down stream

基本解释

As he rose to the surface, gasping for breath, he saw that he had been a long time under water; he was perceptibly farther down stream nearer to safety.
他露出水面，大口大口喘气。他发现自己在水中已经呆了很长时间；他意识到自己在向远处的下游漂去。
It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the well-being of all.
由于这样，一个盲目而又拙劣的政治经济学使公众的福利丧失，付之流水，使它沉没在深渊中。
On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jena was discernible, on the left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a propitious one in which to await the night and to escape.
在河右边下游，还可以辨认出耶拿桥，左边上游是残废军人院桥；待到天黑再逃走，这是个很合适的地方。

The water in the stream flows down from Blue Mountain Lake, a sacred place for the Taos Indians.
When the snow melted that spring, every stream became an angry river that raced down the mountains tearing up trees and bringing destruction.
"It is not just a case of understanding the activity at the volcano itself, what we are also seeing the effect of at the moment are the prevailing weather conditions because we are in a northerly air stream at the moment and that is bringing the volcanic dust from Iceland down over the U.K.

Simply throwing a new dam onto a river with a diversion would impair some down stream users prior right to use that water.
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Something that is moving downstream is moving toward the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is downstream is further toward the mouth of a river than where you are.
Downstream is also an adjective.