slow
美 [slo?]
英 [sl??] 
- adj.慢;緩慢的;遲緩的;耗時的
- v.減緩
- adv.緩慢地;慢速地
- 網絡減速
詞形變化
比較級:slower 最高級:slowest 第三人稱單數:slows 現在分詞:slowing 過去式:slowed 反義詞
英漢雙解
速度低not fast
1. | 緩慢的;遲緩的;耗時的;慢的not moving, acting or done quickly; taking a long time; not fast |
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| Progress was slower than expected. 進展比預計的緩慢。 |
| The country is experiencing slow but steady economic growth. 國家經濟正在緩慢但穩步地增長。 |
| Collecting data is a painfully slow process. 收集材料的過程慢得讓人難受。 |
| a slow, lingering death 緩慢而拖延時日的死亡 |
| Oh you're so slow; come on, hurry up! 哎喲,你可真慢;加把勁,快點! |
| The slow movement opens with a cello solo. 慢樂章開頭是一段大提琴獨奏。 |
| She gave a slow smile. 她慢慢地笑了笑。 |
2. | 慢速的;低速的not going or allowing you to go at a fast speed |
| I missed the fast train and had to get the slow one(= the one that stops at all the stations) . 我誤了快車,只得坐慢車。 |
拖延with delay
3. | 遲遲不…;不樂意;慢吞吞的hesitating to do sth or not doing sth immediately |
| She wasn't slow to realize what was going on. 她很快意識到出了什么事。 |
| His poetry was slow in achieving recognition. 他的詩遲遲得不到賞識。 |
| They were very slow paying me. 他們遲遲不付錢給我。 |
不聰明not clever
4. | 遲鈍的;笨的;理解力差的not quick to learn; finding things hard to understand |
| He's the slowest in the class. 他是班里最遲鈍的。 |
不忙碌not busy
5. | 不忙碌的;清淡的;冷清的not very busy; containing little action |
| Sales are slow(= not many goods are being sold) . 銷售不旺。 |
表;鐘watch/clock
6. | [nbn] 慢showing a time earlier than the correct time |
| My watch is five minutes slow(= it shows 1.45 when it is 1.50) . 我的手表慢五分鐘。 |
攝影in photography
7. | (膠片)曝光慢的slow film is not very sensitive to light |
| Could you go a little slower? 你能走慢點嗎? |
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| slow-moving traffic 緩慢行進的車輛 |
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1. | [i][t] (使)放慢速度,減緩,松勁to go or to make sth/sb go at a slower speed or be less active |
| Economic growth has slowed a little. 經濟增長稍有減緩。 |
| The bus slowed to a halt . 公共汽車減速停了下來。 |
| The car slowed down as it approached the junction. 汽車在駛近交叉路口時放慢了速度。 |
| The game slowed up little in the second half. 比賽節奏在下半場幾乎沒有減慢。 |
| You must slow down(= work less hard) or you'll make yourself ill. 你得松松勁,不然會累病的。 |
| The ice on the roads was slowing us down. 公路上有冰,減緩了我們的速度。 |
| We hope to slow the spread of the disease. 我們希望能夠減緩疾病的傳播速度。 |
習慣用語
do a slow burn
慢慢生起氣來to slowly get angry
go slow (on sth)
(對某事)熱情減退to show less enthusiasm for achieving sth
| The government is going slow on tax reforms. 政府對于稅務改革漸漸失去了熱情。 |
英漢解釋
adj. | 2. 遲鈍的,笨的;沒精神的,不活潑的;(表演等)沒趣的 |
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v. | 1. 使慢,開慢,拖延 (down up off) 使呆滯 |
英英解釋
例句
To make cold antihydrogen, the experimenters must slow down the antiprotons to a temperature similar to that of the positrons.
要制作冷的反氫,實驗者必須將反質子減緩到與正子相近的溫度。
Kostya interpreted this as a signal to drive faster, but when he accelerated Ivetta told him to slow down.
克斯特亞把這句話看做是讓他開快點的一個信號,但是當他加速時,艾薇塔卻告訴他慢下來。
Maybe with us doing our share, we might be able to slow down the visits from Fort Riley officers.
或許我們彼此分享經歷的話,我們兩個更應該放慢訪問FortRiley官員的速度。
Instead, marine biologists ply the area, studying the atoll's slow comeback and trying to help it along.
海洋生物學家會巡邏此區,研究環礁的緩慢復育過程,幫助生態回復。
Then it began to act like yeast used in slow-fermenting lagers, settling to the bottom of the tank but not going dormant.
然后它們開始像用于慢性發酵的儲藏啤酒的酵母一樣活動,深入釀造箱底部,卻又不休眠。
In a vehicle with manual transmission, you may downshift into a lower gear as you slow down.
