slow
美 [sloʊ]
英 [sləʊ] 
- adj.慢;缓慢的;迟缓的;耗时的
- v.减缓
- adv.缓慢地;慢速地
- 网络减速
词形变化
比较级:slower 最高级:slowest 第三人称单数:slows 现在分词:slowing 过去式:slowed 反义词
英汉双解
速度低not fast
1. | 缓慢的;迟缓的;耗时的;慢的not moving, acting or done quickly; taking a long time; not fast |
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| Progress was slower than expected. 进展比预计的缓慢。 |
| The country is experiencing slow but steady economic growth. 国家经济正在缓慢但稳步地增长。 |
| Collecting data is a painfully slow process. 收集材料的过程慢得让人难受。 |
| a slow, lingering death 缓慢而拖延时日的死亡 |
| Oh you're so slow; come on, hurry up! 哎哟,你可真慢;加把劲,快点! |
| The slow movement opens with a cello solo. 慢乐章开头是一段大提琴独奏。 |
| She gave a slow smile. 她慢慢地笑了笑。 |
2. | 慢速的;低速的not going or allowing you to go at a fast speed |
| I missed the fast train and had to get the slow one(= the one that stops at all the stations) . 我误了快车,只得坐慢车。 |
拖延with delay
3. | 迟迟不…;不乐意;慢吞吞的hesitating to do sth or not doing sth immediately |
| She wasn't slow to realize what was going on. 她很快意识到出了什么事。 |
| His poetry was slow in achieving recognition. 他的诗迟迟得不到赏识。 |
| They were very slow paying me. 他们迟迟不付钱给我。 |
不聪明not clever
4. | 迟钝的;笨的;理解力差的not quick to learn; finding things hard to understand |
| He's the slowest in the class. 他是班里最迟钝的。 |
不忙碌not busy
5. | 不忙碌的;清淡的;冷清的not very busy; containing little action |
| Sales are slow(= not many goods are being sold) . 销售不旺。 |
表;钟watch/clock
6. | [nbn] 慢showing a time earlier than the correct time |
| My watch is five minutes slow(= it shows 1.45 when it is 1.50) . 我的手表慢五分钟。 |
摄影in photography
7. | (胶片)曝光慢的slow film is not very sensitive to light |
| Could you go a little slower? 你能走慢点吗? |
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| slow-moving traffic 缓慢行进的车辆 |
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1. | [i][t] (使)放慢速度,减缓,松劲to go or to make sth/sb go at a slower speed or be less active |
| Economic growth has slowed a little. 经济增长稍有减缓。 |
| The bus slowed to a halt . 公共汽车减速停了下来。 |
| The car slowed down as it approached the junction. 汽车在驶近交叉路口时放慢了速度。 |
| The game slowed up little in the second half. 比赛节奏在下半场几乎没有减慢。 |
| You must slow down(= work less hard) or you'll make yourself ill. 你得松松劲,不然会累病的。 |
| The ice on the roads was slowing us down. 公路上有冰,减缓了我们的速度。 |
| We hope to slow the spread of the disease. 我们希望能够减缓疾病的传播速度。 |
习惯用语
do a slow burn
慢慢生起气来to slowly get angry
go slow (on sth)
(对某事)热情减退to show less enthusiasm for achieving sth
| The government is going slow on tax reforms. 政府对于税务改革渐渐失去了热情。 |
英汉解释
adj. | 2. 迟钝的,笨的;没精神的,不活泼的;(表演等)没趣的 |
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v. | 1. 使慢,开慢,拖延 (down up off) 使呆滞 |
英英解释
例句
To make cold antihydrogen, the experimenters must slow down the antiprotons to a temperature similar to that of the positrons.
要制作冷的反氢,实验者必须将反质子减缓到与正子相近的温度。
Kostya interpreted this as a signal to drive faster, but when he accelerated Ivetta told him to slow down.
克斯特亚把这句话看做是让他开快点的一个信号,但是当他加速时,艾薇塔却告诉他慢下来。
Maybe with us doing our share, we might be able to slow down the visits from Fort Riley officers.
或许我们彼此分享经历的话,我们两个更应该放慢访问FortRiley官员的速度。
Instead, marine biologists ply the area, studying the atoll's slow comeback and trying to help it along.
海洋生物学家会巡逻此区,研究环礁的缓慢复育过程,帮助生态回复。
Then it began to act like yeast used in slow-fermenting lagers, settling to the bottom of the tank but not going dormant.
然后它们开始像用于慢性发酵的储藏啤酒的酵母一样活动,深入酿造箱底部,却又不休眠。
In a vehicle with manual transmission, you may downshift into a lower gear as you slow down.
