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Lowering your standards.
降低你的标准。
Try lowering the amount to $125, to get the order approved this time.
尝试将金额降低到 125 美元，以便这次能够批准订单。
Even though some of this would have to go in lowering marginal rates, it is a little like finding money behind the sofa cushions.
尽管这样做从某种程度上讲必将导致出现降低边际税率的后果，但还是有点像在沙发垫后面找到钱的感觉。

But he says studies have not clearly shown that lowering salt means fewer heart attacks or strokes.
What we've seen is we have a net lowering of energy of the molecule versus the individual atoms.
分子轨道对于单个原子轨道来说,我们可以看到的是一个净的能量降低。
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How do I keep p1 constant while I'm lowering the volume?
怎么保持压强不变,而减小体积？
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Ford pushed suppliers to develop closed-loop manufacturing processes, which had the added benefit of lowering costs.
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used to describe the sky when it is very dark and it looks as if it is about to rain

You can use lower to refer to the bottom one of a pair of things.
You can use lower to refer to the bottom part of something.
You can use lower to refer to people or things that are less important than similar people or things.
If you lower something, you move it slowly downward.
lowering
If you lower something, you make it less in amount, degree, value, or quality.
lowering
If someone lowers their head or eyes, they look downward, for example, because they are sad or embarrassed.
If you say that you would not lower yourself by doing something, you mean that you would not behave in a way that would make you or other people respect you less.
If you lower your voice or if your voice lowers, you speak more quietly.
&rarrsee also low