- 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
- Often used to modify another noun:常用于修饰另一名词：brake fluid; a brake job.制动液；制动工作
- To reduce the speed of with or as if with a brake.制动减速：用或似用闸减速
- 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
- 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
- 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 16th century.In any case, the first recorded occurrence of our wordbrake is found in 1772, 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16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1772年被发现， 它远早于汽车的出现
brake
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Middle English 中古英语
- from Middle Low German * see bhreg- 源自 中古低地德语 * 参见 bhreg-
brake
- Variant of break break的变体
- A past tense of break break的过去式