lower
美 [ˈloʊr]
英 [ˈləʊə(r)] 
- v.降低;减少;低下;压低
- adj.较低的;南部的;【地质学;地理学】早期的;下游的
- 网络放下;降下;小写
词形变化
现在分词:lowering 过去式:lowered 第三人称单数:lowers 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | (尤指位于同类物品或成对物品中另一个的)下面的,下方的located below sth else, especially sth of the same type, or the other of a pair |
| the lower deck of a ship 船的下甲板 |
| His lower lip trembled. 他的下唇在颤抖。 |
2. | 在底部的;近底部的at or near the bottom of sth |
| the mountain's lower slopes 山麓斜坡 |
3. | 朝海岸的;低洼的;向南的located towards the coast, on low ground or towards the south of an area |
| the lower reaches of the Nile 尼罗河的下游 |
1. | [t] 把…放低;使…降下to let or make sth/sb go down |
| He had to lower his head to get through the door. 他得低头才能过这道门。 |
| She lowered her newspaper and looked around. 她放低报纸往四下看了看。 |
| They lowered him down the cliff on a rope. 他们用绳索把他放下悬崖。 |
2. | [t][i] ~ (sth) 减少;缩小;降低to reduce sth or to become less in value, quality, etc. |
| He lowered his voice to a whisper. 他压低了声音悄悄地说。 |
| This drug is used to lower blood pressure. 这种药用于降血压。 |
| Her voice lowered as she spoke. 她一边说一边压低了嗓音。 |
习惯用语
lower the bar
降低标准to set a new, lower standard of quality or performance
| In the current economic climate we may need to lower the bar on quotas. 在目前的经济气候下,我们可能需要降低配额标准。 |
lower yourself (by doing sth)
降低自己的身份;自贬人格to behave in a way that makes other people respect you less
| I wouldn't lower myself by working for him. 我不会贬低自己的身份去为他工作。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Doug MacIntyre, senior analyst at the U. S. Energy Information Administration, said the cheaper crude should push gasoline prices lower.
美国能源资料协会(EIA)高级分析师DougMacIntyre称,原油价格下滑应会推动汽油价格走低。
My lower self had me believe that it was just a far out wish; much similar to my one of being a rock star.
那个堕落的我使我相信那只是个遥远的梦而已;就像是我想要成为一个摇滚歌星一样。
The Lower Peninsula of Michigan, to which the name Michigan was originally applied, is sometimes dubbed "the mitten, " owing to its shape.
下半岛的密歇根州,而密歇根州的名字最初是应用,有时称为“手套”,由于它的形状。
When you're standing and ready to move, continue holding the object close to your body to decrease the strain on your lower back.
当你站立并准备移动的时候,继续靠近你的身体托住物品,以减少腰背部的拉力。
America, with a younger population, can afford to keep it a smidgen lower.
由于美国的人口较年轻,退休年龄可以稍低一点。
For lower packing densities, flow of hot feed through the tube side was more beneficial to mass transfer.
在组件封装分率较低时,热流体走管程更有利于跨膜传质。
Invisible Hand: Does a quick price check and lets you know if the product you are looking at is available at a lower price elsewhere.
InvisibleHand(无影之手):当你查看某种商品的时候帮助你快速提供同类价格比较,告诉你别的网站是否有更低报价。
In the Bohai Sea, the wind speed forecasted by mesoscale system model is usually lower than the real one.
在渤海,中尺度模式预报的风速通常比实际风速低得多。
A scissor bite is preferred, but a level bite is acceptable. It is not unusual to see dropped (receding) lower central incisor teeth.
如剪刀状完全吻合的咬合是最好的,咬合稍微偏差一点是可以被接受的。但上下齿看起来不可以是明显地前后落差。
Her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin are all that remain of her original features.
她的上眼睑、前额、下唇和下颌仍然保留有她的原来特征,其余的就是新的了。
I did not wish to offend you, I must have mistaken you for one of the. . . lower classes.
