音标:['daun,ʃift] ;
v. (汽车等)调低速档
n. a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one
n. a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle
词型变化:名词复数形式 : downshifts
词性分布:
名词52%
动词48%

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学英语单词
ACC (accessories)
activated bleaching earth
actuating mechanism
alerce
alterniflora
amed
antique finish
ARCSE
attitude and heading reference system (ahrs)
avoirdupois ounce
barley wire worm
Binnen
bitter docks
burn-up factor
career goal
chemical waterproofing
chew off
cockhorses
coffman
coinquirer
collateral ligaments of joint of fingers
complementary bipolar ic
continuous tunnel furnace
controlled postmortem programme
crude rate
cusp-fossa relations
cycle billing method
de-fund
dimethyldichlorosilanes
Draba sibirica
drumstick-fingers
encryption scheme
eventualising
Faustian
flyer's fatigue
frame output transformer
freshest
fuckfests
Fufen
full of yourself
funfests
fyvel
Gardiografin
glampires
go far enough
high power led
high speed welding
host assembler
hydraulic calcium silicate
integrated data presentation
inter-marriages
JACS
jonathan trumbulls
kilo-
lacquer stripping method
lepidobatrachus laevis
loose-stone
low-light-level slow scan TV camera
mahaila
mandefro
microbarographic
minimum proteins
moisture regain
monoubiquitin
musk oxen
natural screen
Ngwempisi
non-interventions
nonindurated
nonstudious
oneirologists
OTECs
oxyuricides
Pars medialis
partial cash
pitch changing system
pneumatoscob
quadrireme
quadrupole quantization
rajah
relative fluidity of slip
rosenstiel
Satau
sensitive phosphor
software memory mapping
ST_media-and-publishing_broadcasting-organizations
sterile distribution
substantivity ratio
sulfoglycoprotein
synka-vit
tidal information panel
tied double changeover design
timeboxing
transeptae
tussock bellflower
two letter signal code
unexcusable
unselects
virtual memory address
vomative
warm language
wilderstein