slack
adj
(-er, -est)
1 not tight or tense; loose 不緊的; 松弛的: a slack rope 松弛的繩子
The boxer's jaw went slack. 那拳擊手的下巴松了下來.
Your grip on the bar is too slack. 這根棒你握得太松了.
2
(a) ~ (at/about sth) (of a person) giving little care and energy to a task (指人)懈怠的, 疏忽的
He's been getting slack and making silly mistakes. 他越來越懶散, 出了些荒謬的錯誤.
Don't get slack about doing yourexercises. 不要疏於練習(xí).
(b) not carefully done, planned,etc; lax (做得、 計畫得)粗心的, 馬虎的, 松散的
Organization of the conference was rather slack. 會議的組織工作很松散.
3 (of business) not having many customers, sales, etc; not busy (指生意)清淡, 蕭條, 不景氣
Trade is slack in winter. 冬季貿(mào)易不景氣.
Demand is slack over the summer months. 夏季的幾個月市場滯銷.
4 (esp of water) slow-moving; sluggish (尤指水流)緩慢的, 滯緩的. slack, v
1 [I] be lazy; avoid work 怠惰; 偷懶
Stop slacking and get on with that digging! 別偷懶, 繼續(xù)挖!
2 (phr v) slack off/up
(a) reduce one's level of activity 松懈; 放松
After intense work in the summer, we are slacking off now. 夏季緊張的工作過後, 我們現(xiàn)在放松了.
(b) reduce speed 減速; 放慢
Slack off/up as youapproach the junction. 接近交叉口時要減速. slack (sth) up make (a rope, etc) less tight or tense 將(繩子等)放松.
slack n
1 [U] slack part of a rope, etc (繩等的)松弛部分
too much slack in the tow-rope 拖纜很松.
2 slacks [pl]
casual trousers for men or women 寬松的褲子(便裝的男褲或女褲)
a pair of slacks 一條寬松的褲子.
3 [U] coal-dust left over after coal has been screened (煤經(jīng)篩後剩下的)煤末.
4 (idm 習(xí)語) take up the `slack
(a) pull on a rope, etc so that it is no longer slack 拉緊繩子
The tractor took up the slack and pulled the trailer out of the mud. 拖拉機拉緊拖纜把拖車從泥中拉了出來.
(b) (in industry) make little-used resources more productive (工業(yè)中)充分利用閑置資源.