Lowering
['loərɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of causing something to move to a lower level.
(noun.) the act of causing to become less.
乔安妮手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lower
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lower
(a.) Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
哈蒂編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Cloudy, clouded, overcast, lurid, murky.
n. Depression, diminution, reduction.
手打:菲尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Dark, threatening, gloomy, murky, lurid, overcast
ANT:[See MUGGY]
編輯:罗达
例句/造句/用法:
- 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.
- You still persist in your lowering treatment of this case of fever? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She bent forward, lowering her voice to mitigate the horror. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I beg pardon, ma'am, said Haley, bowing slightly, with a still lowering brow; but still I say, as I said before, this yer's a sing'lar report. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Fairway then lit a lantern, tied it to another cord, and began lowering it into the well beside the first: Clym came forward and looked down. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In fact,' said Mrs. Micawber, lowering her voice,--'this is between ourselves--our reception was cool. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- A cloud is lowering on the distant town, towards which I retraced my solitary steps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- When the diminution of revenue is the effect of the diminution of consumption, there can be but one remedy, and that is the lowering of the tax. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It means lowering the value of the stone, and cheating the rogues in that way! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
整理:劳埃德