Lax
[læks]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) emptying easily or excessively; 'loose bowels' .
(adj.) lacking in rigor or strictness; 'such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable'; 'lax in attending classes'; 'slack in maintaining discipline' .
(adj.) lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; 'a lax rope'; 'a limp handshake' .
(adj.) pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet') .
黛尔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
(v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
(v. t.) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
(n.) A looseness; diarrhea.
校對:内奥米
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Loose, slack, relaxed, not tight, not tense.[2]. Soft, flabby, not firm, not solid.[3]. Remiss, latitudinarian, not strict.[4]. Licentious, dissolute.
錄入:皮埃尔
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Loose, vague, incoherent, dissolute, licentious, unprincipled, remiss, flabby,slack
ANT:Concise, coherent, compact, strict, rigid, severe, principled, conscientious,attentive
手打:内蒂
解釋/意思:
adj. slack: loose: soft flabby: not strict in discipline or morals: loose in the bowels.—adj. Lax′ative having the power of loosening the bowels.—n. a purgative or aperient medicine.—ns. Lax′ativeness Lax′ity Lax′ness state or quality of being lax; Laxā′tor a muscle that relaxes an organ or part; Lax′ist one holding loose notions of moral laws or of their application.—adv. Lax′ly.
編輯:梅布尔
例句/造句/用法:
- In those days the telegraph fraternity was rather demoralized, and the discipline was very lax. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In my opinion Farebrother is too lax for a clergyman. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I can only tell you about myself, that I have always been too lax, and have been uneasy in consequence. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The discipline on Omean was lax indeed. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- After tea Shirley reads, and she is just about as tenacious of her book as she is lax of her needle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
校對:内尔