It has several meanings. One meaning is that a person who never settles down in one place will not be successful.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Why is it down?

为什么会这样呢

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

To get down to it, you have to cut away what is not true, what is inflated, beside the point, excess, ornament.

更直接点，你们要去掉不真实的，除了这点还有膨胀的，过量的和装饰的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I said, "Your old court house is kinda run down,He said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town".

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Wrev w reversible. in this case here let's see this is it's a pressure is going down.

曲线下的面积，可逆过程的功,这个过程中。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Old crust is destroyed as it rolls down into the hot area and melts again.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

It slows us down, yes, but this slowing down is a means of enriching what we finally grasp to be the meaning of a text.

它阻碍了我们的阅读,它阻碍了我们的阅读，但是同时也丰富了文本意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The heel of the shoe is bigger and heavier than other parts of the shoe, so it would seem more likely to come down first.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

So finger-pointing at the start of each list, 6 is indeed less than 8 so I'm gonna write it down first.

手指指向列表的开始，6肯定比,8小，我先把它写下来。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

After sod is in place, it needs to be pressed down firmly.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

But it is a very handy way of thinking about, not just how to program, but how to break problems down into nice sized chunks.

但是它确实是一种很方便的思考方式，不仅仅限于编程序,在将程序分解为小部分时也很有用。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It is easy to deal with someone who is down to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

And if you go back to here and click on Archive Notes, it is the fourth button down that will take you to something that looks like this.

如果你们回到这来，点击存档笔记，是倒数第四个,你们会看到像这样的情况。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But it slows down in water that is not deep.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Part of it is, it takes me an hour and half to settle myself down enough, that I'm actually paying attention and, be more aware of what happening.

每一次，都需要一个半小时,来让我的头脑镇静下来，然后我才能真正地集中注意，感受身边发生的事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

When a baby is put face down in a bed, it begins to re-breathe carbon dioxide, which is toxic.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

But now, the Web is competing with it, so they're scaling down the size of the paper and trying to survive.

但是现在,网络在与它竞争,所以他们减小了版面以求生存

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"And so he is having trouble selling this health care policy, which is unpopular, but it is also dragging him down,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

What's shown in this diagram is the progress of the developing embryo as it travels in time, down the fallopian tube.

这张图上显示的,就是胚胎发育的过程,是按照它在输卵管中移动的时间排序的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"The international consensus about maintaining this closure of Gaza has broken down badly and it is no longer sustainable."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Usually, the picture is that they are coming from the north or the northeast and pressing down into it.

他们通常来自于北方,或者东北,使用武力手段进入了迈锡尼

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"It appears that cell contact and landline contact is either down or so busy that we definitely cannot get through.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

So Aaron, feeling the heat, makes a golden calf, and the people bow down to it, and someone declares, "This is your God, oh Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt."

所以亚伦，感受到躁动，造了一只金牛犊，人们朝它下拜，有人说，“这就是上帝，犹太人，这就是把你们带出埃及的上帝“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"I have to cut down . It is an Indian wedding, so you cannot do without gold, so I have to give,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Top-down processing is an example of when you know what something is you hear it that way.

举例来说,自上而下加工就是,当你知道某句话是什么的时候,你便会按照这句话去听

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"The first thing is not numbers,". "It is to find and fine-tune the right approach to implement the strategy already laid down.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Death is basically just the breaking down of the body, on the physicalist point of view, so that it no longer functions properly.

死亡从根本上说就是我们肉体的损坏,在物理主义看来,肉体再也不能正常工作了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"It is going to have to come down. It is too high, and I think everybody understands this.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

Whereas the--if I take the rhythm out of the Ninth Symphony really Beethoven there is just going up and down a scale so it's very conjunct.

无论哪里,如果我将第九交响曲的,节奏单挑出来,你就会发现贝多芬这里,仅仅是一个个升或降的音阶,这是级进的典型例子

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Then you put something else that you know in your mind, which is that the highest point is the point when it's neither going up nor coming down.

然后你就想到了些东西,也就是说,最高点,就是那个既不上升也不下降的点

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选