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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• Sociologists are trying to adopt an approach to decelerate the growth of population.
  社会学家正试图采取某种方式减缓人口的增长速度。
• At Ogilvy& Mather, the advertising agency, employees have continuing career conversations with supervisors and team members, and many executives accelerate or decelerate their careers over time.
  在广告代理公司奥美（ogilvy&mather），员工和其主管及团队成员会不断进行职业生涯方面的对话，很多经理人不时为他们的职业生涯加速或减速。
• 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。
• By doing this, you will be assured of having accelerated all the way through the hit; only decelerate at the end of your follow-through.
  如此作，确定你挥拍整个过程中能完成加速，仅在随后完成的末端减速。
• 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。
• The mass between us and Virgo tends to decelerate the recession of our galaxy, as expected according to Hubble's law by about ten percent.
  我们和室女座之间质量趋于减慢我们银河后退，如预期的依照大约百分之十的哈勃定律那样。
• 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。