brake

brake

noun

1. a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

2. anything that slows or hinders a process

e.g. she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage
new legislation will put the brakes on spending

3. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

4. large coarse fern often several feet high
essentially weed ferns
cosmopolitan

Synonym: brackenpasture brakePteridium aquilinum

5. any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

verb

1. cause to stop by applying the brakes

e.g. brake the car before you go into a curve

2. stop travelling by applying a brake

e.g. We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road

1. 制动器；刹车；车闸
Brakes are devices in a vehicle that make it go slower or stop.

e.g. The brakes began locking...
制动器开始锁定。
e.g. A seagull swooped down in front of her car, causing her to slam on the brakes.
一只海鸥突然扑到她的车前，她急忙猛踩刹车。

2. 刹车；用刹车使（车）减速；刹住（车）
When a vehicle or its driver brakes, or when a driver brakes a vehicle, the driver makes it slow down or stop by using the brakes.

e.g. He heard tires squeal as the car braked to avoid a collision...
为避免相撞而刹车时，他听到了轮胎与地面刺耳的摩擦声。
e.g. She braked sharply to avoid another car...
她为了躲另一辆车而紧急刹车。

3. 抑制因素；约束
You can use brake in a number of expressions to indicate that something has slowed down or stopped.

e.g. Illness had put a brake on his progress...
疾病使他的进展放缓。
e.g. You can take the financial brakes off in June.
6月份可以放开金融管制。

1. 煞车：回家的路上菲里普告诉我,刚才警官是要检查煞车(brake)灯,让我踩煞车,而我听成倒车(back up),把车倒向了他,难怪他脸都绿了. 警官说我差点杀了他,他很生气,这么危险的中国女人不能拿驾照!