brake

名词 brake:

1. a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
2. any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
3. large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
   同义词：bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum
4. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

动词 brake:

1. stop travelling by applying a brake
2. cause to stop by applying the brakes

1. There's too much travel on the brake, it needs tightening.
   制动器太松了，需要调紧。
2. The car in front of me stopped suddenly and I had to brake.
   我前面那辆小汽车突然停住，我只好刹车。
3. The brake doesn't grip properly.
   刹车不灵了。
4. A lot of the cost of maintenance go into renew brake.
   很多的维修费用都花在了更换煞车方面。
5. The driver braked his car suddenly.
   司机突然煞车。

brake

n.（名词）
A device for slowing or stopping motion, as of a vehicle, especially by contact friction.
闸：使运动减速或停止的装置，如汽车的减速装置，尤指通过接触摩擦
Something that slows or stops action.
制动器：使运动减速或停止的东西
n.attributive.（定语名词）
Often used to modify another noun:
常用于修饰另一名词：
例句：
brake fluid; a brake job.
制动液；制动工作

v.（动词）
braked,brak.ing,brakes
v.tr.（及物动词）
To reduce the speed of with or as if with a brake.
制动减速：用或似用闸减速
v.intr.（不及物动词）
To operate or apply a brake.
拉闸：操纵或应用闸
To be slowed or stopped by or as if by the operation of a brake.
拉闸减慢，拉闸停止：通过或似通过拉闸以减慢或停止

来源：
Probably brake [bridle, curb]
可能为 brake [马缰，勒马带]
from Middle Dutch
源自 中古荷兰语
or Middle Low German [nose ring, curb, flax brake] * see brake 2
或 中古低地德语 [鼻环，勒马带，剥麻机] *参见 brake2

<注释>Brakes, which are constantly becoming more technologically advanced,may take their name from a device associated with an earlier mode of transportation.It is thought that the termbrake may come from an earlier English word brake, meaning .a bridle or curb,. first recorded in the 'th century.In any case, the first recorded occurrence of our wordbrake is found in 772, well before the advent of the automobile.
闸，虽一直在不断地得到技术改进，但取名于与早期运输方式相联系的一种装置。据认为brake 这个术语可能来源于早期的英语词汇 brake， 它首次出现于'世纪，意指.马缰或勒马带.。总之，我们首次记载出现的词汇brake 于772年被发现， 它远早于汽车的出现

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brake
brake 2

n.（名词）
A toothed device for crushing and beating flax or hemp.
剥麻机：挤榨和打碎亚麻或大麻的具齿装置
A heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth.
土耙：打碎土块的大耙
An apparatus for kneading large amounts of dough.
揉面器：揉制大量面料的器械
A machine for bending and folding sheet metal.
金属压弯成形机：压弯和折叠金属板的机器
v.tr.（及物动词）
braked,brak.ing,brakes
To crush (flax or hemp) in a toothed device.
压榨：用齿形装置压榨（亚麻或大麻）
To break up (clods of earth) with a harrow.
耙土：用耙打碎土块

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Middle Dutch
源自 中古荷兰语
from Middle Low German * see bhreg-
源自 中古低地德语 *参见 bhreg-

brake
brake 3

n.（名词）
A lever or handle on a machine such as a pump.
把手：机器上的扛杆标或把手，如泵上的

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old French brac [from oblique form of] bras [arm] * see bracer 2
源自 古法语 brac [] 源自bras的间接格形式 [臂] *参见 bracer2

brake
brake 4

n.（名词）
Any of various ferns of the genusPteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.
凤尾蕨：一种凤尾蕨属 蕨类植物，具有羽状复叶，包括一些受人喜爱的家庭植物
Any of certain other ferns, such as the bracken or the cliff brake.
欧洲蕨，岩蕨：其他蕨类，如欧洲蕨或岩蕨

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
probably back-formation from braken * see bracken
可能源自 braken的逆成词 *参见 bracken

brake
brake 5

n.（名词）
An area overgrown with dense brushwood, briers, and undergrowth; a thicket.
矮树林：稠密的灌木、荆棘和下层植物繁茂生长的地带；灌木丛

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Middle Low German * see bhreg-
源自 中古低地德语 *参见 bhreg-

brake
brake '

n.（名词）
Variant of break
break的变体
v.Archaic （动词）【古语】
A past tense of break
break的过去式