Someone with both feet on the ground may not be as open and easy to deal with as someone who is down to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

One side was dense honeysuckle. The other was open and slanted down to a telescoped view of the city. The white cloud was directly in front of them.

一边是浓密的金银花，另一边很开阔，倾斜的路面,向人们展示了整座城市的缩影，那朵白云在他们正前方。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It is a much scarrier idea than saying I have this, I'm going to do it, I'm going to put it down there as opposed to being open to what may come and being uncertain whether that would be something good enough.

这和，我知道了，我要做这个，我想写这个，这种确定感相比,对可能的结果保持一种开放的心态，不知道,期待能否满足的未知感相比，更挑战一些。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

When I had waited a long time, without hearing him lie down, I decided to open a little -- a very,very little -- crack in the lantern.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

I'm going to open up a program called positive1.c. I'm going to scroll down to the juicy part here.

我将要打开一个叫做positive1，c的程序,我们翻到这个有趣的部分。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"It was like looking down into an open grave," he said later.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

It makes sense to me logically that I want to see it first when I open the file; so I scroll on down but only later is increment declared.

这个逻辑上对我是有意义的，打开文件的时候,我想先看到它，所以我向下翻,之后才声明increment函数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Down to earth means being open and honest.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The auto company shut down most of its facilities for the summer, but the Hamtramck assembly plant remained open, for employees like Leblanc to get the Volt rolling.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

But I was always a great believer, and I learned this experientially, of trying to keep your mind open and receptive and not be judgmental too quickly because that shuts down creativity."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

That's why Vander Haak was open-minded when the Vehicle Research Institute at Western Washington University, just down the road from his dairy, called with an offer to truck away some of his methane.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23