Lower

(verb.) set lower; 'lower a rating'; 'lower expectations'.

(verb.) cause to drop or sink; 'The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir'.

(verb.) move something or somebody to a lower position; 'take down the vase from the shelf'.

校对:潘西

• And particularly, whether they were ever admitted as members in the lower senate? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In the sights were parallel slits, right, left, upper, lower. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The board on the fore part is lower than the others. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Small elevated tanks, like those of the windmill, frequently have heavy iron bands around their lower portion as a protection against the extra strain. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Placing one end of my harness strap in his hands I lowered him quickly to the ground below. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He was conscious that Madame Olenska was looking at him under lowered lids. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• One by one, I saw these removed, lowered, and seized on. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Unseen we reached a rear window and with the straps and leather of my trappings I lowered, first Sola and then Dejah Thoris to the ground below. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• But, gradually his arm reverted home to him, and his glass was lowered and lowered until he rested it upside down upon the table. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When a large quantity of water is desired, strong machines drill into the ground and excavate an opening into which a wide pipe can be lowered. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The driver stopped his horse and lowered the metal sign on his meter. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Why yes, said Joe, lowering his voice, he's left the Church and went into the playacting. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I don't like these things, but if one carries them out faithfully they are not really lowering. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• A deficient, ill-tempered, lowering, stupid fellow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Some other method of increasing the production without lowering the quality of the printed sheet must be resorted to--and this is duplication. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• And, lowering his voice, you may as well go back again now. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He made no reply, but walked on with a lowering face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But it's the heart that lowers me, it is the heart! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The gun is mounted on a disappearing carriage, which lowers it out of sight behind the breastworks after firing. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A more scientific statement, however, is that the cold vapor absorbs the heat units of the water, and taking them away with it, lowers the temperature of the water to the freezing point. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• While the crane proper is moving through the crane-way, this car travels across the crane, and at the same time raises or lowers whatever may be suspended from it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As is well known common salt mixed with pounded ice or snow lowers the temperature to a considerable degree, so there are other mixtures which will produce a still greater degree of cold. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• They are automatically dropped onto another elevator which lowers them to the point near where they are used in the final assembly. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• These conditions are provided for by conducting the evaporation in a vacuum, which lowers the evaporating temperature and avoids contact with the air. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

整理:理查德