lower
英 ['l???]
美['lo?]
- vt. 減弱，減少；放下，降下；貶低
- vi. 降低；減弱；跌落
- adj. 下游的；下級(jí)的；下等的
- n. (Lower)人名；(英、意)洛厄
考試真題
- Millions of irrigation wells have significantly lowered water tables in almost every state.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- It allows for economic efficiency, and when we buy things from places that have lower production costs than we do, we benefit.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- But the 1980s brought new competition from Japanese film company Fuji Photo, which undermined Kodak by offering lower prices for film and photo supplies.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- They also calculated the cost savings emerging from the amount of disease that would be avoided because of lower blood pressure
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- It helps us lower usage at peak power times," says solar expert Mike Keesee.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- Forcing a person to think positive thoughts may lower their self-esteem.
出自-2010年6月閱讀原文
- Place the tea on a lower shelf next time.
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
- "Being taller is associated with longer life expectancy," he said, "This is largely due to a lower risk of dying of cardiovascular (心血管的) disease among taller people."
2019年6月四級(jí)真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- Children of educated and upper-middle-class parents turn out to be far more curious, even at early ages, than children of working class and lower class families.
2017年12月四級(jí)真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Further, the energy used by microwaves is lower than any other from of cooking.
2019年12月四級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- In April, France passed a law setting lower limits for a model's weight.
2016年12月四級(jí)真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- In one US study that analysed the health data of 50,000 people over seven years, researchers found that those who made breakfast the largest meal of the day were more likely to have a lower body mass index BMI than those who ate a large lunch or dinner.
2019年12月四級(jí)真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lower class.
2015年12月四級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section A
- In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.
2016年12月四級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Most of Africa is urbanising at a lower level of income than other regions of the world did.
2017年12月四級(jí)真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- Once you get beyond the initial learning curve, knitting and crocheting can lower heart rate and blood pressure.
2017年12月四級(jí)真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Over the centuries, Etna's lower slopes have been shaped by human hands to take advantage of rich soils for growing grapes, apples and nuts.
2019年6月四級(jí)真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- People who prioritise breakfasts tend to have lower calorie but higher nutritional intake.
2019年12月四級(jí)真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- PepsiCo is to spend billions of dollars to develop drinks and snacks and reformulate existing ones with lower sugar, salt and fat, as consumers demand healthier options and regulatory pressure intensifies amid an obesity epidemic.
2018年12月四級(jí)真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- Sara Johnson acknowledges that the global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely lower than it was in the past.
2016年12月四級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Students who don't get enough sleep have poor attendance and lower grades.
2016年6月四級(jí)真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- The lower oxygen pressure found in an aircraft cabin is equivalent to that at 6, 000-8, 000 feet of altitude.
2019年12月四級(jí)真題（第三套）閱讀 Section A
- The more money a project sought, the lower the chance it reached its goal, the researchers found.
2019年12月四級(jí)真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- To promote sales of its products by lowering prices.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Contrary to analysts' doubts, the author believes drug prices may be lowered through negotiation.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Arum and Roksa placed the blame for students' lack of learning on a watered-down college curriculum and lowered undergraduate work standards.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- A 2012 press release from Statistics Sweden bears the title "Gender Equality in Sweden Treading(踩)Water" and notes: 1、The total income from employment for all ages is lower for women than for men
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- Eroding religious belief in Europe may partly explain lowered birthrates.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- a parent, relative, friend, or doctor outside the family, had higher self-esteem, higher grades, and lower substance use than peers whose role models were sports figures, singers, or other media characters.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- In the same way, a significant reduction of wasteful agricultural subsidies could also lower the deficit.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- Some critics blame affirmative action – students admitted with lower test scores and grades from shaky high schools often struggle at elite schools.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- Immigrants provide cheap labor, lower the prices of everything from farm produce to new homes, and leave consumers with a little more money in their pockets
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- Granted, these producers'avings probably translate into lower prices at the grocery store, but how many consumers make that mental connection at the checkout counter
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- They can get consumer goods at lower prices
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- John Rother, the AARP's head of policy and strategy, points to studies showing that other things being equal, people who remain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers.
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
- For example, men who endorse traditional masculine norms report lower relationship satisfaction, as do their female partners
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
- Further, children whose fathers are warm, loving, and accepting toward them have higher self-esteem and lower rates of aggression and behavior problems.
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
- Because of her "improvement" theory, I got a lower grade than I deserve.
出自-2010年6月閱讀原文
- Moreover they site several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthen family relationships, lower dropout rates, the facts that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased motivation, higher standardized test scores, and reduced discipline problems.
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
- They will be lower than conventional parking.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- The platform is lowered into the garage, and it is then transported to a vacant parking space by a computer-controlled device similar to an elevator that also runs sideways.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- Another plus, rents are lower in Utah than in Nevada.
出自-2012年12月聽力原文
- Or if you do climb higher sooner, come back down to a lower height when you sleep
出自-2012年12月聽力原文
- Lower their prices to attract more customers.
出自-2011年6月聽力原文
- "One of the ways in which all agents seem to make decisions is that they assign a lower weighting to outcomes that are going to be further away in the future," he says.
2015年12月六級(jí)真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.
2017年6月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.
2016年6月六級(jí)真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- And your prices are much lower than the same goods in shops round about.
2016年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- As fifth-graders, children with early attention problems obtained average reading scores at least 3% lower than their contemporaries' and grades at least 8% lower than those of their peers.
