核心畫面
Think of an arrow pointing at the floor, showing which way something moves or faces. Downwards does not say where it ends up — only the direction of travel: away from the top, towards the bottom. Everything else the word does is that same arrow laid over something that is not a physical space: over numbers, or over the levels of an organization.
可以想成一支指著地板的箭頭，標示的是「往哪個方向」而不是「到哪裡」。downwards 不告訴你終點，只告訴你移動或…更多收起
可以想成一支指著地板的箭頭，標示的是「往哪個方向」而不是「到哪裡」。downwards 不告訴你終點，只告訴你移動或面朝的方向——離開上面、朝向下面。它其他的用法都是把這支箭頭疊在不是實體空間的東西上：疊在數字上，就是往小的方向調；疊在一個組織的層級上，就是從最上面那個人一路往下數。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
downwardsadv/ˈdaʊnwədz/
- 1
Towards a lower place; towards what is below.
- Gravity pulls everything downwards.
- 2
Towards something which is lower in order, smaller, inferior, etc.
- After the rise in oil prices, the economy headed downwards.
downwardsadj/ˈdaʊnwədz/
- 1
Downward.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。