change down

英 [tʃeɪndʒ daʊn]

美 [tʃeɪndʒ daʊn]

减挡; 换低速挡

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 减挡;挂低速挡
  When youchange down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
  1. Changing down, he turned into the drive...
     他减挡拐入了私家车道。
  2. I braked at the second corner and changed down to third.
     我在第二个拐弯处踩了刹车，挂上三挡。

in AM, use 美国英语用 shift down

双语例句

• Besides, having a degree in one of those fields doesn't mean she couldn't change careers down the road.
  除在这两个专业里有其中一个学位之外，就意味着她将来就不会改变她的职业。
• For high accuracy of electronic gauge, it can reflect minor change of pressure at down hole clearly and obtain information furthest.
  电子压力计因其精度高，可以更清楚地反映井下的微小压力变化，最大限度地获取地层信息量。
• On these discoveries the thesis then gets, nasal variation as a change in progress slows down its speed in evolvement and the structure of Baotou speech community shows a direction toward stratification model.
  依据这些发现论文得出，鼻韵尾变异作为一项进行中的变化，它的演变速度开始缓慢下来，包头言语社区结构随着社会结构的变化也出现向分层模式发展的端倪。
• You'll have to change down into second to get round the corner.
  你转弯时需要将车速调低到第二挡。
• Bashar al-Assad and his family-run security services and elite forces have hit on the worst possible combination: promising change while mercilessly mowing down all who demand it.
  巴沙尔阿萨德（basharal-assad）及其家族掌控的安全部门与精英部队采取了最糟糕的组合：一面承诺改革，一面又在残杀所有要求改革的民众。
• Changing down, he turned into the drive
  他减挡拐入了私家车道。
• Even his recreation consisted in change of study, laying down one subject to take up another.
  连他的消遣都是放下一个科目又拿起另一个科目的变换研究。
• Who knows how things might change down the road, and at least you'll have your 34-year-old mother's thoughts down on paper.
  谁也不知道将来会发生什么，但至少你们会有我这个34岁的母亲把想法写下来供你们参考。
• I braked at the second corner and changed down to third.
  我在第二个拐弯处踩了刹车，挂上三挡。
• You must change down now.
  你现在必须放慢车速。