lower

vt. 减弱，减少；放下，降下；贬低

vi. 降低；减弱；跌落

adj. 下游的；下级的；下等的

n. (Lower)人名；(英、意)洛厄

adj.

下方的；在底部的；较低级的；

v.

降低；减少；缩小；

变形

过去式：lowered过去分词：lowered现在分词：lowering第三人称单数：lowers

双语释义

[A]较低的,低等的 less high in position, rank, or order

vt. & vi. (使)降低;(使)跌落 let or bring down; (cause to) be down; make less high

vt. 削弱;削减weaken

英英释义

lower[ 'ləuə ]

n.the lower of two berths

同义词：lower berth

v.

move something or somebody to a lower position

同义词：take downlet downget downbring down

set lower

"lower a rating"; "lower expectations"

同义词：lour

cause to drop or sink

同义词：depress

make lower or quieter

同义词：turn downlour

look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

同义词：frownglowerlour

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

lower one's head低下头

lower oneself降低身份

lower the price减价

lower one's voice放低声音

～+副词

lower appreciably明显降低

lower charmingly极好地降低

lower coyly害羞地低下(头)

lower economically节约地减少

lower slightly略微放低

lower tremulously微微地下降

lower away放下

～+介词

lower at对…表示不满

lower by因…而降低

lower from...to从…降低到…

lower in在…上跌落

lower into water放在水中

lower on〔upon〕对…表示不满

lower to降低到…地步

词组短语

lower oneself失身份；自甘堕落

lower level下水平，低电平

lower price低价；降价

lower limb[医]下肢；腿

lower end下端

lower limit下限

lower extremity下肢

lower bound下界

lower back下背

lower house下议院；众议院

lower down降低

lower jaw下颌；下颚

lower leg小腿；（侧泳）靠下面的腿；胫

lower abdomen小腹；下腹部

lower layer底层

lower surface下表面；底面

lower class下层阶级；下层社会

lower lip下唇；下唇板

lower reach下游河段

lower case小写字母盘

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

The publisher paid his hacks low.
出版商付给他雇佣的文人很低的费用。

He because of bashful but low head.
他因羞愧而低下了头。

The lower level is subordinate to the higher level.
下级服从上级。

He belongs to the lower middle class.
他来自中产阶级下层。

Tramps are in a low stratum of society.
流浪汉生活在社会的下层。

用作动词(v.)

Don't lower yourself by asking him for help.
不要向他求助以免降低身分。

The meat will scorch if you don't lower the gas.
如果你不把煤气调小一点，肉就要焦了。

Speak to her? I'd never lower myself.
跟她说话？我可不自贬人格。

Can you lower those bright lights a little?
你能把那些灯的亮度减弱一点吗?

Examinations also lower the standards of teaching.
考试也使教学水平降低。

权威例句

lower (v.1)

c. 1600, "to descend, sink," from lower (adj.), from Middle English lahghere (c. 1200), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "to let down, to cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the sense "to cause to descend" the simple verb low (Middle English lahghenn, c. 1200) was in use into the 18c.

lower (v.2)

"to look dark and threatening," also lour, Middle English louren, luren "to frown" (early 13c.), "to lurk" (mid-15c.), from Old English *luran or from its cognates, Middle Low German luren, Middle Dutch loeren "lie in wait." Form perhaps assimilated to lower (1). Related: Lowered; lowering.

lower (adj.)

c. 1200, lahre, comparative of lah (see low (adj.)).

1. He pushed out his lower lip.

他努出他的下嘴唇。

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2. This case comes under the jurisdiction of a lower court.

这个案件属于低一级法院的管辖范围。

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3. The courses have been geared down to the lower ability of students in there special classes.

课程降低了要求，以适应这些特殊班能力较低的学生。

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4. It was in the lower field next day,poisoning.

次日在较低的田里放毒。

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5. What do you do to lower your risk of stroke?

你要做些什么来降低你患中风的风险呢？

6. So why would you want to lower your cholesterol?

那么为什么你想降低你的胆固醇呢？

7. So they may have to accept lower margins instead.

因此他们有可能要反而接受利润的减少。

8. In this and all of our efforts, we intend to work smarter, not lower our standards or quality of service.

通过我们这些努力，我们想要更聪明地开展工作，而并不降低我们的标准或服务的质量。

9. Others have it off by default; if enabled, it exhibits lower performance on all threads in the process or possibly all processes.

其他操作系统在默认情况下关闭这个特性；如果启用它，它会降低进程中的所有线程或所有进程的性能）。

10. They lower the standards of teaching， for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms.

考试促使降低教学标准，因为它剥夺了老师的一切自由。

11. Please lower your brows and draw them together.

请放低你的眉毛，将他们拧在一起。

12. We want to lower it and certainly not add to it.

我们要把它的数量尽可能降低，肯定也不能再增加了。

13. He rates her lower not only on attractiveness, but also on warmth and intelligence.

不仅是其吸引力，对她的热情程度和智力的评价都会降低。

14. To help lower costs, IBM offers flexible virtualization license costs, where you pay only for the number of virtual resources that you have deployed.