我无意冒犯,我一定是把你和一个……下等人弄混了。我可以为你做什么?
Trying to lower your cholesterol by eating more fruits and vegetables and cutting back on saturated fats? Well, you've got it partly right.
还试着通过吃水果和蔬菜和减少饱和脂肪的摄入而降低胆固醇吗?这样做只对了一部分。
Firms are trying to draw in younger passengers and families with lower prices, as well as things like ice-skating rinks and cinemas.
除了添加溜冰场和电影院以外,游船公司们还通过更低的价格来尝试吸引更年轻的乘客和家庭游玩。
Later, it dawned on one of the scientists that this Homo Sapien child seemed to have the short, lower leg bones of a Neanderthal.
后来,它到来的一个科学家,这种人Sapien儿童似乎短,下肢骨骼的尼安德特人。
I generally start with a lower resolution and ramp it up later when I'm detailing the illustration, enabling me to work faster and smoother.
我通常从低分辨率开始画,直到后期添加细节的时候才将它放大,这样能提高效率,使过程更流畅。
The green is lower in front and higher behind so the fairway seems to be very straight.
果岭前低后高,因此显得整个球道非常直。
He said Sudan would have to lower imports to reduce pressure on the Sudanese pound, which has tumbled against the dollar.
他表示,苏丹必须降低进口以减轻苏丹镑的压力,苏丹镑兑换美元的汇率已经下跌。
Deleting from the lower right to the upper left maps to a strong, intrinsic mental model, so it seems natural.
从右下角到左上角的删除映射到一种强烈且固有的心理模型,这看起来很自然。
Her hand moved in its slow circles lower and lower as she continued to talk in her reassuring way and I continued my chattering.
她的手慢慢划着圆,越来越慢。另一边,她继续与我交谈消除我的顾虑,我则继续喋喋不休。
The top image shows the beginning of the coronal mass ejection, while the lower image shows the solar matter leaving the Sun's corona.
上图显示的是日冕物质抛射的开始,而下图显示的是太阳物质脱离日冕的景象。
The skeleton of the lower limb is divide into the girdle and the skeleton of the free limb.
下肢的骨骼分为带及“自由”下肢骨。
The salt water is passed through a series of chambers which have progressively higher vacuums and lower temperatures.
咸水流过一系列真空程度逐渐增高,温度逐渐降低的蒸馏室。
The upper and lower jaws possess straight tooth rows and the jaw arches are almost rectangular in shape.
上、下颌具有直的齿列,而颌弓几乎呈直角形。
For one reason, most biological effects operate at these, or lower levels of concentration.
一个原因是:大多数生物效应都是在这样的(或者更低的)浓度水平下起作用的。
The lower hem of his new overcoat rucked up.
他的新大衣的下摆起皱了。
For many oil exporters, the lower oil price presents severe difficulties.
对许多石油出口国来说,油价下跌将造成严重困难。
In other words, E is the lower part of-A.
换句话说,E是-A的下面部分。
The rule for stock valuation is that it should be taken at cost price or market price, whichever is the lower.
库存估价的原则是:按成本价或市场价估算,两数中取其小。
Perhaps Nim's absence from the screen today would lower Leah's status among her friends.
也许尼姆今天没在银幕上出现会降低莉娅在她朋友中的威信。
The motion was steamrollered through in the lower chamber.
该项动议在下院被强行通过了。
He bent his head lower, hoping that no one would see him closely enough to see that it was he who was pictured there.
他把头垂得更低一些,希望不会有人仔细打量他,看出他正是照片上的那个人。
I brought him in to help both sides lower their voices and start listening to each other.
我把他弄进来,就是想让他帮助使双方的情绪缓和下来,互相倾听对方的意见。
It was observed that the lower yield point was subject to a greater degree of scatter than that of the upper yield point.
