英式：[sl?ks]
美式：[sl?ks]

adj.松弛的；懈怠的；蕭條的

n.松弛的部分；松散；淡季

vt.使緩慢；疏忽

vi.變松弛；逃避工作

用作形容詞 (adj.)

A rope is slack if it hasn't been pulled tight. 如果一根繩子沒有拉緊,那它是松的。

She was shocked at the slack discipline in the school. 對(duì)于學(xué)校松弛的紀(jì)律她感到震驚。

He is slack in answering letters. 他疏于回信。

After intense work in the summer, we are slack off now. 夏季緊張的工作過後，我們現(xiàn)在放松了。

Business is slack at this season. 在這個(gè)季節(jié)生意清淡蕭條。

February is a slack time for hotels by the sea. 二月份是海濱旅館的淡季。

用作名詞 (n.)

There is too much slack in the rope. 這條繩子太松了。

The sailor pull at the rope to take up the slack. 水手們拉起繩索把它收緊。

Our boss doesn't give us any slack. 老板從來不讓我們有一絲的松懈。

There's a certain amount of slack in the car industry at the moment. 眼下汽車工業(yè)不太景氣。

用作及物動(dòng)詞 (vt.)

The driver slacked up before reaching the crossroads. 司機(jī)在駛近十字路口時(shí)減慢了速度。

Freight-car loadings continue to slack off. 火車貨運(yùn)的運(yùn)輸量繼續(xù)減少。

Don't slack off in your studies. 不要荒費(fèi)你的學(xué)業(yè)。

用作不及物動(dòng)詞 (vi.)

You should slack the rope before trying to untie the knot. 解結(jié)之前你應(yīng)該先將繩索放松。

Slack up the tent ropes before it rains. 在下雨之前把帳篷的繩子放松。

v.(動(dòng)詞)

slack的基本意思是指某人做某事時(shí)“懈怠,偷懶”,用于交通工具時(shí)指“減速”。

slack既可用作不及物動(dòng)詞,也可用作及物動(dòng)詞。用作及物動(dòng)詞時(shí),接名詞或代詞作賓語; 用作不及物動(dòng)詞時(shí),常與down, off, up等連用。

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