手动档车辆,应在降低车速的同时换低档位至适合的位置。
Lead singer Frankie Beverly's natural rhythm seems to be in the slow lane, so Greatest Slow Jams is where he and the group really thrive.
主唱弗兰基富康的自然节奏似乎是在慢车道,所以果酱是最伟大的慢,他和该集团真正兴旺。
The tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.
乌龟一刻不停,虽然爬得很慢,但一直都在朝终点坚持不懈地前进。
AS I sit in a shadowy corner, I observe a slow and gradual elongation of his mouth.
坐在一个暗角落里我观察到他的嘴慢慢而逐渐地伸长。
Here most of the streets are narrow, and traffic is often very slow.
这里的大多数街道都很狭窄,交通往往十分缓慢。
When you're having a slow day so you slip out for a matinee at the movies, remind yourself how terrific it is to set your own hours.
如果哪天比较清闲,溜到电影院看个白天场,提醒自己:可以自己安排时间,这是多么了不起。
as the slow surfing of the Web on analog phone lines is often dubbed.
通过模拟电话线进行的慢吞吞的网上冲浪。
Know you are split times so you know if you were quick or slow when you took a particular line through a section.
了解自己在计时点的时间,你就了解了自己通过某一部分特定路线时的快慢。
Analysts said the statement may slow the dollar's decline, but would not alter the currency's broad weakness.
分析师表示,G7声明可能会放缓美元跌势,但不会改变美元整体颓势。
When he took the pipe, he left the store with slow unsure steps.
当他在管,他离开了商店缓慢不确定的步骤。
If it does, then it's time to be proactive: Assume people are just as annoyed when your site is slow, and then strive to fix it.
是的话就要做好心理准备了:假设人们正因其速度缓慢而不满的Web站点就是您的站点,然后努力转变这种状况。
Although it was relatively easy to start walking and change direction, it was harder to slow down and stop.
走路或转向其实相当简单,但想慢下来或停下脚步,就有点难了。
There was no ill-fitting glove, no dream team, no slow-motion car chase, and no plaintive wail of a dog.
没有戴不上的手套,没有梦幻律师队,没有慢镜头的汽车追捕,也没有狗的哀号[1]。
Unless the West, including America, is prepared to help out on a large scale, he will be under pressure to go slow.
如果西方包括美国准备大规模帮助时,他将受到压力而放慢步伐。
This, however, was no reason to slow down efforts or to shift the work carried out by the IGC to other fora.
然而,不能因此而放松努力或将IGC的工作转移至其他论坛。
My watch is five seconds slow.
我的表慢了5钞钟。
There are others who affect a very slow time, and are in my opinion much more tunable than the former.
另外有些人爱拉长腔,在我看来,这比前者更有韵味。
He's slow at speech with women yet.
跟女人说话他还有点拙嘴笨舌。
On 5 March the slow convoy SC 122 departed New York harbor.
3月5月,SC122慢速护航运输队离开纽约港。
How slow you read!
你读得真慢!
He is very slow at his work.
他干活很慢。
I'll lash the two oars together across the stern and that will slow him in the night.
我要把两个桨放在船梢交叉着绑在一起,这样在夜里就会叫它走得慢些。
Each man knew that unless he did as much as ever he could, Crass would report him for being slow.
每个工人都知道,要不拼命干克拉斯就会去报告说他手脚慢。
Val watched the slow liquid filling his glass, the essential oil of the old wine glazing the surface.
瓦尔看着酒液缓缓倒入他的酒杯,陈酒的油花在杯中闪耀着。
They seemed to be dancing in a slow and sad cotillion, while behind the hedge on every side were warders armed with guns.
他们似乎在慢悠悠地,悲伤地跳着八人舞,而在每一道篱笆后面都有持枪的狱卒。
The geological survey finds, typically, a slow change of formation and of structure as it progresses.
一般地说,地面地质调查是一面前进,一面寻找地层和构造的缓慢变化。
He had known only the surface of death, now he was tasting its last, slow agonies.
他以前只知道死亡的皮相;现在他尝到了它的最后的、缓慢的痛苦。
He listened to the starter retching and retching, the racing of the engine, and then the slow decline to silence.
他听着汽车的起动器干呕了两声,接着马达发动起来,声音逐渐消失在远处。
He recited the passage deliberately, accurately with slow, impressive emphasis.
他从容地、准确地背诵了一段,背得很慢、有声有色。
With a slow reluctant nod, Aster said, "Clear the bridge. "
埃斯特勉强而迟疑地点了点头说:“撤出舰桥。”
This method is now undergoing a slow revival.
