1. 嚴厲批評;斥責;貶低 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，他譴責了英國那位“抨擊我們自己人的天才”。 e.g. ...that chap who was running down state schools. 抨擊公立學(xué)校的那個(gè)家伙
2. 壓縮;削減;減少 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減本國的福利。 e.g. The property business could be sold or rundown. 可售出或削減房地產(chǎn)業(yè)務(wù)。
3. 減少;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... 但是調查也顯示，各公司正在減少庫存，而沒(méi)有生產(chǎn)新的產(chǎn)品。 e.g. Its $25m reserve fund had been rundown to around $8m. 其2,500萬(wàn)美元的儲備金已被減少到了800萬(wàn)美元左右。
4. （車(chē)輛）把…撞傷，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. 洛扎諾聲稱(chēng)克萊門(mén)特·勞埃德騎著(zhù)摩托車(chē)想把他撞傷。
5. (機器或設備等)逐漸損耗，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. 這些電池快沒(méi)電了。
6. see also: run-down
run down英英釋義
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