run down
- 减少;降低;（车辆）把…撞伤，撞倒;削减;压缩;斥责;抨击;严厉批评;（机器设备）逐渐损耗，效能降低
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PHRASAL VERB 严厉批评;斥责;贬低
If you run people or things down, you criticize them strongly.He last night denounced the British 'genius for running ourselves down'.
昨晚，他谴责了英国那位“抨击我们自己人的天才”。
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PHRASAL VERB 压缩;削减;减少
If people run down an industry or an organization, they deliberately reduce its size or the amount of work that it does.The government is cynically running down Swe-den's welfare system...
瑞典政府正自私自利地削减本国的福利。
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PHRASAL VERB 减少;降低
If someone runs down an amount of something, they reduce it or allow it to decrease.But the survey also revealed firms were running down stocks instead of making new products...
但是调查也显示，各公司正在减少库存，而没有生产新的产品。
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PHRASAL VERB （车辆）把…撞伤，撞倒
If a vehicle or its driver runs someone down, the vehicle hits them and injures them.Lozano claimed that motorcycle driver Clement Lloyd was trying to run him down.
洛扎诺声称克莱门特·劳埃德骑着摩托车想把他撞伤。
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PHRASAL VERB (机器或设备等)逐渐损耗，效能降低
If a machine or device runs down, it gradually loses power or works more slowly.The batteries are running down.
这些电池快没电了。
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See also:run-down
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- use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
- At the end of the march, I pooped out
- Synonym: poop out peter out run out conk out
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- injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle
- Synonym: run over
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- pursue until captured
- They ran down the fugitive
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- move downward
- The water ran down
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- examine hastily
- She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi
- Synonym: scan skim rake glance over
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- deplete
- exhaust one's savings
- We quickly played out our strength
- Synonym: exhaust play out sap tire
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- trace
- We are running down a few tips
- Synonym: check out
数据来源：WordNet
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The property business could be sold or run down .
可售出或削减房地产业务。
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This government has systematically run down public services since it took office .
这一届政府自上台以来系统地削减了公共服务。
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Its $ 25m reserve fund had been run down to around $ 8m .
其2,500万美元的储备金已被减少到了800万美元左右。
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The battery has run down .
电池用完了。
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Ground water evaporatesand collects on the sheet until small drops of water form , run down the material and fall off into the cup ．
地下水在覆盖膜上蒸发并收集起来，直至水滴形成、沿着材料流下并滴进杯子里。
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The old man was run down by a big lorry .
那个老人被一辆大卡车撞倒了。
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Girls and boys , who burst into tears in rain now calmly let tears run down from their eyes , tell themselves they ’ ve got work to do tomorrow .
那个曾经会在大雨里痛哭的姑娘与少年，如今只是冷冷地让眼泪流下，然后告诉自己明天还有一大堆工作要做。
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I 'll run down and see you after work .
我下班后赶来看你。
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I 'm not going to run down University education .
我不想指责大学教育。
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The decision was taken to let the steel industry run down .
作出这个决定是为了让钢铁工业逐渐缩小规模。
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The coal industry is being run down .
煤矿工业正逐步停产。
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Doctor , there 's no reason to run down the little people .
博士，没必要欺负小人物。
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He is run down from working too hard .
他因工作太辛苦而疲惫不堪。
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Oh , can you run down to the art department ?
噢，你能去一下艺术部吗？
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Not quite Third World & but fairly run down .
它不完全算是第三世界国家，但也很贫困。
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The old worker was run down after all those years of hard work .
这位老工人因多年辛勤劳动而身体垮下来了。
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run down to that lake and watch the day begin .
然后跑到湖蛔看日出。
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I don 't feel very well . I 'm a bit run down .
我觉得不太舒服，有点疲乏无力。
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Why don 't you run down the street to my house .
你为什么不顺着马路跑到我家。
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That 's a lot of names to run down .
那要筛选的人太多了。
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Their house is old and run down .
他们的房子很旧而且状况不好。
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Keep your health strong at this time , lest you become run down .
此时要保持健壮，以防身体情况恶化。
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The business was neglected and is now run down .
生意无人照管，因此现在情况非常糟糕。
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Perhaps you are run down and need a holiday .
你可能身体疲惫，需要休息休息。
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run down They are running down a criminal .
1.追捕，追寻他们正在追缉一名罪犯。
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If he keeps working so hard he will certainly get run down .
要是他再那么辛劳的工作，他的身体状况一定会变得不好。
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She was run down just outside the office .
她就在办公机关外面被车撞倒了。
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She got run down outside school .
她在校门外被车撞倒。
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The boy was run down by a car yesterday .
昨天那个小男孩被车撞倒了。
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The doctor said she was probably just tired and run down .
医生说她可能只是疲劳因此身体状况不好。