手動檔車輛,應在降低車速的同時換低檔位至適合的位置。
Lead singer Frankie Beverly's natural rhythm seems to be in the slow lane, so Greatest Slow Jams is where he and the group really thrive.
主唱弗蘭基富康的自然節奏似乎是在慢車道,所以果醬是最偉大的慢,他和該集團真正興旺。
The tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.
烏龜一刻不停,雖然爬得很慢,但一直都在朝終點堅持不懈地前進。
AS I sit in a shadowy corner, I observe a slow and gradual elongation of his mouth.
坐在一個暗角落里我觀察到他的嘴慢慢而逐漸地伸長。
Here most of the streets are narrow, and traffic is often very slow.
這里的大多數街道都很狹窄,交通往往十分緩慢。
When you're having a slow day so you slip out for a matinee at the movies, remind yourself how terrific it is to set your own hours.
如果哪天比較清閑,溜到電影院看個白天場,提醒自己:可以自己安排時間,這是多么了不起。
as the slow surfing of the Web on analog phone lines is often dubbed.
通過模擬電話線進行的慢吞吞的網上沖浪。
Know you are split times so you know if you were quick or slow when you took a particular line through a section.
了解自己在計時點的時間,你就了解了自己通過某一部分特定路線時的快慢。
Analysts said the statement may slow the dollar's decline, but would not alter the currency's broad weakness.
分析師表示,G7聲明可能會放緩美元跌勢,但不會改變美元整體頹勢。
When he took the pipe, he left the store with slow unsure steps.
當他在管,他離開了商店緩慢不確定的步驟。
If it does, then it's time to be proactive: Assume people are just as annoyed when your site is slow, and then strive to fix it.
是的話就要做好心理準備了:假設人們正因其速度緩慢而不滿的Web站點就是您的站點,然后努力轉變這種狀況。
Although it was relatively easy to start walking and change direction, it was harder to slow down and stop.
走路或轉向其實相當簡單,但想慢下來或停下腳步,就有點難了。
There was no ill-fitting glove, no dream team, no slow-motion car chase, and no plaintive wail of a dog.
沒有戴不上的手套,沒有夢幻律師隊,沒有慢鏡頭的汽車追捕,也沒有狗的哀號[1]。
Unless the West, including America, is prepared to help out on a large scale, he will be under pressure to go slow.
如果西方包括美國準備大規模幫助時,他將受到壓力而放慢步伐。
This, however, was no reason to slow down efforts or to shift the work carried out by the IGC to other fora.
然而,不能因此而放松努力或將IGC的工作轉移至其他論壇。
My watch is five seconds slow.
我的表慢了5鈔鐘。
There are others who affect a very slow time, and are in my opinion much more tunable than the former.
另外有些人愛拉長腔,在我看來,這比前者更有韻味。
He's slow at speech with women yet.
跟女人說話他還有點拙嘴笨舌。
On 5 March the slow convoy SC 122 departed New York harbor.
3月5月,SC122慢速護航運輸隊離開紐約港。
How slow you read!
你讀得真慢!
He is very slow at his work.
他干活很慢。
I'll lash the two oars together across the stern and that will slow him in the night.
我要把兩個槳放在船梢交叉著綁在一起,這樣在夜里就會叫它走得慢些。
Each man knew that unless he did as much as ever he could, Crass would report him for being slow.
每個工人都知道,要不拼命干克拉斯就會去報告說他手腳慢。
Val watched the slow liquid filling his glass, the essential oil of the old wine glazing the surface.
瓦爾看著酒液緩緩倒入他的酒杯,陳酒的油花在杯中閃耀著。
They seemed to be dancing in a slow and sad cotillion, while behind the hedge on every side were warders armed with guns.
他們似乎在慢悠悠地,悲傷地跳著八人舞,而在每一道籬笆后面都有持槍的獄卒。
The geological survey finds, typically, a slow change of formation and of structure as it progresses.
一般地說,地面地質調查是一面前進,一面尋找地層和構造的緩慢變化。
He had known only the surface of death, now he was tasting its last, slow agonies.
他以前只知道死亡的皮相;現在他嘗到了它的最后的、緩慢的痛苦。
He listened to the starter retching and retching, the racing of the engine, and then the slow decline to silence.
他聽著汽車的起動器干嘔了兩聲,接著馬達發動起來,聲音逐漸消失在遠處。
He recited the passage deliberately, accurately with slow, impressive emphasis.
他從容地、準確地背誦了一段,背得很慢、有聲有色。
With a slow reluctant nod, Aster said, "Clear the bridge. "
埃斯特勉強而遲疑地點了點頭說:“撤出艦橋。”
This method is now undergoing a slow revival.
