low

英[ləʊ]美[loʊ]

adj.低的，矮小的，楼下的，低洼的，沮丧的，下贱的；

adv.低声地，谦卑地，底下地；

n.低点，低水平，牛的叫声；

vi.（牛）哞哞叫；

复数：lows;

第三人称单数：lows;

过去式：lowed;

过去分词：lowed;

现在分词：lowing;

比较级：lower;

*高级：lowest;

例句

As a general rule, prices follow demands; if there is no demand, prices are low.一般说来, 物价随需求而变化; 没有需求, 物价就会降低。

There was a low protecting wall to knock down the heat blasting from the pit of the furnace.有一堵低矮的护壁挡住从炉膛里喷出的火焰。

When Tom’s companions drank to the Hans en Kelderr, or Jack in the low cellar, he could not help displaying an extraordinary complacence of countenance.当同事们举杯向他祝贺那未出世的孩子时，汤姆不禁露出一种异常得意的神情。

The wintry sun was already low in the sky.一轮冬日已经低垂天幕。

Do you have any low- fat yogurt?你要不要低脂的酸奶？

The hunters laid low seven pheasants.猎人们打死了七只野鸡。

The landscape is made up of low, rolling hills.此地的地貌为低矮起伏的丘陵。

Her voice was low and shaky with emotion.她的声音低沉，因激动而有些颤抖。

A man of high birth may be of low worth and vice versa.出身高贵的人可能价值低,出身微贱的人可能价值高。

Is it the low temperature that turns the water to ice?是低温使水变成冰的吗?

英语六级真题

While bullying is parents' greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents.

Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.

These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale ( ' , 页岩) oil, point to a low for long scenario.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

The prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.

The dynamic adjustment to low oil prices may, however, be different this time around.

The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.

The current low fossil fuel price environment will thus certainly delay the energy transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources.

The North American shale gas boom has resulted in record low prices there.

Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuel prices remain low for long.

Policymakers should not allow low energy prices to derail the clean energy transition.

Oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer.

Notwithstanding important recent progress in developing renewable fuel sources, low fossil fuel prices could discourage further innovation in, and adoption of, cleaner energy technologies.

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.

Most affluent parents enroll their children in preschool or day care, while low-income parents are more likely to depend on family members.

If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.

If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.

Higher fossil fuel prices prove to be conducive to innovation and application of cleaner technologyIf fossil fuel prices remain low for a long time, it may lead to higher emissions of greenhouse gases.

Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay low for long.

Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.

But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.

A commonly held view in the oil industry is that the best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices.

Research now says adding fiber to the teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.

And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

The overwhelming majority of employees attribute their stress mainly to low pay and an excessive workload.

The high-risk group and low-risk group are obvious.

The group that scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors was most likely to show symptoms of depression; in all, nearly 15% of this group reported being depressed, compared with just 4% of the low-risk group.

What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.

They underestimate themselves when selecting a university, said Dave Jarrat, a marketing executive for Inside Track, a for-profit organization that specializes in coaching low-income students and supporting colleges in order to help students thrive.

The reality of it is that a lot of low-income kids could be going to elite universities on a full ride scholarship and don't even realize it.

The graduation rate of first-generation students at Nijay's university was incredibly low.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).

One of the ways in which all agents seem to make decisions is that they assign a lower weighting to outcomes that are going to be further away in the future, he says.

Instead of skipping out on higher education altogether, they chose community colleges or state schools with low bars for admittance.

Black people's socioeconomic status in America remains low.

According to a marketing executive, many students from low-income families don't know they could have a chance of going to an elite university.

A low wage for elementary school teachers, however, doesn't mean elementary education isn't important.

And they were more likely to have a criminal record and to be raising a child as a single parent on a very low income.

And we try to keep our expenses as low as we can.

But thinking about or remembering descriptions in terms of their social meaning activated the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex—part of the brain's social network—even as traditional memory regions registered low levels of activity.

Clothes and other items that need to be tried on such as diamond rings and gold necklaces are generally not suited to virtual retailing, and, of course, items with a low value- to-weight ratio.

fish have a refuge in the streams and can expand into the lagoons when the lake is low and the lagoons are separate, Harper said All the lagoons join when the lake is high and fish must retreat to their stream refuges or die.

Gathering your resources to "try hard" requires burning energy in order to overcome your currently low arousal level.

Maybe you see low customer participation at first, or conversely, so much success that the cost of recycling becomes too high.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child's low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

Steel's fragility at low temperatures first became a major concern during the Second World War.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal c

These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale oil, point to a "low for long" scenario.

They're primarily designed for Low Earth Orbit(LEO) an easily accessible region of space from around 200 to 800 miles above Earth, where human-tended missions like the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station(ISS) hang out.

Three-quarters of the world's flamingos fly over from other salt lakes in the Rift Valley and nest on salt-crystal islands that appear when the water is at a specific level一too high and the birds can't build their nests, too low and predators can move bri

Whereas some of the low-self-control study members are more likely to be single parents with a very low income and the parent is in poor health and likely to be a heavy substance abuser.

Yet, she noted, many young people are especially unwilling to take risks at school—afraid that one low test score or poor grade could cost them a spot at a selective university.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADJ-GRADED

（高度）低的，矮的

Something that is low measures only a short distance from the bottom to the top, or from the ground to the top.

