- downgrade
 - ['daunɡreid]
 - n. 退步;下坡
adj. 下坡的
adv. 下坡地
vt. 使降级(过去式downgraded,过去分词downgraded,现在分词downgrading,第三人称单数downgrades);小看 
反义词
           - v. upgrade
 
参考例子
           - 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。
 
英文解释
           - n.
 - 1.the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends
 - 2.rate lower; lower in value or esteem
 
网络释义
               - downgrade
 - 降级; 使降职; 下坡; 降密;
 
- Downgrade Rights
 - 降级权;
 
- Downgrade Risk
 - 降级风险;
 
- declivity downgrade
 - 下坡;
 
- DGRADE Downgrade
 - 降级;