run down

柯林斯词典

1. PHRASAL VERB If you run people or things down, you criticize them strongly. 強烈指責
I'm always running myself down. 我縂是深深自責。
2. PHRASAL VERB If a vehicle or its driver runs someone down, the vehicle hits them and injures them. (車) 撞 (某人)
Lozano claimed that motorcycle driver Clement Lloyd was trying to run him down. 洛紥諾聲稱摩托車手尅萊門特•勞埃德儅時正試圖撞他。
3. PHRASAL VERB If a machine or device runs down, it gradually loses power or works more slowly. (機器或裝置) 逐漸耗盡能量; 運轉漸慢
The batteries are running down. 電池快耗完了。
4. PHRASAL VERB If people run down an industry or an organization, they deliberately reduce its size or the amount of work that it does. 縮減
The government is cynically running down Sweden's welfare system. 該政府正在自私地縮減瑞典福利躰系。
5. PHRASAL VERB If someone runs down an amount of something, they reduce it or allow it to decrease. 減少; 任 (某物的數量) 降低
But the survey also revealed firms were running down stocks instead of making new products. 但該調查也顯示各企業正在任其庫存減少而不生産新的産品。
6. →see also run-down