decelerate

英 [ˌdiːˈseləreɪt]

美 [ˌdiːˈseləreɪt]

v.  (使)减速行驶; 降低运行速度; (使)减缓，变慢

现在分词：decelerating　过去分词：decelerated　复数：decelerates　过去式：decelerated　第三人称单数：decelerates　

TEM8

BNC.34913 / COCA.22875

牛津词典

verb

• （使）减速行驶；降低运行速度
  to reduce the speed at which a vehicle is travelling
• （使）减缓，变慢
  to become or make sth become slower
  1. Economic growth decelerated sharply in June.
     六月份经济增长大幅度减缓。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 降低速度;减速行驶（或动转）
  When a vehicle or machinedeceleratesor when someone in a vehicledecelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
  1. ...the sensation of the train decelerating.
     列车正在减速的感觉
• VERB (通货膨胀、经济增长等的速度)减缓，放慢
  When the rate of something such as inflation or economic growthdecelerates, it slows down.
  1. Inflation has decelerated remarkably over the past two years.
     过去的两年里通货膨胀已经明显放缓。

英英释义

verb

• reduce the speed of
  1. He slowed down the car
  Synonym:slow down
• lose velocity
  1. The car decelerated
  Synonym:slowslow downslow upretard

双语例句

• US Environmental Protection Agency is developing guidelines for coal-fired power plants to bury heat-trapping co2to decelerate global warming effects.
  美国环境保护署为燃煤火力发电厂研拟指导方针，遮蔽吸收热量的二氧化碳，以降低全球暖化的影响。
• Consumer spending ispredicted to decelerate rapidly this year.
  今年消费开支预计要迅速降低。
• A key issue for frontal impacts in smaller cars is controlling the occupants ′ forward motion so that they decelerate to a stop within acceptable limits.
  小型汽车正面碰撞的一个关键问题是控制乘客的前移，令他们在可接受的极限速度内减速停止。
• That suggests the Bank's stance will now be closer to that of the European Central Bank, which has held interest rates every month since June last year and still believes inflation will decelerate only gradually.
  这意味着英国央行的立场目前更接近于欧洲央行（ECB）。自去年6月以来，欧洲央行每个月都维持利率不变，而且目前仍然相信，通胀率将会减速，但过程较为漫长。
• US petroleum stockpiles are at their highest levels since the early 1980s, the energy department revealed this week, and the rapid rebound in demand from the recessionary lows of a year ago has begun to decelerate.
  美国能源部上周公布，美国的石油库存正处于上世纪80年代初以来的最高水平。美国石油需求从一年前经济衰退期间的低谷快速反弹的势头也已开始减缓。
• PARMA is expected to make landfall at northern Luzon again tonight, and PARMA will decelerate as interaction diminishes.
  预料芭玛将于今晚再度登陆吕宋，而随著两气旋的距离逐渐扩大，藤原效应的幅度将会减少。
• On the other hand, the anisotropic consolidation and lower effective consolidation pressure decelerate the degradation of stiffness under the same cyclic stress ratio.
  在相同动应力比作用下较小的有效固结应力和偏压固结减缓了土体刚度的弱化。
• As the body uncoils each segment should stop ( decelerate) as the next body segment accelerates.
  正如身体解盘绕一般，当下一个身体片段加速的时候，当前的每一个片段应该停止（减速）。
• Also, further government tightening could decelerate the current outflow of bank liquidity into equity markets.
  同时，政府进一步实施紧缩政策也会减缓目前银行资金流入股票市场的势头。
• It is true that trend growth tends to slow the more that countries approach the technology frontier and their expansions decelerate to match that of the rich economies.
  没错，当一国更加接近技术边界、其经济减速从而与富裕经济体步调一致时，趋势增长就会放缓。