downtown英文解说

因为欧洲一带以前是多山的，一般居民都住在山上，而市中心是建立在平原的，所以人们要去市中心就要下山downtown（下山到镇上去），而上山便是uptown（上山离开镇）。其实英语很多是和他们自己的国家的历史文化有联系的。

downtown

双语例句：

在美式英语中，市中心的习惯表达为downtown。

downtown

英 [daʊn'taʊn]  美 [ˌdaʊn'taʊn]

n. 市中心区；市中心

adj. 市中心的

A new skyscraper has been put up downtown.

市中心又建起了一座摩天大厦。

短语

1、go downtown 前往商业区

2、live downtown 住在闹市区

3、move downtown 搬往闹市区

from downtown意思从市区投过来，形容远

That is when Musburger changed the language of sports forever when he kept repeating this ignorant notion that any basketball player firing off a long 3-point shot is shooting from "downtown." (Celtics announcer Johnny Most might have coined the "downtown" trademark in the 1960s, but it was Musburger who beat it to death.) I still hear in my dreams his wild gibberish every time Michael Cooper or Dennis Johnson drilled one of those long flat-line 3-pointers. "From way downtown!" Brent would scream. "Another one from Downtown!" It drove me mad then -- & it still does every time some fool blurts it out. It was quickly picked up and adopted by a whole generation of half-bright TV commentators every night of the bloody season. It has become part of the Lexicon now, & it will not be easy to correct. In gyms & Coliseums all over America (even in Greece or Korea), wherever basketball as we know it is played, there will be some howling Jackass braying, "From way downtown! Another 3-pointer! Is this a great country, or what?"是谁先说有争议，但是60年代就有这个说法了。