downriver

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Below the barges glided downriver in the same stream that carried fallen trees and clumps of earth in the direction of distant Shanghai.
橋下，駁船上裝載著砍倒的樹木和土堆沿著下游開往遠處上海的方向。
The operational features of this system "downriver to the control structure near Venice, Louisiana," he says, "may provide a second line of defense against oil washing in."
“而且這個系統(tǒng)從下游到在威尼斯附近的控制結(jié)構(gòu)也許會提供第二道防線，進一步阻止石油的污染?！?他還說到。
During the 1990s, this river discharged over 100 million pounds of toxics downriver each year.
20世紀90年代，這條河每年向下游排放超過1億磅的有毒物質(zhì)。

The passengers and crew got onto the wings as water entered the plane and the aircraft floated downriver.

On beaching our raft downriver the guides managed to throw our freeloading passenger into the river.
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In Paris, Mr Meier's Canal Plus head offices are downriver from Mr Gehry's now-empty American Centre.
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Then a boatload of rowers is shown steaming downriver as the narrator speaks of the power of synergy.
NEWYORKER: The Olympian

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.
Downriver is also an adjective.