为了帮助降低成本，IBM提供灵活的虚拟化许可证费用机制，您只需根据已经部署的虚拟资源数量付费。

15. If you stand on your tip toes and lower your heels up and down again it will stretch out the tendons making it easier to walk without heels, ” he said.

他说：“如果你用脚尖站立，接着上下反复降低你的脚后跟，这会让跟腱得到伸展，当你不穿高跟鞋的时候走起路来也更加容易。”

16. If this is the maximum resolution of your screen or if your resolution is lower than this, you will need to scroll to see some areas of the demo.

如果这是您屏幕的最大分辨率，或者如果您的比这还低，那么您需要滚动屏幕来查看演示的一些区域。

17. Officials of several unions vow to strip this provision because it would create an underclass of workers more prone to exploitation and lower wages.

一些协会的官员发誓要破除这一规定，因为它将创造一个更倾向于剥削和低工资的底层工人阶级。

18. Another benefit could be lower prices for petroleum, food and other basic goods due to a decline in demand.

另一项利益可能是由于需求减少，导致石油、粮食以及其他基本商品的价格降低。

19. I tend to lower my body exactly to the ground.

我倾向于完全降低我的身体，趴在地上。

20. It is now up to the commercial banks to pass that on to their customers in the form of lower loan and mortgage rates but not all are enthusiastically willing to do that.

现在需要商业银行通过降低贷款和房贷利率来把降息的效应传导到它们的客户，但是并非所有商业银行都诚心愿意那样做。

21. They should also agree on the broad balance between lower spending and higher taxes to achieve this.

为了达到这个目标，他们应该同意在降低支出和提高税收上达成广泛的平衡。

22. When we have to do custom software development, we usually outsource it to lower our production and delivery costs.

当必须自定义软件开发时，我们通常外购以降低我们的生产和交付的成本。

23. Weight loss can lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, but if you want to lose weight, you have to diet as well as exercise.

降低体重可以降低血压和胆固醇水平，但是如果你想降低体重，你必须在运动的同时节食。

24. Weight loss can lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, but if you want to lose weight, you have to diet as well as exercise.

降低体重可以降低血压和胆固醇水平，但是如果你想降低体重，你必须在运动的同时节食。

25. He is always exhorting us to work harder for a lower salary.

((讽刺))他总是劝我们为了再低的薪水也得更卖力地工作。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

26. In text, there is an implied order from the upper left to the lower right.

在文本中，存在一个隐含的从左上角到右下角的次序。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

27. In this example, if a user enters a value lower than allowable, the program could replace the entered value with the lowest allowable value and display the cluebox that modelessly explains the reason for the substitution.

在本例中，如果用户的输入低于允许值，程序会用允许的最小值代替输入值并用一个暗示框非模态地解释替换的原因。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

28. Anything we can do to lower the heights they must scale will make a big difference, and this step will tame some of the most perilous peaks.

我们所做的任何努力降低他们必须攀登的山峰的高度，都会带来很大益处，而这一步会制服一些最危险的巅峰。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

29. To run the program, you type a command line of either:java RandomBounds lower

为运行这个程序，只需在命令行键入下述命令即可：java RandomBounds lower

-- 来源 -- science - 汉英

30. Note that the terminating controls are correctly placed outside the tabbed pane, in the lower right.

我们还可以看到，终止控件的位置也很正确——它在标签窗格外面，即整个对话框的右下角。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

31. 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。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

32. The axis of symmetry runs from lower left to upper right. Sovereign applications typically won’t exhibit such symmetry at the top level (they achieve balance through a well-designed grid), but elements within a well-designed sovereign interface will almost certainly exhibit use of symmetry to some degree (see Figure 14-5).

独占姿态应用不会在最高层使用对称（它们一般通过良好设计的网格获得平衡），但在一个设计优秀的独占式界面中，各元素在某种程度上也会使用对称（如图14-5所示）。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

33. Edge cases should never be the focus of the design effort. Designers can’t ignore edge case functions and situations, but the interaction needed for them is of much lower priority and is usually buried deep in the interface.

边缘情形永远也不应该成为设计工作的重点，设计者不能忽视边缘情形和边缘功能，但这些情形和功能所需的交互应该在设计工作中只具有很低的优先级，通常要埋藏在界面的底层。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

34. These steps are bounded—the value won’t go above the upper limit set by the program or below the lower limit.

每一步都是有界的，数值不会超过程序设置的最上限，也不会低于程序设定的最下限。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