lower
lower 英 [ˈləʊə(r)] 美 [ˈloʊə(r)]
v. 放低；降低 adj. 更低的，下方的
进行时:lowering 过去式:lowered 过去分词:lowered 第三人称单数:lowers 名词复数:lowers
- To lower is to move something downward. When you go to sleep at night, you lower your head onto your pillow (unless you are a horse; in that case, you don't lower anything and sleep standing up).
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- v. 放低；降低
- adj. 更低的，下方的
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1. the lower deck of a ship
船的下甲板
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2. His lower lip trembled.
他的下唇在颤抖。
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3. the mountain's lower slopes
山麓斜坡
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4. the lower reaches of the Nile
尼罗河的下游
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5. He had to lower his head to get through the door.
他得低头才能过这道门。
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6. She lowered her newspaper and looked around.
她放低报纸往四下看了看。
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7. They lowered him down the cliff on a rope.
他们用绳索把他放下悬崖。
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8. He lowered his voice to a whisper.
他压低了声音悄悄地说。
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9. This drug is used to lower blood pressure.
这种药用于降血压。
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10. Her voice lowered as she spoke.
她一边说一边压低了嗓音。
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11. I wouldn't lower myself by working for him.
我不会贬低自己的身分去为他工作。
- lower (adj.) Middle English lawar, lower, lougher, earlier lahre (c. 1200), comparative of lah "low" (see low (adj.)). As an adverb from 1540s. Lower-class is from 1772.
- lower (v.1) c. 1600, "descend, sink, grow less or lower" (intransitive), from lower (adj.), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "let down, cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the transitive sense "to cause to descend" the older verb was low (Middle English lahghenn, c. 1200), which continued in use into the 18c.
- lower (v.2) "to look dark and menacing," also lour, from Middle English louren, luren "to frown, scowl" (early 13c.), "to lurk" (mid-15c.), from Old English *luran or from its cognates, Middle Low German luren, Middle Dutch loeren "lie in wait." The form perhaps has been assimilated to lower (v.1). Related: Lowered; lowering.
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