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

• A number of measures of inflation in the US have already started to decelerate, indicating that companies are absorbing input price increases into margins.
  在美国，多项通胀指标已经开始减速，表明公司都在压缩利润率以吸收增加的成本。
• 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。
• In many applications, under the circumstances of different target distances, more than one step motor are required to start, accelerate, high speed, decelerate, brake to stop simultaneously.
  在很多应用场合中，要求多台步进电机在运行目标距离不同的情况下，能同时启动、加速、高速、减速、制动停止。
• 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。
• Widely watched indices of manufacturing and service sector activity for the US due for release this week are likely to confirm that the American economy continues to decelerate.
  本周，美国将发布广受关注的制造业和服务业活动指数，这些数据有可能证实，美国经济正继续减速。
• Although the growth rate is expected to decelerate somewhat in the current fourth quarter, the improved view in the rearview mirror corresponds with other evidence suggesting that the economy is moving to a higher gear.
  尽管在当前的四季度，经济增幅预计将有所下滑，但对之前经济数据的向上修正和其他一些证据均指向了同一个事实，即美国经济正在换挡加速。
• Lifting the head makes you decelerate, and that is just the opposite of what you wanna do of the finish.
  抬头使你减速，这跟你冲刺的目的是背道而驰的。
• 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。
• 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。