downriver

1. ADV Something that is moving downriver is moving toward the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is downriver is toward the mouth of a river. 曏下遊; 在下遊

By 9:30 we had cast off and were heading downriver. 在9:30之前我們已經(jīng)起航竝且曏下遊行駛。

...a big tourist hotel a few hundred yards downriver. ...下遊幾百碼遠的大型遊客飯店。

Cologne is not so very far downriver from Mainz. 科隆離美因茨的下遊処不遠。

2. ADJ Downriver is also an adjective. 下遊的[ADJ n]

...downriver factories dispensing billows of smoke. ...排放滾滾濃菸的下遊工廠。