目前这种方法正在慢慢复兴。
At some intersection drivers must come to a completestop; at others they are only required to slow down.
在有些交叉路口,司机必须把车完全停住。而其他位置,他们只需放慢速度就可以了。
The English teacher watered down the course for the slow-learning students.
英语老师简化了慢班的课程内容。
The eutectoid compounds are very slow in forming.
共析物的形成是非常缓慢的。
There are the problems of his work, his slow advance.
还有他要操心的问题,工作啦,加薪太慢啦。
Bob usually walks with a slow gait.
鲍勃平常走路的步子很慢。
The cycloaddition itself is the slow step.
环化作用本身是慢的一步。
The workmen were slow in making a start.
工人们动手很慢。
Soon they became bowed and grey and slow and sullen.
曾几何时,他们就变得弯腰如弓,动作迟缓,终日闷闷不乐了。
He had recovered from a slow start.
他克服了起步慢的毛病。
That worker is slow but thorough.
那个工人做事很慢但很准确。
But business, too, is often a slow-moving gerontocracy, hidebound by a reluctance to let creative individuals make quick decisions.
不过日本商界常常也是一个行动迟缓、处在老人统治下的领域,固守着一种不愿令富有创造力的个人快速作出决断的心态。
So those businesses have been slow to improve, but Buffett predicted the U. S. housing market will begin to recover within the next year.
所以这些公司的业务增长缓慢,但巴菲特预测明年美国的房地产市场将有起色。
All this seems to point to a slow maturing of democracy in Latin America.
这一切似乎指向民主在拉美地区的缓慢成熟。
The economy should slow over the coming quarters, but will not go into a recession given the strength of the employment market.
美国就业市场稳健,故即使预料经济于未来数季将会放缓,但相信不会陷入衰退。
They nearly dont sweat at all. So a heat for them is nothing, but for me it means everything, it means my head will get slow and sleepy.
他们几乎不出汗。因此高温对于他们并没有什么,但对我来说这意味着每件事-我的头脑变慢并昏昏欲睡。
Growth is still likely to slow as the economy settles into a long-term growth rate that might not be all that impressive.
因为经济一贯的长期、淡定、不刻意性,增长看来还是缓慢。
But this one seems to be sort of slow.
但是,这似乎是一个缓慢的排序。
It was a shame, as after a bit of a slow start we got the measure of Chelsea and really believed we could get back on level terms.
很可惜的一场比赛。我们在开局阶段的慢热后已经开始逐渐适应切尔西的打法了,而且我们本有希望追平比分。
The world continued to struggle with a slow recovery from the financial crisis two years earlier.
全世界仍然苦苦挣扎着从两年前的金融危机中缓慢地复苏。
In other words, you may be presenting yourself as an opportunity to unload a bit of slow-moving inventory.
简言之,你可能把自己变成了一个他们清理滞销货的好机会。
The careless, the slow, the unobservant, the lazy fail to see it, or clutch at it when it has gone.
粗心大意、行动迟缓、精神涣散、好吃懒做的人都无法看到机会的到来,在它离去的时候也无法抓住。
There was a slow smiling air about her, and about everything she did.
她有一种庸散含笑的神情,一举一动都带着这种神情。
WHEN you secured the nomination, you said that this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
当你稳获总统提名之时,你说你的当选将是海平面减缓上升,我们地球开始恢复的开始时刻。
The issues on your mind unfold clearly, as if they were in slow motion.
你之心结就像是慢动作似之在你之面前清晰地展开。
But the pace of that appreciation has been very slow so far, with the renminbi rising only 0. 8 percent against the U. S. dollar since then.
但是到目前为止,人民币升值的步伐非常缓慢,自从美国表态以来,人民币对美元仅升值了0.
Public transport is often slow, unreliable and unpleasant.
公共交通经常晚点,难以信赖,并且环境不佳。
That could allow the company to inject a heavy fluid into the broken well that would slow and eventually stop the flow of oil.
这样就可以将密度很高的流体注入破井中从而最终阻止石油流出。
But the company did not handle the transition to next-generation consoles well, being slow to see the potential of Nintendo's Wii.
但是该公司未能处理好向下一代游戏机的过渡,没有及时发现任天堂(Nintendo)Wii游戏机的潜力。
However, the evolution of machines has been slow compared to that of power semiconductor devices and power electronic converters.
但是,与电力电子器件和电力电子变换器相比,电机的发展十分缓慢。
His diet certainly did not slow him down on the way to a pair of world records .
当然,他的饮食结构没有拖他创造世界纪录的后腿。