| 单词 | brake |
| 释义 | brake (once / 713 pages) 1nv 2n 3n To brake is to stop. The noun brake is the pedal in the car that stops the vehicle when pressed. When you want to brake, step on the brake)! In Middle English breken meant things that stopped others, such as a bridle for a horse. If your bicycle screeches at the bottom of every hill, maybe you should have the brakes checked. French Poet Paul Valery saw a brake as a stopping agent for more than just a vehicle: “Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.” WORD FAMILYbrake: braked, brakes, braking, braky USAGE EXAMPLESThat reality fueled several successful efforts in 2016 to put the brakes on government red tape. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Ground was broken in 1972, but a fiscal crisis in the city slammed the brakes on the project again. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) And a top national security official who values dialogue over diatribes is what we need to put the brakes on Trump’s most frightening counterterrorism proposals. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle Hypo|Hyper brake system, brakes a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle coaster brakea brake on a bicycle that engages with reverse pressure on the pedals emergency, emergency brake, hand brake, parking brakea brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage power brakea brake on an automobile that magnifies a small force applied to the brake pedal into a proportionately larger force applied to slow or stop the vehicle airbrakea vehicular brake that operates by compressed air; especially for heavy vehicles hydraulic brake, hydraulic brakesbrake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder; brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes constraint, restraint a device that retards something's motion 2n anything that slows or hinders a process she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage new legislation will put the brakes on spending Hyper constraint, restraint a device that retards something's motion 3v stop travelling by applying a brake We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road Hyper halt, stop come to a halt, stop moving 4v cause to stop by applying the brakes 2brake the car before you go into a curve Hypo|Hyper skid apply a brake or skid to stop cause to stop n an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant 3Hyper brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket a dense growth of bushes 1n any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants Hyper fern any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores 2n large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan Syn|Hyper Pteridium aquilinum, bracken, pasture brake fern any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores |
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