brake
brake1
noun
brake2
noun
brake3
noun
brake4
noun
brake5
(亦作 brake fern)
noun
brake6
noun
- a device for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, typically by applying pressure to the wheels
闸；刹车；制动装置
he slammed on his brakes.
他使劲踩住了刹车。
[as modifier]a brake pedal.
刹车踏板。
■(figurative)a thing that slows or hinders a process
(喻)阻碍（物），抑制（物）
constrained resources will act as a brake on research.
有限的资源将阻碍研究进程。
■another term for brake van
同 brake van
- [noobj.]make a moving vehicle slow down or stop by using a brake
（用刹车）使（某物）减速或停下；刹住（车）
she had to brake hard to avoid a milk float.
为了不撞上那辆送牛奶的电瓶车，她不得不来了个急刹车。
[as adj. braking]an anti-lock braking system.
防抱刹车系统。
- late 18th cent.: of unknown origin
brake2
noun
- (historical)an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels
(史)敞篷四轮马车
- mid 19th cent.: variant of break
brake3
noun
- a toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp
（亚麻纤维等的）捣碎机
■(亦作 brake harrow)a heavy machine formerly used in agriculture for breaking up large lumps of earth
（旧时的重型）碎土机
- late Middle English : possibly related to Middle Low German brake and Dutch braak, and perhaps also to break
brake4
noun
- (archaic or poetic/literary)a thicket
(古，诗/文)灌木丛。 参见 fernbrake
- Old English bracu (first recorded in the plural in fearnbraca 'thickets of fern'), related to Middle Low German brake 'branch, stump'
brake5
(亦作 brake fern)
noun
- a coarse fern of warm and tropical countries, frequently having the fronds divided into long linear segments
欧洲蕨，凤尾蕨 - Genus Pteris, family Pteridaceae
凤尾蕨属，凤尾蕨科
■archaic term for bracken
(古)。 同 bracken
- Middle English : perhaps an abbreviation of bracken (interpreted as plural)
brake6
- archaic past of break
(古)。 break 的过去式
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