A down to earth person is the opposite of someone who acts important or proud.
VOA: special.2009.03.08
breaking down maybe, crashing, coming back to earth like Icarus, the over-reacher.
可能会损坏它,彻底的,回到地面,像伊卡洛斯一样。
And I felt that people here were the most, like, down-to-Earth,
我觉得普林斯顿的学生最踏实,
The person who is down to earth usually has both feet on the ground.
VOA: special.2009.03.08
I think that his deadpan way of bringing things down to earth when they get a little too highfalutin' involves the skill of a genuine stand-up comic.
我认为他是真的有漫画人物的效果,当他总是面无表情的’,让那些过分骄傲的人回归现实。
When we have both our feet firmly on the ground, and when we are down to earth we do not have our noses in the air.
VOA: special.2009.03.08
He's much more down to earth. He forms the human like a potter working with clay.
这个上帝更现实,他创造人类,就像陶瓷匠制瓷一样。
But the container breaks down in the earth within one to five years.
VOA: special.2010.06.01
He surely is the opposite of someone who is down to earth.
VOA: special.2009.03.08
Today we tell about the expression "down to earth."
VOA: special.2009.03.08
"What we are doing,folks, we are rolling up our sleeves and we are getting down to business and getting back to the common sense conservative principles that made this country the greatest country on earth, and we are not going to sit down and shut up."
VOA: standard.2010.03.28
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