A down to earth person is the opposite of someone who acts important or proud.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

I think that his deadpan way of bringing things down to earth when they get a little too highfalutin' involves the skill of a genuine stand-up comic.

我认为他是真的有漫画人物的效果,当他总是面无表情的’,让那些过分骄傲的人回归现实。

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A lot of professors here are pretty down to earth, I think.

这里的很多教授都很平易近人，我觉得。

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So he took his rope out though some say it was a huge rattlesnake and lassoed Sue to catch her and bring her down to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

He's much more down to earth. He forms the human like a potter working with clay.

这个上帝更现实，他创造人类,就像陶瓷匠制瓷一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The person who is down to earth usually has both feet on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

It was the most dignified newspaper in the world and he kind of decided that, in order to survive, they had to get a little bit more down to earth.

它曾是世界上最有严肃的报纸,默多克觉得,为了生存,必须变得更贴近生活

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Americans use another expression that is similar in some ways to down to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

breaking down maybe, crashing, coming back to earth like Icarus, the over-reacher.

可能会损坏它，彻底的，回到地面,像伊卡洛斯一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

When we have both our feet firmly on the ground, and when we are down to earth we do not have our noses in the air.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

And I felt that people here were the most, like, down-to-Earth,

我觉得普林斯顿的学生最踏实，

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He surely is the opposite of someone who is down to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

It is easy to deal with someone who is down to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

A person who is down to earth is a pleasure to find.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Down to earth people could be important members of society.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Today we tell about the expression "down to earth."

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Down to earth means being open and honest.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

But he overpromised,he overpromised, and eventually he was going to come down to earth."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

But the container breaks down in the earth within one to five years.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

"What we are doing,folks, we are rolling up our sleeves and we are getting down to business and getting back to the common sense conservative principles that made this country the greatest country on earth, and we are not going to sit down and shut up."

VOA: standard.2010.03.28