2018年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Because children's brain and behavioral disorders, like hyperactivity and lower grades, can also be linked to social and genetic factors, it's tough to pin them on exposure to specific chemicals with solid 33 statistical evidence, which is what the EPA re
2015年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section A
- By fifth grade, children with early attention difficulties had lower grades and reading achievement scores than their peers.
2018年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Children not as liked by their first-grade peers had slightly lower grades in fifth grade, while those with higher social acceptance had higher grades.
2018年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- For instance, years with a larger increase in online usage were followed by years with lower well-being, rather than the other way around.
2019年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- However, higher doses of screen time were clearly associated with lower happiness.
2019年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- In addition, more TV watching and more electronic communication both correlated with lower well-being.
2019年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- Insurance can be purchased at a lower rate during the young years.
2017年12月六級(jí)真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- International Labour Organization economists say some nations have come up with policies to lessen the impact of lower wages during the economic crisis.
2016年6月六級(jí)真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- It turns out that those who consumed the highest levels of fiber during adolescence had a lower risk of developing breast cancer, compared to the women who ate the least fiber.
2017年6月六級(jí)真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- Less sport, and fewer meetings with peers correlated with lower well-being, as did less time reading print media newspapers and, surprisingly, less time doing homework.
2019年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- Lower reading achievement scores and grades in fifth grade contributed to reduced grades in middle school and thereby contributed to a 40% lower high school graduation rate.
2018年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Now, though a novel type of steel has been developed that resists fractures at much lower temperatures, while retaining its strength and toughness-without the need for expensive additives.
2019年6月六級(jí)真題（第三套）閱讀 Section A
- oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer.
2017年6月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- Research now says adding fiber to the teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.
2017年6月六級(jí)真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- The bottom line here is the more fiber you eat, perhaps, a lower level of hormone in your body, and therefore, a lower lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.
2017年6月六級(jí)真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- The Mediterranean groups had lower mortality rates in all age brackets and from all causes, particularly from heart disease.
2017年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years 81 percent.
2015年12月六級(jí)真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- These early ancestors of modern Eurasians dispersed into parts of the world that had more seasonal sunshine and much lower levels of sun radiation.
2019年6月六級(jí)真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- This important study demonstrates that the more fiber you eat during your high school years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer in later life.
2017年6月六級(jí)真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- When an exhausted student goes to school, he risks hurting everyone on the road with his impaired driving; he doesn't have the cognitive resources to do well on his English test; he has lower self-control with his friends; and at home, he is moody with hi
2018年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- Another important design goal is communication, which designers have improved by lowering the walls that separate workstations.
2015年高考英語上海卷 選詞填空 原文
- But Simon decided to risk his life and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope.
2014年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文
- Children's comparing themselves to others online may lead to lower self-identity and confidence.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- He could have bought it at a lower price.
2015年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 選項(xiàng)
- I quickly lower myself, ducking my head to avoid looking directly into his eyes so he doesn't feel challenged.
2018年高考英語全國卷3 語法填空 原文
- It turns out that just looking at green,growing things can reduce stress,lower blood pressure,and put people into a better mood.
2019年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- It was coined by the trans-research institute to describe a new philosophy by which high achievers at work chose a lower salary in exchange for a better quality of life.
2015年高考英語上海卷 聽力 原文
- Jacob Sattelmair from Harvard University has done a study into how much exercise is needed to lower the risk of heart attacks.
2019年高考英語全國卷I 聽力 原文
- Now that the chances of dying young are much lower, the chances of living long are much higher due to better diets and health care.
2015年高考英語廣東卷 完形填空 原文
- Still, the people who exercise 150 minutes a week did pretty well, too, lowering their death risk by 14%.
2019年高考英語全國卷I 聽力 原文
- The only two options were to lower the Chicago river or raise the city.
2015年高考英語湖南卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- The study showed that people who put in 300 minutes a week of exercise had a 20% lower risk of death due to heart disease.
2019年高考英語全國卷I 聽力 原文
- There has been a recent trend in the food service industry toward lower fat content and less salt.
2017年高考英語全國卷1 語法填空 原文
- They conclude that when task interdependence is high, team performance will suffer when there is too much talent, while individual talent will have positive effects on team performance when task interdependence is lower.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- They couldn't see or hear each other and, by mistake, simon lowered his friend over the edge of a precipice.
2014年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文
- They have lowered their co-levels in forty cities.
2014年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 選項(xiàng)
- Traditional wisdom also has it that heavy television-watching lowers IQ scores and affects school performance.
2015年高考英語廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- When entering the house, the customer would see the pacific ocean through the windows, and then the pool through an open stairway leading to the lower level.
2015年高考英語重慶卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Yet, people of lower iq tend to be lifelong television viewers.
2015年高考英語廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- "Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home." writes one of the researchers, Sarah Damaske .
2015年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- "We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials," says one
2016年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Now even the project's greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a "Bermuda triangle" of debt, population decline and lower growth.
2011年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Overhead may be high and circulation lower, but rushing to eliminate its print edition would be a mistake, says BuzzFeed CEO Joah Peretti.
2016年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Oxytocin is made primarily in the central lower part of the brain, and some of it is released into the bloodstream.
2017年考研真題（英語一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- Stereotypes associated with obesity include laziness, lack of will power, and lower prospects for success.
2014年考研真題（英語二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- Their analysis ruled out the possibility that it was firms' political influence, rather than their CSR stand, that accounted for the leniency: Companies that contributed more to political campaigns did not receive lower fines.
2016年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Their grades are lower and their dropout rates are higher.
2015年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