Today we tell about the expression "down to earth."

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.

因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I need you to sit down, relax and tell me what the problem is.

我需要你坐下，放松，告诉我问题在哪里。

You look 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Lieutenant Dan was alwaysgetting these funny feelings about a rock or a trailor the road, so he'd tell usto get down, shut up.

VOA: standard.other

Could you tell Michael Jordan he has to skip the next week's games and go down to help the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina?

你能强迫乔丹，放弃下周的比赛,必须下灾区去帮助卡特里娜飓风的灾民吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

This brought in their writing skills. After we talk about all of them, we will write the numbers down - now this is three and two more - before we even tell them the plus sign, you know,how to join things together."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10