- (disapproving)
not strict, severe or careful enough about work, rules or standards of behaviour synonym slack, careless不嚴格的;不嚴厲的;馬虎的 lax security/discipline 不嚴格的保安措施/紀律 a lax attitude to health and safety regulations 對衛生與安全條例的馬虎態度
(of parts of the body )身體部位 relaxed 鬆弛的;鬆音的 Her body went completely lax in his arms. 她的身體在他的懷抱中完全放鬆了。 The glass dropped from his lax fingers onto the floor. 玻璃從他鬆鬆垮垮的手指上掉到了地板上。
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phonetics )語音學 (of a speech sound )語音 produced with the muscles of the speech organs relaxed opposite tense鬆弛的;鬆音的
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘loose’, relating to the bowels): from Latin laxus.