英语释义

1. to shift an automotive vehicle into a lower gear

2. to move or shift to a lower level (as of speed, activity, or intensity)

3. to put the engine of a vehicle into a lower gear

4. to begin to work or happen at a level that is slower, easier, or more relaxed

片语

slowdown减速；怠工；降低速度

underspeed降低速度；[力] 速度不足

英汉例句

• china is certainly downshifting , as evidenced by the weekend「s announcement.

  中国经济肯定在减速，政府周末宣布的经济刺激方案就是明证。

• there are a number of bestselling downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives;

  对于那些想简单生活的人来说，有许多很畅销的帮你轻松生活的自助书籍；

• according to the passage, downshifting emerged in the us as a result of .

  根据本文，美国出现放慢生活节奏的原因是。

• i deserve some time off, and have intentionally been downshifting to a simpler life, one that gives me time for computer games.

  我需要一些时间来休息。我主动放慢了生活节奏，使之变得简单，从而给自己留出了时间来享受电脑游戏。

• on the other hand, downshifting more than two gears is accomplished as a direct shift.

  另一方面，降档两个以上的齿轮作为一个直接转变完成。

• americans term 「 downshifting 」 has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality.

  生活速度”的实验已将我厌倦的借口变成了纯粹的现实。

• asia」s emerging-market growth engines appear to be downshifting in the face of rising inflation and interest rate hikes.

  在不断上涨的通胀率和利率面前，亚洲新兴市场的经济增长引擎似乎开始减速。

• by contrast, downshifting is relatively easy.

  相反，降挡则相对容易一些。

• curiously , some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the americans term 「 downshifting 」 has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality.

  奇怪的是，大约两年半的时间我写完两部小说后，我这个被美国人称为「放慢生活节奏」的试验，却使我太疲惫的借口变成了现实。

• there are a number of best-selling downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives;

  对于那些想简单生活的人来说，有许多畅销的自助书籍能帮你轻松生活；

• downshifting - also known in america as 「voluntary simplicity」 - has, ironically , even bred a new area of what might be termed anti-consumerism. (netem 2001, passage 5, paragraph 4)

  具有讽刺意味的是，「放慢生活节奏」--在美国也称「自愿简单化」--甚至孕育了一个崭新的、可称之为反消费主义的生活方式。

• many are turning to other ways of living, and downshifting is one of them.

  人们开始寻找别的生活方式，「慢生活」就是其中一种。

• students with master's degrees of this period began to compromise, usually by downshifting to a lower employment level, squeezing some undergraduates out of where they used to be.

  同期的研究生便开始妥协，自动降低就业平台，把同期的本科生挤压出他们本来在的地方。