['ləʊə(r)]['loʊər]
  • adj. 低的;下级的;下层的
  • v. 降低;减弱;跌落
  • 记忆方法

    词源记忆法
    来自low的比较级。
      verb(动词)
      1. 降低,使下降
      2. 减少,降低
      3. 使下降,降低
      4. 降低身份
      adjective(形容词)
      1. 下面的;底部的,底层的

    双解例句

    verb(动词)
    1. 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。

    2. 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。

    3. 使下降,降低

      a lowering of standards

      标准的降低

      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。

    4. 降低身份

      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。

    adjective(形容词)
    1. 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。

    小知识

    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).

    After cleaning your house's gutters, you'll climb down, lower the ladder, and put it away. After you've raised your hand in class and been called on, you will lower your hand again. Another way to lower something is to decrease the volume: “Will you please lower the sound on the TV? It's way too loud!” A less common meaning of lower is to scowl or glower, or to look stormy and dark.

    实用短语

    1. lower saxony

      下萨克森,下萨克森州,下萨克森邦,萨克森州

    2. lower house

      下议院,众议院,下院

    3. lower limit

      下限尺寸,最小尺寸,下限值

    4. lower albert road

      下亚厘毕道

    5. lower manhattan

      曼哈顿下城,下曼哈顿,曼哈顿下城区,下曼哈顿区

    6. lower mainland

      低陆平原,低陆平原地区,低陆平原区,陆地区

    7. lower austria

      下奥地利州,下奥地利,奥地利,奥天时

    8. lower bound

    9. lower normandy

      下诺曼底,巴斯诺曼底

    常用短语

    1. lower oneself

      失身份;自甘堕落,source:21世纪

    2. lower level

      下水平,低电平

    3. lower price

      低价;降价

    4. lower limb

      [医]下肢;腿

    5. lower end

      下端

    6. lower limit

      下限

    7. lower extremity

      下肢

    8. lower bound

      下界

    9. lower back

      下背

    10. lower house

      下议院;众议院

    11. lower down

      降低

    12. lower jaw

      下颌;下颚

    13. lower leg

      小腿;(侧泳)靠下面的腿;胫

    14. lower abdomen

      小腹;下腹部

    15. lower layer

      底层

    16. lower surface

      下表面;底面

    17. lower class

      下层阶级;下层社会

    18. lower lip

      下唇;下唇板

    19. lower reach

      下游河段

    20. lower case

      小写字母盘

    单词用法

    词语辨析
    lower classes,hard up,poor
    这三个词(组)都用于描写一些人,这些人不能获得足够的钱物以保证像样的生活水平。其区别是:
    poor是其中最广义的词,可指长期或临时的物质或精神的匮乏;
    hard up是poor的口头用语,常指短期物质的匮乏,例如发工资前借钱买午餐或庄稼歉收时的农民,都可用hard up;
    lower classes习惯上用于指在任何社会中社会地位和经济地位最低的一些人,那些所谓
    lower classes的人通常是穷的,然而如今该词常用作带贬义的势利语,指那些胸无大志,缺少教养的人,这些人经济上也许贫也许富。
    例如:If prices continue to advance,poor people will find it hard to live.如果物价继续上涨,穷人的日子就更不好过了。
    I am hard up for money this month.我这个月手头拮据。
    He is a member of lower classes.他是下层社会的一员。

    lower,frown,gloom,glower,scowl
    这组词都可表示“现出不高兴的脸色”。它们的区别是:
    frown通常指皱眉头表示非难、不满、愤怒或轻蔑;
    scowl指紧绷着脸表示不高兴、伤心或不满;
    glower指瞪着眼睛怒视;
    lower既指愁眉不展,也可指天气阴霾;
    gloom强调比lower更现愁容或更加阴郁。
    单词解说
    lower:降低,更低的来自low的比较级。lower:天空变昏暗,变阴沉来自lour的拼写变体。
    重要短语
    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

    反义词

    heighten  /  upper

    同根词

    词根:lower

    adj.

    lowering使低劣的;昏暗的;减少体力的

    lowermost最低的;最底下的