英:[ˈgəʊdaʊn]
美:[ˈgoʊdaʊn]
英:[ˈgəʊdaʊn]
美:[ˈgoʊdaʊn]
noun
a warehouse in a country of southern or eastern Asia
verb
intransitive verb
to go below the horizon : set
the sun went down
to fall to or as if to the ground
the plane went down in flames
to become submerged : sink
the ship went down with all hands
to admit of being swallowed
the medicine went down easily
to find acceptance
will the plan go down with the farmers
to come to be remembered especially in posterity
will he go down in history as a great president
British to leave a university
to undergo defeat or failure
chiefly British to become incapacitated
went down with … acute tonsillitis—Helen Cathcart
slang to take place : happen
Noun by folk etymology from Malay gudang
The first known use of godown was in the 14th century
1 One afternoon I took a jinrikisha ride on the Bund, past the great warehouses, or224 godowns as they are called, filled with goods or food stuffs for shipment to every port in China.
2 To the right hand and to the left were kitchen, godowns, servants' quarters, while on the side facing the great entrance gates boldly decorated with the swastika symbol were the family and guest rooms.
3 Will you godown with us, to fight for our land? We will help you fight for yours!
如果你们帮助我们夺回国土的话,我们也将协助你们的战斗。
4 No wonder the streets about the godowns had presented an air of activity at times.
5 He invited Desmond to accompany him to the godown near the river where the goods were stored--muslins of Dacca, both plain and flowered, Bengal raw silk, and taffeties manufactured in Cossimbazar.
6 Then, aided by the rays of the rising moon, they groped towards the godown, a temporary wooden hut, in which the petrol with other stores had been kept.
7 He led me by dark ways out of the fort, past the new godown, across the burying ground, down to Chandpal ghat.
8 Sometimes the godown would flood or have termites.
9 Bales of rubber were being weighed at a godown.
当时大包的橡胶正在货栈被称重.
10 “I will take you to his wife. The servants’ godowns are at the back of the house.”
11 Amazon is among them, its large, modern, red and white warehouse many times the size of a cluster of nearby godowns, ranging in size from a family garage to a basketball court.
12 Thus one thing after another left the house—to be stored in the godown of Kondō Rokurōbei, to whose clever suggestion was due this way of stripping O'Iwa of all she possessed.
13 We've a very strict regulation against entering at night any godown containing explosives, owing to the risk of fire.
14 Bales of rubber were being weighed at a godown.
当时大包的橡胶正在货栈被称重。
15 There stood the inevitable ancient fort, clad in creepers, and there were the usual rows of godowns, lime-washed and naked.
16 Reached Ferozepore at 12½ on the 9th; it is a very busy ghat, more so than that of Hurreekee: two large godowns were passed on the Company’s side.
17 They consisted of three godowns standing in a row, square rooms with brick walls and stone floors, each with a separate low doorway.
18 "They are in the old Chinese godown at the bottom of the garden," said Saxham.
19 Under the old culture system, coffee was bought by the government, and held in godowns from two to three years, until it had become mellow with age.
20 He could always pretend afterwards that his godown had been plundered.