2016年1月19日 星期二

down on, aboveground, underground


This should be a triumphant day for China. It reported that the economy grew by 6.9% last year, just a shade lower than 2014’s 7.3% pace. But if the data are so strong, why are so many people so down on China?

down on
Informal Hostile or negative toward; ill-disposed to: was down on jogging after his injury.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"It’s hard to believe that tunnels that can fill a foot per minute with floodwater could be safer than aboveground Vegas, but many homeless people think they are. No outsider is going to attack you down there in the dark."




aboveground
adj.
  1. Situated or taking place on or above the surface of the ground: aboveground nuclear testing.
  2. Operating or existing within the establishment; conventional: journalistic practices unacceptable to the aboveground press.

aboveground a·bove'ground' adv.
音節
 
abóve • gròund
  1. [形容詞]
  2. 1 地上にある,地上の.
  3. 2 埋葬されていない;生存している.
  4. 3 秘密ではない,公然の;体制内の[にある];〈映画・出版物などが〉(公に)制作された,出版された(⇔underground)
  1. ━━ [名詞] ((米)) 合法的な世界,公然と活動すること. (また overground)

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