1. The general manager downgraded the employee. 总经理将那名雇员降职。
2. Before long, the industry could face its own multi-notch downgrade. 不久后，该行业可能面临它本身大幅度的降级。
3. We need to downgrade it in our thinking from a goal, upon which our whole sense of who we are depends, to what we might call "a godly desire". 我们需要在思想中把这个目标从一个“目标”—--那是我们整个人的身份所依赖的事情----降格为一个可以称为“圣洁愿望”的东西。
英英解释
n.
1. the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends
2. rate lower; lower in value or esteem
