What's the meaning of "There must be something down there"?
“Not being busy scares you?” he asks. I nod again. “Me too,” he says and gives me a yellow-toothed smile. “There must be something down there. Something frightening. If not, we wouldn’t be grinding our time so thin on all kinds of projects. "
What's the meaning of "There must be something down there"?
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我試試翻譯成漢語， 雖然我的中文不完美，但英語是我的母語，所以意思應該差不遠：

下面應該有東西。可怕的東西。不然，我們不這麼忙作各種各樣的計劃

(I also don't understand the meaning of the English, so it must depend on the context - 連我都不太了解這個句子的意譯，要看上下文。我直接翻譯而已)

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refer to:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/be+down

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