lower是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to move something into a low position -- 降低，使下降

  • They lowered the coffin into the grave. 他们把棺材放入了墓穴。

  • Heavily pregnant by now, she lowered herself carefully into the chair. 因为现在重孕在身，她小心翼翼地在椅子上坐下。

  • He lowered his eyes (= looked down) in embarrassment when he saw me. 他看到我后尴尬地垂下了双眼。

• 1 to reduce something -- 减少，降低

  • Interest rates have been lowered again. 利率又降了。

  • Boil for five minutes, then lower the heat and simmer for half an hour. 煮上5分钟，然后调到小火再炖半小时。

  • Please lower your voice (= speak more quietly). 请说话小声点儿。

  • a lowering of standards 标准的降低

  • humorous Dale lowered the tone of the evening (= made it less socially acceptable) by telling a dirty joke. 戴尔讲了一个黄色笑话，破坏了晚会的气氛。

• 2 to behave in a way that makes people lose respect for you -- 降低身份

  • [ + to infinitive ] I wouldn't lower myself to respond to his insults if I were you. 我要是你就不会贬低自己的身份去理睬他的辱骂。

• 3 positioned below one or more similar things, or of the bottom part of something -- 下面的；底部的，底层的

  • the lower deck of a ship 轮船的下层甲板

  • Her lower lip trembled as if she were about to cry. 她的下嘴唇颤抖着，好像要哭的样子。

  • I've got a pain in my lower (= the bottom part of my) back. 我后腰有点痛。