from top to bottom

基本解释

The code gets quite complex because XML elements in SAX are read in order from top to bottom of the XML document.
代码变得十分复杂，因为 SAX 中的 XML 元素是按照从顶部到底部的顺序从 XML 文档中读取的。
In the largest airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice, the airplanes of Operation IceBridge carry an array of instruments to measure the ice from top to bottom.
在对地球极地冰川进行的最大的一次空中调查中，执行“冰桥行动”的飞机携带了很多仪器从头到脚对冰川进行了测量。
The judges liked the new egalitarianism of this: lest anyone be offended at the idea that a cascade falls from top to bottom, this new preposition makes the idea less hierarchical.
评委们喜欢这种新式平均主义：避免任何人因为某个从顶到底的暴跌遭遇而受伤，这个新介词赋予这种遭遇较少的层次感。

In many cases, a room is filled from top to bottom with useless things.
So in your mind, if you are now the computer program and you are executing this thing from top to bottom, what just has happened verbally is we are stepping into the line of code that says sort left half of elements.
在你们看来，如果你现在是计算机程序,正在从上到下执行一系列指令，刚才所发生的就是我们现在已执行到了这行代码,它告诉你要对左半部分的元素排序。
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In just a moment the hearts are gonna start flowing from bottom to top and the cookies are gonna start moving left and right and they seem to be somewhat synchronized with the music, perhaps based on trial and error by the student who implemented this one.
刚刚那一刻，那些爱心们从底部上浮到顶部,饼干人则向左向右移动,它们似乎都随着音乐的律动而变化着，也许这是那个制作该动画的同学,不断尝试的结果。
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You must pay the bribes that you must and tolerate corruption from top to bottom.
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If you search, paint, etc. a building from top to bottom, you search, paint, etc. all parts of it.

自上而下
State power from top to bottom operates through the peculiar bureaucracy which has been developed in China since 1949.
自上而下的权力运作则集中体现在中国1949年建立起来的独特的科层制运作中。