业已观察到下屈服点比上屈服点易产生更大的散布度。
They pass through a sphincter at the lower end of the stomach and into the small intestine.
它们通过胃下端的括约肌进入小肠。
The wind near the ground carries most sand with it and so wears the lower parts of big masses of rock most.
靠近地面的风带走砂土最多,因此大块岩石下部磨蚀得最为厉害。
If the bulb of a gas thermometer is placed in successively colder environments, it records successively lower pressures.
如果把气体温度计测温泡逐一放进渐渐变冷的各个环境中去,它所记录的压强值也就递减。
Nixon shared many of the prejudices of uprooted, California lower-middle class from which he had come.
尼克松出身于被赶出家园的加利福尼亚较下层的中产阶级,他具有这个阶级的许多偏见。
Theoretically, one would expect the distribution of a fumigant to be more rapid at lower soil water contents.
在理论上,预计熏蒸剂的分配在土壤水分含量较低时会更迅速。
He was very like his son in face, only his brow was lower and narrower, and his mouth rather wider.
他的面貌很象他的儿子,只是他的前额低一些,窄一些,他的嘴稍微阔一些。
The top of the tree had been cut off to encourage it to branch (out) lower down.
那棵树的树顶已被截去以刺激树分枝向更低生长。
In a hazy way I saw and heard men rushing and shouting as they strove to lower the lifeboats.
我模模糊糊地看到、听到人们奔窜哀号,争着把救生艇放下去。
A good exercise is to press your body up from the floor with your arms, and then lower it slowly.
一项很好的体育锻炼是双手撑在地板上做俯卧撑。
A high wear resistance is a special advantage if it permits a lower weight per unit product.
高耐磨性若能使产品减轻重量,它就有突出的优点。
He was a small, dark, lop-sided individual, one leg being slightly shorter, and therefore one shoulder lower, than the other.
他是一个矮小,黑皮肤,身体不平衡的家伙,一只腿略微短一些,所以一边肩膀就比另一边低了些。
Generally a higher lignin content in a particular wood species will result in lower movement or greater stability.
通常,木素含量高的某些树种,其胀缩较小或相当稳定。
The top of the bulb CD must be at a lower level than mark B.
球管CD的顶应低于标记B的水平面。
Those who could not increase productivity lost money from the lower prices, and eventually had to give up farming.
那些不能提高生产能力的人,则因价格下迭而亏本,最后不得不放弃农业。
All these "subject" lands had populations at a level of intelligence and education very little lower than those of the possessing country.
所有这些“隶属”的地方,其居民的才智和教育水平并不比占有国的居民低多少。
Greater availability of health care in cities than in rural areas has led to lower death rates in cities.
在城市比起在农村能够获得更多的医疗保健,这就使得城市的死亡率较低。
Zinc is brought up from lower horizons by plant roots, and is held in the resultant organic.
植物根系从土壤深层吸收锌素,并将其保持在所构成的有机残体中。
Unilateral inguinal lymphadenopathy is usually a response to infection of an ipsilateral lower extremity.
单侧腹股沟区淋巴结肿大常是单侧下肢感染的反应。
The Shadow Dragon is slightly more accurate with its melee attacks, but many of its base numbers look a little lower -- on the surface.
阴影龙用它的混战攻击稍微更准确,但是它的大多数基数看起来稍微低--在表面上。
When you are young your standards are set very high, however, as you age, you will have to lower your standards a bit and a bit and a bit.
当你还年轻的时候标准定的相当高,但是随着年纪的增长,不得不一点一点的降低你的标准。
"Why would God lower Himself to come to Earth as a man? That's ridiculous! " So she and the children left, and he stayed home.
他说,“上帝怎么会贬低自己的身份来到人间呢?这太荒谬了!”妻子和孩子走了,他留在了家里。
The company wants to see if the software, which trains visual-related parts of the brain, will lower accident rates among older drivers.
