下游
xià yóu
Pinyin
Definition
下游
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- lower reaches (of a river)
- lower level
- lower echelon
- downstream
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (used after a verb) give it a go
- 2 to do (sth for a bit to give it a try)
- 3 one time
- 4 once
- 5 in a while
- 6 all of a sudden
- 7 all at once
- 1 down
- 2 downwards
- 3 below
- 4 lower
- 5 later
- 6 next (week etc)
- 7 second (of two parts)
- 8 to decline
- 9 to go down
- 10 to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)
- 11 measure word to show the frequency of an action
- 1 to download
- 2 also pr. [xià zài]
- 1 land under heaven
- 2 the whole world
- 3 the whole of China
- 4 realm
- 5 rule
Idioms (20)
三下两下
- 1 quickly and effortlessly (idiom)
上下其手
- 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
上有天堂,下有苏杭
- 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
- 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
上有政策,下有对策
- 1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
上有老下有小
- 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
- 3 sandwich generation
Sample Sentences
琅玡是地名,中国曾有两个地方设为琅玡郡,影片的历史背景为梁国,加上皇室都姓萧,可以推断该剧的时代为南北朝时期的萧梁时代,又加上主角来自江左,也就是现在长江下游,安徽南部、江苏、上海这些地方,所以应该指的是安徽省滁州市的琅玡山一带。
"Langya" is a place name. There are two places in China with the name Langya county, and the series is set in the state of Liang and all the imperial family is surnamed Xiao, so you can infer that the series is set against the Southern Liang dynasty period during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period. As well as this the protagonist comes from Jiangzuo, which is now the lower reaches of the Yangtze, around the south of Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai, so it likely refers to the area around Langya mountain in the city of Chuzhou in Anhui province.
我已经安排好了,下午我们去实地考察。到时候我会介绍一些供应商和下游企业给你。
I have already arranged it and this afternoon we will go to the site and make an examination. At that time, we will introduce some suppliers and some downstream companies.