low

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。

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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。

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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。

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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

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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

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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