call down

英 [kɔːl daʊn]

美 [kɔːl daʊn]

引起，招惹; 责骂（申斥）（某人）（

英英释义

verb

• censure severely or angrily
  1. The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
  2. The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
  3. The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
  Synonym:call on the carpettake to taskrebukeragtrouncereprooflecturereprimandjawdress downscoldchideberatebawl outremonstratechew outchew uphave wordslambastelambast
• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
  1. raise the specter of unemployment
  2. he conjured wild birds in the air
  3. call down the spirits from the mountain
  Synonym:raiseconjureconjure upinvokeevokestirarousebring upput forwardcall forth

双语例句

• Call it a down payment on your next house.
  就当作是给你们下个房子的订金吧。
• College graduates should answer the party's call to go down to the grass-roots units.
  大学毕业生应响应党的号召到基层单位去。
• The call went echoing down the empty aisles and died out in the distance in a faint sound that resembled a ripple of mocking laughter.
  叫声回荡在通道里，渐渐远去，直至最后隐约听上去像是阵阵笑声一样消失在通道深处。
• Neglect to join up a break, to adjust your ring-frame, to keep the roller belt in place or to keep your loom clean, will call down the wrath of the foremen or thugs.
  只要断了线不接，锭壳轧坏，皮辊摆错方向，乃至车板上有什么堆积，就会遭到毒骂和毒打。
• I'd been on a few of the long squads and been disappointed, so when the text and call came I went down to London and loved every minute of it.
  我也时有进入预选名单的时候，但通常都是以失望收场。所以当我收到通知以后，我非常珍惜我在伦敦度过的每一分一秒。
• Don't call down the gods, they can't save you.
  不要祈求神灵了，他们救不了你的。
• Call Center can cut down the cost, increase the revenue, improve the degree of customer satisfaction for the enterprise.
  呼叫中心可以使企业降低成本、增加收入以及提高客户满意度。
• Give me a call if you can come down on the price.
  等你们降价，再打个电话给我。
• If you don't change your ways, you'll call down the wrath of God upon yourself.
  如果你不改变你的做法，你将会受到上帝的惩罚。
• 71He began to call down curses on himself, and he swore to them," I don't know this man you're talking about. "
  彼得就发咒起誓地说：“我不认得你们说的这个人！”