目前這種方法正在慢慢復興。
At some intersection drivers must come to a completestop; at others they are only required to slow down.
在有些交叉路口,司機必須把車完全停住。而其他位置,他們只需放慢速度就可以了。
The English teacher watered down the course for the slow-learning students.
英語老師簡化了慢班的課程內容。
The eutectoid compounds are very slow in forming.
共析物的形成是非常緩慢的。
There are the problems of his work, his slow advance.
還有他要操心的問題,工作啦,加薪太慢啦。
Bob usually walks with a slow gait.
鮑勃平常走路的步子很慢。
The cycloaddition itself is the slow step.
環化作用本身是慢的一步。
The workmen were slow in making a start.
工人們動手很慢。
Soon they became bowed and grey and slow and sullen.
曾幾何時,他們就變得彎腰如弓,動作遲緩,終日悶悶不樂了。
He had recovered from a slow start.
他克服了起步慢的毛病。
That worker is slow but thorough.
那個工人做事很慢但很準確。
But business, too, is often a slow-moving gerontocracy, hidebound by a reluctance to let creative individuals make quick decisions.
不過日本商界常常也是一個行動遲緩、處在老人統治下的領域,固守著一種不愿令富有創造力的個人快速作出決斷的心態。
So those businesses have been slow to improve, but Buffett predicted the U. S. housing market will begin to recover within the next year.
所以這些公司的業務增長緩慢,但巴菲特預測明年美國的房地產市場將有起色。
All this seems to point to a slow maturing of democracy in Latin America.
這一切似乎指向民主在拉美地區的緩慢成熟。
The economy should slow over the coming quarters, but will not go into a recession given the strength of the employment market.
美國就業市場穩健,故即使預料經濟于未來數季將會放緩,但相信不會陷入衰退。
They nearly dont sweat at all. So a heat for them is nothing, but for me it means everything, it means my head will get slow and sleepy.
他們幾乎不出汗。因此高溫對于他們并沒有什么,但對我來說這意味著每件事-我的頭腦變慢并昏昏欲睡。
Growth is still likely to slow as the economy settles into a long-term growth rate that might not be all that impressive.
因為經濟一貫的長期、淡定、不刻意性,增長看來還是緩慢。
But this one seems to be sort of slow.
但是,這似乎是一個緩慢的排序。
It was a shame, as after a bit of a slow start we got the measure of Chelsea and really believed we could get back on level terms.
很可惜的一場比賽。我們在開局階段的慢熱后已經開始逐漸適應切爾西的打法了,而且我們本有希望追平比分。
The world continued to struggle with a slow recovery from the financial crisis two years earlier.
全世界仍然苦苦掙扎著從兩年前的金融危機中緩慢地復蘇。
In other words, you may be presenting yourself as an opportunity to unload a bit of slow-moving inventory.
簡言之,你可能把自己變成了一個他們清理滯銷貨的好機會。
The careless, the slow, the unobservant, the lazy fail to see it, or clutch at it when it has gone.
粗心大意、行動遲緩、精神渙散、好吃懶做的人都無法看到機會的到來,在它離去的時候也無法抓住。
There was a slow smiling air about her, and about everything she did.
她有一種庸散含笑的神情,一舉一動都帶著這種神情。
WHEN you secured the nomination, you said that this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
當你穩獲總統提名之時,你說你的當選將是海平面減緩上升,我們地球開始恢復的開始時刻。
The issues on your mind unfold clearly, as if they were in slow motion.
你之心結就像是慢動作似之在你之面前清晰地展開。
But the pace of that appreciation has been very slow so far, with the renminbi rising only 0. 8 percent against the U. S. dollar since then.
但是到目前為止,人民幣升值的步伐非常緩慢,自從美國表態以來,人民幣對美元僅升值了0.
Public transport is often slow, unreliable and unpleasant.
公共交通經常晚點,難以信賴,并且環境不佳。
That could allow the company to inject a heavy fluid into the broken well that would slow and eventually stop the flow of oil.
這樣就可以將密度很高的流體注入破井中從而最終阻止石油流出。
But the company did not handle the transition to next-generation consoles well, being slow to see the potential of Nintendo's Wii.
但是該公司未能處理好向下一代游戲機的過渡,沒有及時發現任天堂(Nintendo)Wii游戲機的潛力。
However, the evolution of machines has been slow compared to that of power semiconductor devices and power electronic converters.
但是,與電力電子器件和電力電子變換器相比,電機的發展十分緩慢。
His diet certainly did not slow him down on the way to a pair of world records .
當然,他的飲食結構沒有拖他創造世界紀錄的后腿。