Citations:down

English citations of down

Adverb

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  And thus it was: I, writing of the way And race of saints, in this our gospel day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory, In more than twenty things which I set down.

  For, having now my method by the end, Still as I pulled, it came; and so I penned It down: until it came at last to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

  Am I afraid to say, that holy writ, Which for its style and phrase puts down all wit, Is everywhere so full of all these things — Dark figures, allegories?

• 1788, Mary Cole (cook), The Lady's Complete Guide; or, Cookery in all its Branches, London: G. Kearsley, →OCLC, page 92:

  ſtew it gently till quite tender, then take it up and boil down the gravy in the pan to a quart

• 1825 June 17, Daniel Webster, An address delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill monument, Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Co., →OCLC, page 12:

  Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them.

  To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.

  The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there.

• 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:

  It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

  She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

• 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 48 resp. page 122:

  To her humiliation Jessamy found there were tears trickling down her cheeks.
  Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.

• 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

  Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

Chinese citations of down

"to download"

• 2000, 宁财神, “不见不散 [bùjiànbùsàn]”, in 顾晓鸣, editor, 《进进出出——在网与络、情与爱之间》, Shanghai: 上海三联书店, →ISBN, page 178:

  从这以后，我有很多机会接触电脑，终于在我满一岁的那天，趁他们不注意，我成功地down了一个ICQ下来。

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• 2004, 王涌, “.COM：我们可以拒绝在线吗？”, in 张忠, editor, 《2004年的中国——崛起的中国与世界》, Beijing: 中信出版社, →ISBN, page 213:

  终于，我的网络生涯有了比较固定的模式——白天的闲暇是在各处BBS上晃荡，晚上的闲暇则是看各类从网上DOWN来的电影。

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• 2014, 沈逸, 程序员在囧途, Beijing: 清华大学出版社, →ISBN, page 21:

  首先是要申请代码读写权限，权限申请好了之后，把一堆代码down下来，看了之后傻眼了，完全没有头绪。

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• 2015, 少少肥, 自修室‧學界嘅蘭桂坊‎^[1], page 30:

  麻美我無乜研究，睇嚟今晚要Down返套研究一下。

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• 2018, 做金庸的男人, 是咁的，我嘅職業係幫人寫遺書【特別增訂版】‎^[2], page 146:

  當然，嗰個流出post嘅回覆大多數係鬧阿Dick係仆街，但係人照鬧，片照down。

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• 2019, 賭Sir, Rios, 劉殿下, 常威, YouTuber新手到網紅‎^[3]:

  如果你個特效係YouTube度down返嚟嘅，就需要一個有去背功能嘅剪接軟件。

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