名詞 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
   同義詞：bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum
4. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

動詞 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.
   制動器太松了，需要調緊。
2. The car in front of me stopped suddenly and I had to brake.
   我前面那輛小汽車突然停住，我只好剎車。
3. The brake doesn't grip properly.
   剎車不靈了。
4. A lot of the cost of maintenance go into renew brake.
   很多的維修費用都花在了更換煞車方面。
5. The driver braked his car suddenly.
   司機突然煞車。

brake

n.（名詞）
A device for slowing or stopping motion, as of a vehicle, especially by contact friction.
閘：使運動減速或停止的裝置，如汽車的減速裝置，尤指通過接觸摩擦
Something that slows or stops action.
制動器：使運動減速或停止的東西
n.attributive.（定語名詞）
Often used to modify another noun:
常用于修飾另一名詞：
例句：
brake fluid; a brake job.
制動液；制動工作

v.（動詞）
braked,brak.ing,brakes
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To reduce the speed of with or as if with a brake.
制動減速：用或似用閘減速
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To operate or apply a brake.
拉閘：操縱或應用閘
To be slowed or stopped by or as if by the operation of a brake.
拉閘減慢，拉閘停止：通過或似通過拉閘以減慢或停止

來源：
Probably brake [bridle, curb]
可能為 brake [馬韁，勒馬帶]
from Middle Dutch
源自 中古荷蘭語
or Middle Low German [nose ring, curb, flax brake] * see brake 2
或 中古低地德語 [鼻環(huán)，勒馬帶，剝麻機] *參見 brake2

<注釋>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.
閘，雖一直在不斷地得到技術改進，但取名于與早期運輸方式相聯(lián)系的一種裝置。據(jù)認為brake 這個術語可能來源于早期的英語詞匯 brake， 它首次出現(xiàn)于'世紀，意指.馬韁或勒馬帶.。總之，我們首次記載出現(xiàn)的詞匯brake 于772年被發(fā)現(xiàn)， 它遠早于汽車的出現(xiàn)

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brake
brake 2

n.（名詞）
A toothed device for crushing and beating flax or hemp.
剝麻機：擠榨和打碎亞麻或大麻的具齒裝置
A heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth.
土耙：打碎土塊的大耙
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.
金屬壓彎成形機：壓彎和折疊金屬板的機器
v.tr.（及物動詞）
braked,brak.ing,brakes
To crush (flax or hemp) in a toothed device.
壓榨：用齒形裝置壓榨（亞麻或大麻）
To break up (clods of earth) with a harrow.
耙土：用耙打碎土塊

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Middle Dutch
源自 中古荷蘭語
from Middle Low German * see bhreg-
源自 中古低地德語 *參見 bhreg-

brake
brake 3

n.（名詞）
A lever or handle on a machine such as a pump.
把手：機器上的扛桿標或把手，如泵上的

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Old French brac [from oblique form of] bras [arm] * see bracer 2
源自 古法語 brac [] 源自bras的間接格形式 [臂] *參見 bracer2

brake
brake 4

n.（名詞）
Any of various ferns of the genusPteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.
鳳尾蕨：一種鳳尾蕨屬 蕨類植物，具有羽狀復葉，包括一些受人喜愛的家庭植物
Any of certain other ferns, such as the bracken or the cliff brake.
歐洲蕨，巖蕨：其他蕨類，如歐洲蕨或巖蕨

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
probably back-formation from braken * see bracken
可能源自 braken的逆成詞 *參見 bracken

brake
brake 5

n.（名詞）
An area overgrown with dense brushwood, briers, and undergrowth; a thicket.
矮樹林：稠密的灌木、荊棘和下層植物繁茂生長的地帶；灌木叢

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Middle Low German * see bhreg-
源自 中古低地德語 *參見 bhreg-

brake
brake '

n.（名詞）
Variant of break
break的變體
v.Archaic （動詞）【古語】
A past tense of break
break的過去式