，寿命更长。
8. The upshift of valence band edge and the downshift of conduction band edge under tensile strain are responsible for that.
   这是因为外加伸展应力使得矽的价电带往上移动以及导电带向下移动造成。
9. Once this happens, push in the clutch, and downshift to a lower gear.
   一旦速度下降，踏下离合器，切换到更低挡位。
10. More importantly, JavaScript engines like V8 can highly-optimize storage for object literals, but have to "downshift" to slower methods if you add or remove individual properties to the object.
    更重要的是，例如V8这样的JavaScript引擎对对象字面量（objectliteral）的存储做了高度优化，但是，作为代价，给对象添加或者删除属性的方法性能将会下降。
11. No Manual Upshift or Downshift in Auto Stick Operation
    在自动变速杆操作中无手动升档或降档
12. What we need as we begin to downshift onto the the information highwany is not more information but new ways of looking at it.
    当我们开始进入高度信息发达的潮流中，需要的不是更多的信息，而是更多的角度去看待信息。
13. In a vehicle with manual transmission, downshift as you reduce speed.
    手动档车辆，在减速时应相应换档至合理档位。
14. Downshift of lower hybrid wave spectrum and accessibility
    低杂波波谱的下移和可近性条件
15. It is noteworthy that at 40 ℃ the pretreatment with FN or TFP which also is one of inhibitors of protein kinase C ( PKC), inhibited depolymerization of actin filaments after temperature downshift.
    若在40℃以外源性FN或对蛋白激酶C（PKC）具有抑制作用的三氟拉嗪进行预处理后，再转入33℃时便能抑制微丝的解聚。
16. Radio wave penetration tomography based on the centroid frequency downshift
    基于质心频移的无线电波透视层析成像
17. In order to improve the shift schedule and in allusion to the curve driving conditions encountered in the long distance driving process, the fuzzy downshift strategy is proposed and the fuzzy downshift controller is designed by using the fuzzy control technology.
    为了完善换挡规律，针对装载机在长距离驾驶过程中所碰到的弯道驾驶工况，提出了弯道行驶模糊降档策略，并利用模糊控制技术设计模糊降档控制器。

noun

1. a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle

2. a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one