| 词汇 | example_english_downstairs |
| 释义 | Examples of downstairsThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. If the patient lives in a house with a downstairs toilet, a downstairs room may need to be turned into a bed-sitting room for him. Downstairs are the stable, the storage rooms and sometimes a fireplace. You'll have to go on downstairs out of the way. I can't talk to my friend because he won't let me go downstairs to see her. The great man's arrival was announced via the receptionist downstairs. Interestingly, although the phrases up there and down there seem as easy and familiar, upstairs and downstairs were six times more frequent. Upstairs and downstairs are common labels for a subordinate spatial category, levels contained within the house, and also specify a route to those levels. At the least, upstairs and downstairs indicates the early entrainment of a directional spatial term with a route. When she hears footsteps downstairs, she asks nicely for the "blessed visitor," whoever it is, to bring up a container of food for her. Moreover, the customers downstairs seemed to be more reactive to other customers. Has a bathroom downstairs, but his bedroom and toilet are upstairs. Since the bathroom serves two bedrooms upstairs, and one study bedroom downstairs, this is logically located at the half-level. In response, he takes it back downstairs with him on his way out. Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows-she had evidently shut up the top f loor of the house. A third of the respondents overcame this limitation by seeking leisure in the semi-public void deck space downstairs. The predominant spatial location terms used to refer to rooms at an elevation were up and down or upstairs and downstairs. Downstairs are all of the necessary ingredients to make iced tea. A downstairs lavatory, the possibility of a downstairs shower, slightly wider doors and a lack of steps are features. 111 such as walking forward and backward, turning around, climbing upstairs and downstairs, and jogging. The third man lived alone in a large flat, and the fourth lived with his son in a detached house : the son lived downstairs and the father upstairs. We went downstairs i to watch them. There were all these commotions, all these negotiations, and all these conversations downstairs last week. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Would he look into the matter further, and, in the course of it, would he look into the use of private dining rooms downstairs? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By moving downstairs she was deceived into becoming a decontrolled tenant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If a man comes into my office and begins to talk to me, well, he had better slip downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we are lucky, we can buy them a cup of tea or coffee downstairs in the cafeteria. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps one could be displayed in our archive near the old annunciator downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If there are fewer than twenty downstairs or ten upstairs the premises are already exempted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not extraordinary, in our present plight, that this muddled and asinine proposal should be upstairs and downstairs at the same time? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, a healthy crop of mushrooms can be grown in the little downstairs bedrooms because of the damp. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would like to have somewhere where the kids just walk downstairs and be outside. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, it is all very well to dissemble one's love, but why kick us downstairs? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The cuts in conversions in homes to provide downstairs lavatories for people who are no longer capable of climbing stairs is also to be deplored. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of the clubs and lounges have single narrow exits and entrances either upstairs or downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He put on his frock-coat and silk hat, and took his overcoat over his arm, and together they walked downstairs into safety. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Downstairs the man roughly handled the old widow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were a happy team both upstairs and downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not count compared with walking under ladders, missing the step going downstairs, heaters in the home and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another example comes from central-heating brochures which claim two minimum operating temperatures for both upstairs and downstairs respectively. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In those circumstances, what chance will a bus driver, a postman, or a person serving in our canteen downstairs stand? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps they need a downstairs toilet or a stair lift to enable them to stay in their own home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have one small bedroom and one small downstairs room which serves as a combined kitchen, living room and bathroom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would like to see three bedrooms in every cottage, rather than a parlour and a living-room downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, the adaptations are very much greater than simply a downstairs lavatory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was fulfilling a long-standing educational engagement downstairs, which had a threefold purpose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The refuge-room really meant that the average citizen was to stay downstairs at home until his house fell about his ears. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The rooms in a house, downstairs and upstairs, are counted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have often talked to staff, especially the catering staff downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Downstairs in this building, almost in the dungeons, we organised such a meeting and had a discussion on the subject. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The parish registers, of course, were downstairs in the church chest, the safe in which modern law demands they should be placed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They could be taken downstairs for a cup of tea. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been in the position of the people who were playing the piano in the room downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In this building we have the kirk downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We would not be very happy downstairs if that were the case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The toilets in my house are upstairs, as are the bedrooms, and the kitchen and living area are downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The excuse given was that there were plenty of seats downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The cloakroom was so unsuitalde a place for the doctor to attend to her that she was brought downstairs in the lift. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are building four-bedroom type of houses, because we in the north do not believe in sleeping downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If a bathroom is needed downstairs as well as one upstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They know only too well about the upstairs-downstairs mentality in here. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The man is unemployed, and the woman is unable to come downstairs because of her condition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then, if there is a row, it is a family row and nothing to do with the people upstairs or downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am trying to get a downstairs flat from the corporation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As she grew older she found it more and more onerous to go downstairs—true it was only nine stairs—to fetch water. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Just before they moored, the mate went downstairs and changed out of his bargee's clothes into a blue serge suit and a nice knotted handkerchief. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that it would be generally agreed that we all want to encourage maximum public access to our proceedings upstairs and downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have virtually closed the upper parts of their houses and are living almost entirely downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 About 70 of our fellow subjects are downstairs surrounded by a cordon of police and corralled by various steel and iron railings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Procedure-wise we are upstairs, although we are sitting downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A whole estate could be transferred just because someone had gone to another place, to a happy home, either upstairs or downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because of problems elsewhere, some exhibitions are going on downstairs, tucked away in the corner. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The fact that heat rises seemed to be ignored, so the bedrooms were heated moderately well but not the downstairs rooms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Only one in 10 homes has what the police regard as good security arrangements—mortice locks on doors and window locks on at least downstairs windows. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They did not attempt to take me downstairs again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At least with a deputising service there is a nice large driver sitting in the car downstairs to provide some form of back-up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The situation reminds me of an upstairs-downstairs scene. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I walked in, and in that room downstairs there was a young lady lying in bed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The experience was nicely done—the car was waiting downstairs to whisk me off to the plane, for example. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a system can save lives, and it provides enormous reassurance to those living alone, upstairs or downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Going downstairs is more dangerous than going upstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that some of those machines were transferred to the interview rooms downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the cold months it costs £11 or £12 a month, and then only for downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I may have to make an appearance in the barber's shop downstairs when it opens. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the first recommendations was that every house should have a downstairs lavatory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does that mean that they have more than one room downstairs? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I went downstairs earlier today and bought myself a 30 g packet of crisps. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He went downstairs for the customer to sign the agreement and write out his cheque. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was no room in the room downstairs for a cot or bed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of my children is lying in bed injured through falling downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are two downstairs rooms and three bedrooms upstairs, and all the necessary fittings, bath, and other accommodation that is required in a cottage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Moreover, some of the specialist stuff none of us fully understands, whether it is taken upstairs or downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had two days upstairs, and we are not to get two hours downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps it was right to dissemble their love, but why did they kick us downstairs? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the events at home father could celebrate the occasion and bring all his friends, perhaps not upstairs but certainly downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, right away—someone downstairs is waiting for your bed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are they commissioned and do they use the officers' mess, or do they associate with the lads downstairs? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A constituent of mine told me about her husband whose situation meant that they had to have a downstairs toilet. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is only one man to every station, upstairs or downstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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