该公司想通过这种训练大脑视觉有关部位的软件来降低老龄司机的事故率。
Salt has lower density than the surrounding rock, so it tends to flow upwards, pushing up the overlying layers of rock to form a dome.
盐的密度低于周围的岩石,所以会向上抬升,使覆盖其上的岩层形成穹顶状。
Every justice writes his own opinion in a case, and till recently the tribunal's decisions did not bind lower courts.
每一位法官都写下自己对此案件的意见,直到法院的判决没有限制下级法院。
Physicists don't know how much the excited quark should weigh, if it exists, but they have set lower limits on its mass.
如不美观受激夸克存在的话,物理学家们不知道它应该有多重,可是他们已经确定了其质量的下限。
temperatures will be even lower in the new territories . the cold weather warning will continue to be in force in the next few days.
新界气温会再低两三度。在未来数日寒冷天气警告会继续生效。
Keep your turban fastened and your sandals on your feet; do not cover the lower part of your face or eat the customary food of mourners .
头上仍勒裹头巾,脚上仍穿鞋,不可蒙着嘴唇,也不可吃吊丧的食物。
"The cost per revenue dollar of online ad systems is so much lower than" for offline advertising, he said.
他说:“花费在在线广告体系上的税收要远远低于传统广告业。”
Here, god also appears to be in the general bound same, can the distance out in less than ten times lower on! ! ! ! !
在这里,神识也似乎受到了束缚一样,能够探出的距离要比在下界少上十倍!
It makes little economic sense for a country to produce a good that can be purchased from another country at lower price.
这是毫无意义,一个国家的经济产生一个可以从其他国家购买以较低的价格好。
Is slightly bent over, his hands covering the breasts from the bottom of the post (not lower) to the nipple for pulling initiatives.
要稍稍弯腰,双手罩住乳房后从底部(不是下部)往乳头方向作提拉举措。
A cloth covered the lower arm up to the shoulder to obscure which hand might actually be connected to the body.
一件衣服盖在前臂直到肩膀上,来遮掩哪只手是真的和身体连接的。
therefore, it is possible for a lower privilege application to paint over the surface region of a higher privilege application window.
因此才使低权限应用程序能够对高权限应用程序窗口区域进行绘图。
The lower class into which many were born did not prevent them from trying to rise to a higher social position.
他们所出生的低等社会阶层不会妨碍他们努力追求更高的社会地位。
Therefore, it should not be surprising to see the index churn around current level for a couple of days before heading lower again.
因此指数再次下探之前在当前点位来回震荡是不足为奇的。
Pull the top half through the hole in the bottom half until it looks like this. Tie the lead rope to the lower loop of the inner tubes.
把上一半的内胎拉过下一半孔直到如图中所示。把牵引索绑在下面的内胎圈里。
During about 2 hours' flight, I saw a film and had a delicious meal. Then the plane began to get lower and I got to Xi'an safely.
在飞机上我看了场电影,吃了一顿可口的饭。大约两小时后,飞机开始降落。我安全到达了西安;
The stock market in New York blipped one point lower yesterday.
纽约股市昨天下跌一个百分点。
The greatest lower bound of A is also called the infimum of A.
A的最大下界边称为A的下确界。
The lower ends of the two hangers in Fig. 1-38 were at the same elevation before the loads were applied.
在图1-38中,两根吊杆的下端在加载之前位于同一高度上。
In the early 1960s a worldwide aerosol band was discovered in the lower stratosphere at 17-24km.
在六十年代初期,在17-24公里平流层下部发现世界范围气溶胶带。
He pitched the tune in a lower key.
他把调子定得较低。
I think there'd be noting lower.
我觉得做那号人最可耻。
The lower interest rates and declining oil prices have undoubtedly helped many developing countries in 1985 and the first half of 1986.
1985年和1986年的上半年,利率的下降和油价的跌落显然为许多发展中国家助了一臂之力。
Company profits were 5% lower than last year.
公司的利润比去年降低了5%。