| 单词 | slow |
| 释义 | slow I. 1. a. < a slow student > < a slow mind > < offers slow or retarded boys an adjusted program of education — advt > < the slow learner, properly defined, is neither mentally nor emotionally retarded — Agnes Bass > b. < a slow imagination > 2. a. < they had been far too slow in giving the colonies their independence — Hugh Gaitskell > < an unimaginative man, slow of comprehension — Times Literary Supplement > < many industries … have been slow to develop the full value of research — Defense Against Recession > b. < slow to speak ill of a person — F.E.Ross > < a slow theater audience > 3. a. < a slow stream > < a slow train > < the robin has been mentioned as a slow migrant — F.C.Lincoln > b. < a slow advance > < slow marching > < slow music > < a slow pace > < slow progress > < a slow pulse > < a slow tempo > < a slow walk > c. < a slow disease > d. (1) < a slow fire > (2) 4. < a slow convalescence > < a slow growth > < a slow process > 5. a. < a slow track is one in which the drying-out process has progressed to the stage where the footing is soft — Dan Parker > < her feet would sop in and out of the slow mire — Elizabeth M. Roberts > < a slow putting green > b. of a wicket c. < a slow filter > < a slow influence > < a slow poison > d. e. 6. a. < a slow clock > < a slow meter > < slow scales > < a slow taximeter > b. < standard time is an hour slower than daylight-saving time > c. < local time (6 hrs. 36 min. 46.67 secs. slow on Greenwich mean time) — G.B. & Charlotte L. Dyer > < Washington is several hours slow on London > 7. a. < somebody who's … so gay and daring that she'll think I'm slow — Sinclair Lewis > < things were slow around Times Square — Herbert Mitgang > b. < a slow town > c. < business here is a little slow in summer — W.L.Gresham > < September is always a slow month — Mary Jane Rolfs > < diamonds were particularly slow — Minerals Yrbk. > < slow sales > 8. < a slow taper > < a slow spiral > < party climbed the comparatively slow ascent — Frank Debenham > Synonyms: < a slow fuse > < a slow walker > sometimes suggesting a more or less discreditable cause < a slow careless worker > < slow wits > < slow in getting results > or extreme care < slow craftsmanship, careful and particular > or a natural tempo < slow growth > < a slow convalescence > or a falling behind because of defect or difficulty < a slow watch > < a slow train, held up by a storm > dilatory implies slowness resulting from inertia, procrastination, or indifference < though dilatory in undertaking business, he was quick in its execution — Jane Austen > < the trial must not be protracted in duration by anything that is obstructive or dilatory — R.H.Jackson > laggard, more censorious than dilatory, implies failure to do things on time or to observe a demand promptly, implying loitering or a wasting of time < in its coverage of spot news events, radio has been especially laggard — R.H.Rovere > < a pupil laggard in getting assignments completed > < her body slender and motionless for a moment as though waiting for some laggard part to catch up — William Faulkner > deliberate suggests absence of hurry or agitation, or a slowness that is the result of care or calculation < swung his axe steadily, with the deliberate measured strokes of a skilled woodsman — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > < proceeding in the most deliberate and orderly manner — T.S.Eliot > < had been hurrying everyone since the first streak of light, suddenly became deliberate — Willa Cather > leisurely also implies lack of hurry but suggests rather no pressure of time < moving at a casual, almost leisurely pace — Time > < the mild wind and the blue skies with the leisurely clouds tenting among them — J.H.Wheelwright > II. < how slow time goes — Shakespeare > < I am going slow until I am really on my feet again — H.J.Laski > < I would go pretty slow on that — F.D.Roosevelt > < the engine is idling a trifle slow — Walt Waron > III. transitive verb < investors were slowing the market — Time > < the dirt track slowed his pace — Current Biography > — often used with up or down < a sudden storm will … only temporarily slow down the movement of a freight train — J.N.Efferson > < reader is slowed up by a stream of long words — Milton Hall > intransitive verb < the river … slows on the flat bottom — Alexander Marshack > < the production of such vehicles slowed a bit — A.F.Harlow > — often used with up or down < go all day at high speed, begin to slow up in the evening — R.S.Rubinow > < his doctor told him to slow down — New York Times > Synonyms: see delay IV. |
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