Pace

[peɪs] or [pes]

解释:

(noun.) a step in walking or running.

(noun.) the relative speed of progress or change; 'he lived at a fast pace'; 'he works at a great rate'; 'the pace of events accelerated'.

(noun.) the rate of moving (especially walking or running).

(verb.) measure (distances) by pacing; 'step off ten yards'.

(verb.) regulate or set the pace of; 'Pace your efforts'.

(verb.) walk with slow or fast paces; 'He paced up and down the hall'.

(verb.) go at a pace; 'The horse paced'.

整理:康拉德--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

(n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.

(n.) Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.

(n.) A slow gait; a footpace.

(n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.

(n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure.

(n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.

(n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.

(v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.

(v. i.) To proceed; to pass on.

(v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.

(v. i.) To pass away; to die.

(v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.

(v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.

(v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.

校对:莎娜

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Step, tread.[2]. Gait, manner of walking.[3]. Amble (of a horse), pacing.

v. n. [1]. Walk (with measured steps).[2]. Go at a pace, go at an ambling gait.

埃尔伯特编辑

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Step, stride, tread, gait

ANT:Standing_still

辛迪校对

解释:

prep. with or by the leave of (expressing disagreement courteously).

n. a stride: the space between the feet in walking 30 inches a step: gait: rate of walking (of a man or beast): rate of speed in movement or work often applied to fast living: mode of stepping in horses in which the legs on the same side are lifted together: amble: (obs.) a passage.—v.t. to measure by steps: to cause to progress: to train in walking or stepping.—v.i. to walk: to walk slowly: to amble.—adj. Paced having a certain pace or gait.—ns. Pace′-mak′er one who sets the pace as in a race; Pac′er one who paces: a horse whose usual gait is a pace.—Keep or Hold pace with to go as fast as: to keep up with.

整理:玛米