单词盒子

low

L 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ləʊ]
  • 美式音标 [loʊ]
  • 国际音标 [ləu]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj. 低的，浅的；卑贱的；粗俗的；消沉的
  • adv. 低声地；谦卑地，低下地
  • n. 低；低价；低点；牛叫声
  • vi. 牛叫
  • n. (Low)人名；(英、德)洛

词源解说

  • 直接源自古英语的lah；最初源自古挪威语的lagr，意为低的。

同根派生

  • adj性质的同根词
    lowly：卑贱的；地位低的；谦逊的。
  • adv性质的同根词
    lowly：谦逊地；位置低下地；低声地。
  • n性质的同根词
    lowliness：卑微；下贱。
    lowness：低下；卑贱；微弱。

用法辨析

    adj. (形容词)

  • low的基本意思是“低的,矮的”,可指有形物的高低,也可指在重要性或质量上低于或劣于其他物体。还可作“不足的,低落的,不好的,体质弱的”解。
  • low在句中可作定语或表语。

    • adv. (副词)

  • low用作副词时,基本意思是“不高地”,也可指“低声地”“低价地”,须置于动词之后。

    • n. (名词)

  • low作“低点,低水平,低气压”解,是可数名词。
  • low作“(机器运转)低速挡”解,是不可数名词。

英汉例句

    用作形容词 (adj.)

    用作定语: ～+ n.

  • The low areas were inundated by floods.
    低洼地区被洪水淹没了。

    • 用作表语: S+be+～

  • The surrounding land is low and marshy.
    周围的地低洼而多沼泽。

    • S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

  • He is low in pocket.
    他袋中缺钱。

    • 用作宾语补足语: S+V+O+～

  • Keep your voices low.
    请大家说话声音低些。

    • 用作副词 (adv.)

    用作状语

  • This song is pitched too low for her voice.
    对她的嗓子来说,这首歌的音定得太低了。

    • 用作名词 (n.)

  • Several industrial shares reached new lows yesterday.
    有几种工业股票昨天跌到最低点。

词组短语

    用作形容词 (adj.)

    ～+名词

  • low birth 出身低贱的
  • low cloud 低云
  • low grade 低分;低级的;低级别;低等级
  • low land 洼地
  • low manner 粗俗的举止

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • (NOT HIGH) not measuring much from the base to the top
  • (LEVEL) below the usual level
  • (NOT IMPORTANT) not considered important because of being at or near the bottom of a range of things, especially jobs or social positions
  • (NOT HONEST) not honest or fair
  • (SOUND) (of a sound or voice) near or at the bottom of the range of sounds
  • (SAD) unhappy
  • (NOT HIGH) close to the ground or the bottom of something
  • (LEVEL) at or to a low level
  • to make the deep, long sound of a cow
  • a bad time in someone's life

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • Something that is low measures only a short distance from the bottom to the top, or from the ground to the top.
  • If something is low, it is close to the ground, to sea level, or to the bottom of something.
  • When a river is low, it contains less water than usual.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • If something reaches a low of a particular amount or degree, that is the smallest it has ever been.
  • If the quality or standard of something is low, it is very poor.
  • If a food or other substance is low in a particular ingredient, it contains only a small amount of that ingredient.
  • Low is also a combining form.
  • If you have a low opinion of someone or something, you disapprove of them or dislike them.
  • You can use low to describe negative feelings and attitudes.
  • If a sound or noise is low, it is deep.
  • If someone's voice is low, it is quiet or soft.
  • A light that is low is not bright or strong.
  • 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.
  • If you are low on something or if a supply of it is low, there is not much of it left.
  • If you are low, you are depressed.
  • the sound uttered by cattle moo
  • &rarrsee also lower
  • to look high and low&rarrsee high
  • low profile&rarrsee profile
  • to be running low&rarrsee run

专业释义

    医药科学

  • 低

    The patients to be diagnosed and treated were very low (9.41%).
    患者的诊治率很低(9.41%)。

    化学

  • 低的

    But low notched impact strength of pure PBT limits its wider uses.
    但纯PBT缺口冲击强度低的缺点,限制了其应用范围的进一步扩大。

    生物学

  • 低等的；构造较简单的
  • 低

    • 体育

  • 低球的；(投出的球)低于出球手膝部的
  • (一击)打在对手腰带以下的
  • 小牌；最小的王牌
  • 价值较小的，小牌张的

    • 语言学

  • (元音)低的；低舌位的

    • 艺术学

  • 低调的；低音的

    • 计算机科学技术

  • 低

    • 机械工程

  • 低频