Retard
['rɪtɑːd] or ['rɪtɑrd]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; 'This drug will retard your heart rate'.
(verb.) be delayed.
手打:利--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.
(v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
(v. i.) To stay back.
(n.) Retardation; delay.
亨廷顿編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Check, obstruct, clog, impede, hinder.[2]. Delay, defer, postpone, adjourn, procrastinate, put off.
校對:维多利亚
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Clog, hinder, obstruct, impede, defer
ANT:Accelerate, expedite, promote
編輯:波西亚
解釋/意思:
v.t. to keep back: to delay: to defer.—adj. Retar′dant.—n. Retardā′tion delay: hinderance: obstacle: (phys.) a continuous decrement in velocity: in acoustics the distance by which one wave is behind another: (mus.) the act of diminishing the rate of speed: (teleg.) decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.—adjs. Retar′dātive tending or serving to retard; Retar′dātory.—ns. Retar′der; Retard′ment.—Retardation of mean solar time the change of the sun's right ascension in a sidereal day.
整理:奥拉
例句/造句/用法:
- The opposition of rival manufacturers could not in the nature of things long retard what was to become one of the nation’s main industries. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He had a few thousand regular cavalry left, but not enough to even retard materially the progress of Wilson's cavalry. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Let it be as thou wilt, said Rebecca, when eight days have passed away; but think not, and speak not now, of aught that may retard thy recovery. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Means were provided to start and to stop the car, and to retard its otherwise sudden fall and stoppage. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Neither the quality of the forces nor their numbers was sufficient to even retard the progress of Sherman's army. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There was constant skirmishing and fighting between the cavalry of the two armies, but this did not retard the advance of the infantry. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Opposition, even of the most strenuous order, has never been able to retard for long the use of an invention that simplifies industry. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The result would often be greatly retarded by free intercrossing. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Ten loaded hammocks retarded its pace. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It may be retarded; but that is all. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The collision had retarded our progress and now a hundred swift scouts were close upon us. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- In fact the growth of the newly opened Western country must have been indefinitely retarded if men had had to cut the grain by hand and harvest it in the primitive manner. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The heavy overhanging timber retarded progress very much, as did also the short turns in so narrow a stream. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It would be hard to find a line of business where progress would not be seriously retarded by an impairment of the present telephone efficiency. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Doubtless the scheme may have been used, in unjustifiable ways, as a means of retarding our emancipation. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The balance wheel moves very rapidly, and, therefore, its movement must be as free as possible from retarding friction, so its bearing pivots are made very small. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Although sunlight is essential to the growth of most plants and animals, it retards and prevents the growth of bacteria. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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