Lower
['ləʊə] or ['loɚ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) set lower; 'lower a rating'; 'lower expectations'.
(verb.) cause to drop or sink; 'The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir'.
(verb.) move something or somebody to a lower position; 'take down the vase from the shelf'.
校對:潘西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Compar. of Low, a.
(a.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
(a.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
(a.) To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
(a.) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
(a.) To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
(a.) To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
(v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
(v. i.) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
(v. i.) To frown; to look sullen.
(n.) Cloudiness; gloominess.
(n.) A frowning; sullenness.
校對:莱利亚
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Depress, detrude, drop, sink, let down, bring down, take down.[2]. Degrade, debase, disgrace, humble, humiliate.[3]. Lessen, diminish, reduce, decrease.
v. n. [1]. Grow dark, be clouded, appear gloomy, appear stormy.[2]. Frown, glower, look sullen, look black.
錄入:雷蒙
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Depress, decrease, reduce, bate, abate, drop, humiliate, sink, debase, humble,diminish
ANT:Hoist, raise, heighten, exalt, increase, aggrandize, elevate
SYN:Inferior
ANT:Higher, superior
手打:威特
解釋/意思:
v.i. to appear gloomy as the clouds: to threaten a storm: to frown.—adjs. Lou′ry Low′ery cloudy; Low′ering looking sullen: appearing dark and threatening.—adv. Low′eringly.
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例句/造句/用法:
- And particularly, whether they were ever admitted as members in the lower senate? 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In the sights were parallel slits, right, left, upper, lower. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The board on the fore part is lower than the others. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Small elevated tanks, like those of the windmill, frequently have heavy iron bands around their lower portion as a protection against the extra strain. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Placing one end of my harness strap in his hands I lowered him quickly to the ground below. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- He was conscious that Madame Olenska was looking at him under lowered lids. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- One by one, I saw these removed, lowered, and seized on. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Unseen we reached a rear window and with the straps and leather of my trappings I lowered, first Sola and then Dejah Thoris to the ground below. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- But, gradually his arm reverted home to him, and his glass was lowered and lowered until he rested it upside down upon the table. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When a large quantity of water is desired, strong machines drill into the ground and excavate an opening into which a wide pipe can be lowered. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The driver stopped his horse and lowered the metal sign on his meter. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Why yes, said Joe, lowering his voice, he's left the Church and went into the playacting. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I don't like these things, but if one carries them out faithfully they are not really lowering. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- A deficient, ill-tempered, lowering, stupid fellow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Some other method of increasing the production without lowering the quality of the printed sheet must be resorted to--and this is duplication. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- And, lowering his voice, you may as well go back again now. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He made no reply, but walked on with a lowering face. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But it's the heart that lowers me, it is the heart! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The gun is mounted on a disappearing carriage, which lowers it out of sight behind the breastworks after firing. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A more scientific statement, however, is that the cold vapor absorbs the heat units of the water, and taking them away with it, lowers the temperature of the water to the freezing point. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- While the crane proper is moving through the crane-way, this car travels across the crane, and at the same time raises or lowers whatever may be suspended from it. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- As is well known common salt mixed with pounded ice or snow lowers the temperature to a considerable degree, so there are other mixtures which will produce a still greater degree of cold. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- They are automatically dropped onto another elevator which lowers them to the point near where they are used in the final assembly. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- These conditions are provided for by conducting the evaporation in a vacuum, which lowers the evaporating temperature and avoids contact with the air. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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