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单词 brakes
释义
brakes
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n

Brakes help you slow down your car and bring it safely to a stop. When you hit the brakes, you bring your car to a slower speed.
Don't confuse brakes with breaks, which are periods of time in which activity stops, like coffee breaks or winter break. Both of these sound-alike words can also be verbs: you brake when your foot presses down on the pedal that makes a vehicle slow down. When you break for dinner, you stop working in order to eat, but if you break something, like a window, you cause damage — the thing you break no longer works.
WORD FAMILY
brake: braked, brakes, braking, braky
USAGE EXAMPLES
That reality fueled several successful efforts in 2016 to put the brakes on government red tape.
Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017)
Ground was broken in 1972, but a fiscal crisis in the city slammed the brakes on the project again.
Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016)
And a top national security official who values dialogue over diatribes is what we need to put the brakes on Trump’s most frightening counterterrorism proposals.
Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016)
n a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
brake system
hydraulic brake, hydraulic brakes
brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder; brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes
disc brake, disk brake
hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads
drum brake
hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe
foot brake
hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal
brake
a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
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