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ADJ-GRADED

（位置）低的，近地面的，近底部的

If something is low, it is close to the ground, to sea level, or to the bottom of something.

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ADJ-GRADED

水位低的；水浅的

When a river is low, it contains less water than usual.

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ADJ-GRADED

（数量）少的，接近等级下限的

You can use low to indicate that something is small in amount or that it is at the bottom of a particular scale. You can use phrases such as in the low 80s to indicate that a number or level is less than 85 but not as little as 80.

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ADJ-GRADED

（地位）低微的，低下的

Low is used to describe people who are not considered to be very important because they are near the bottom of a particular scale or system.

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N-COUNT

低点；*低点

If something reaches a low of a particular amount or degree, that is the smallest it has ever been.

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ADJ-GRADED

（汽车或自行车的排挡）低速的，低挡的

If you drive or ride a bicycle in a low gear, you use a gear, usually first or second, which gives you the most control over your car or bicycle when travelling slowly.

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ADJ-GRADED

（质量或标准）低的，差的

If the quality or standard of something is low, it is very poor.

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ADJ-GRADED

成分少的；含量低的

If a food or other substance is low in a particular ingredient, it contains only a small amount of that ingredient.

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ADJ-GRADED

落后的；后进的

If you describe someone such as a student or a worker as a low achiever, you mean that they are not very good at their work, and do not achieve or produce as much as others.

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ADJ-GRADED

（评论）贬低的，轻蔑的

If you have a low opinion of someone or something, you disapprove of them or dislike them.

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ADJ-GRADED

消沉的；消极的

You can use low to describe negative feelings and attitudes.

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ADJ-GRADED

（声音或嗓音）低沉的

If a sound or noise is low, it is deep.

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ADJ-GRADED

悄声的；轻声的

If someone's voice is low, it is quiet or soft.

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ADJ-GRADED

（光线）暗淡的，微弱的

A light that is low is not bright or strong.

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ADJ-GRADED

（收音机、烤炉、灯光等调节至）低挡的，低强度的

If a radio, oven, or light is on low, it has been adjusted so that only a small amount of sound, heat, or light is produced.

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ADJ-GRADED

不足的；短缺的；剩余不多的

If you are low on something or if a supply of it is low, there is not much of it left.

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ADJ-GRADED

沮丧的；不开心的

If you are low, you are depressed.

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PHRASE

使衰弱；使病倒

If a disease or illness lays you low, it makes you weak or ill.

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PHRASE

不露面；不引起注意；保持低调

If you are lying low, you are hiding or not drawing attention to yourself.

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英汉词典释义

adj.

低的, 矮的, 离地面近的

低下的, 低等的

粗劣的, 低俗的

意志消沉的, 情绪低落的, 虚弱的, 沮丧的, 无精打采的

（数量等）减少的，缩减的；不足的

低声的；小声的；轻声的

低于通常（或期望）标准的

不好的；差的

不诚实的；不正直的

暗淡的；微弱的

低速挡的

低于通常（或平均）数量（或水平、价值）的

在底部的；近底部的

领口开得低的

adv.

低, 向下; 低微地

低声地

低气压区

在靠近…底部的位置；向…底部

低于通常（或期望）的水平

低声地；小声地

n.

低点, 低水平

(机器运转)低排挡

（一生或事业中的）艰难时期，低谷

vi.

（牛）哞哞叫

英英词典释义

Noun

1. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation;

2. a low level or position or degree;

3. the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving

Verb

1. make a low noise, characteristic of bovines

Adjective

1. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount;

2. literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension;

3. very low in volume;

4. unrefined in character;

5. used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency

6. of the most contemptible kind;

7. low or inferior in station or quality;

8. no longer sufficient;

9. subdued or brought low in condition or status;

10. low in spirits;

11. being the gear producing the lowest drive speed;

Adverb

1. in a low position; near the ground;

行业词典

体育： 低；

土木工程： 少筋梁, low-reinforced beam；低温水, low-temperature hot water；低热水泥, low-heat Portland cement；

大气科学： 低［气］压,［pressure］, depression 水平气压场上气压比四周低的区域。；低空急流, low-level jet stream 对流层低层(850hPa附近)出现的急流。；低空风切变, low-level wind shear 离地约600m高度以下风的水平或垂直切变现象。；

机械： 低惯量电机, low-inertia motor 转子转动惯量较一般电机小的控制电机。；低温试验, low-temperature test 把试样暴露在低温环境中进行的试验，通常用温度和试验持续时间表示严酷等级。；

物理学： 低温等离［子］体, low-temperature plasma；低能电子衍射, low-energy electron diffraction, LEED；低耗［共振］腔, low-loss resonator；低能核反应, low-energy nuclear reaction；微光成象,low-light-level imaging；

电力： 低周疲劳强度, low-cycle endurance limit, low- cycle fatigue strength；低压厂用配电盘,low-voltage station service distribu- tion board；低压厂用电接线, low-voltage station system scheme；低压母线, low-tension bus；低压电器, low-voltage apparatus；低压供电,low-voltage power supply；低压熔断器,l；

金融： 日高价；日低价；