run down

撞倒； 贬低； 追捕； 查出； （使）筋疲力竭

The battery has run down.(电池没电了。)

Alicia: You look run down, Brian.(艾丽西娅：布莱恩，你怎么筋疲力尽的。)

What follows is a run down of some of the major lessons from the book.(接下来的是这本书中主要经验的一些细节。)

At first he thought this eerie, but soon concluded rightly that the clock had run down.(起初，他觉得这很可怕，但不久就得出了正确的结论：钟已经停了。)

He wasn't run down by a commercial airliner.(Walters没撞上商用航班，相反，他继续飘行。)

"Some day," said Smee, "the clock will run down, and then he'll get you."(“总有一天，”斯迈说，“钟不走了，那时他就会抓住你。”)

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck, he apologizes to the truck.(如果一个英国人被一辆卡车撞倒，他向卡车道歉。)

I have run down the word in my dictionary eventually.(我终于在我的字典里查到了这个词。)

All rivers run down to the sea.(条条河水向下流入大海。)

Please, Peter, run down and get them.(求你了，彼得，快跑去拿。)

verb

1. use up all one's strength and energy and stop working

e.g. At the end of the march, I pooped out

Synonym: poop outpeter outrun outconk out

2. injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle

Synonym: run over

3. pursue until captured

e.g. They ran down the fugitive

4. move downward

e.g. The water ran down

5. examine hastily

e.g. She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi

Synonym: scanskimrakeglance over

6. deplete

e.g. exhaust one's savings
We quickly played out our strength

Synonym: exhaustplay outsaptire

7. trace

e.g. We are running down a few tips

Synonym: check out

1. 严厉批评;斥责;贬低
If you run people or things down, you criticize them strongly.

e.g. He last night denounced the British 'genius for running ourselves down'.
昨晚，他谴责了英国那位“抨击我们自己人的天才”。
e.g. ...that chap who was running down state schools.
抨击公立学校的那个家伙

2. 压缩;削减;减少
If people run down an industry or an organization, they deliberately reduce its size or the amount of work that it does.

e.g. The government is cynically running down Swe-den's welfare system...
瑞典政府正自私自利地削减本国的福利。
e.g. The property business could be sold or run down.
可售出或削减房地产业务。

3. 减少;降低
If someone runs down an amount of something, they reduce it or allow it to decrease.

e.g. But the survey also revealed firms were running down stocks instead of making new products...
但是调查也显示，各公司正在减少库存，而没有生产新的产品。
e.g. Its $25m reserve fund had been run down to around $8m.
其2,500万美元的储备金已被减少到了800万美元左右。

4. （车辆）把…撞伤，撞倒
If a vehicle or its driver runs someone down, the vehicle hits them and injures them.

e.g. Lozano claimed that motorcycle driver Clement Lloyd was trying to run him down.
洛扎诺声称克莱门特·劳埃德骑着摩托车想把他撞伤。

5. (机器或设备等)逐渐损耗，效能降低
If a machine or device runs down, it gradually loses power or works more slowly.

e.g. The batteries are running down.
这些电池快没电了。

6. see also: run-down