retard

verb

1. 阻碍；减缓；使放慢速度
   to make the development or progress of sth slower
   1. The progression of the disease can be retarded by early surgery.
      早期手术可以抑制病情的发展。

noun

1. 迟钝的人；弱智
   an offensive way of describing sb who is not intelligent or who has not developed normally

The verb is pronounced /rɪ'tɑːd/. The noun is pronounced /'riːtɑːd/. 动词读作/rɪ'tɑːd/。名词读作/'riːtɑːd/。


1. VERB 延迟;减缓;妨碍
   If something retards a process, or the development of something, it makes it happen more slowly.
   1. Continuing violence will retard negotiations over the country's future.
      持续不断的暴力活动会阻碍关系到国家未来的谈判的进行。
2. N-COUNT 笨蛋;傻子
   If you describe someone as a retard, you mean that they have not developed normally, either mentally or socially.
   1. What the hell do I want with an emotional retard?
      和一个感情用事的傻瓜在一起，我究竟是图什么？

1. Continuing violence will retard negotiations over the country's future.
   持续不断的暴力活动会阻碍关系到国家未来的谈判的进行。
2. What the hell do I want with an emotional retard?
   和一个感情用事的傻瓜在一起，我究竟是图什么？
3. Understand the forces in your organization that drive and retard change.
   理解你的组织中有哪些阻碍变革的力量。
4. Recent studies suggest that tea can cut the risk of cancer and heart disease and retard the aging process.
   近期的研究显示，茶能够降低罹患癌症和心脏病的风险，还能延缓衰老。
5. That unpleasant news might retard his recovery.
   那个坏消息可能妨碍他的复元。
6. We must discard the archaisms that retard our culture. often hampers the full development of a growing personality.
   我们必须抛弃妨碍我国文化发展的过时的东西。而匆忙的物理学常常妨碍个性的全面发展。
7. That's the retard! You're the retard.
   这是那个低能儿，你就是那个低能儿。
8. Allowing foreign investment tends to promote sectoral growth, not retard it.
   允许外国投资进入往往会推动（而非阻碍）行业增长。
9. I'm not playing with him, he's a total retard.
   我不和他玩，他是个十足的低能儿。
10. I called you a retard, and I took it back.
    我叫你小傻瓜了，我收回。
11. His daughter is in this retard's hands day and night?
    整天守着他女儿的是这白痴？
12. Which is a bit much for a full-time retard like myself.
    对我这个慢半拍的人有点过分了。
13. All agencies that provoke change and all that retard it can be discribed as'good'or'bad'respectively.
    一切促进变化和一切妨碍变化的力量都可以分别称为“好”的或“坏”的。
14. In the third chapter, we discuss an integral inequalities system with retard and unknown functions of power.
    在本文第三章中，我们研究了一个带有时滞的、未知函数项带有方幂的积分不等式组。
15. He might see that retard.
    他肯定是看到那个傻子了。
16. Conclusions: Intensive treatment may retard the progression of early atherosclerosis but had no effect on the late atherosclerosis.
    结论：强化治疗能逆转早期动脉粥样硬化的发展，对晚期血管病变的改善作用有限。
17. Writing may retard the process of language change under certain conditions.
    在某些情况下，文字可能延缓语言的变化。
18. Lack of sunlight will retard the growth of most plants.
    缺乏阳光会妨碍大多数植物的生长。
19. The lack of glucose's by-products might retard aging in another way as well.
    缺乏葡萄糖代谢的产物，可能也会透过另一种方式来延缓老化。
20. Why's he acts like a retard?
    他为什么像一个迟钝的人？
21. Sometimes, just putting your finger on a clock trace adds enough parasitic capacitance to retard the clock edges.
    有时候，只是将手指放在时钟轨迹上，加上足够的寄生电容来延迟时钟沿。
22. Numerous and extensive eddy cavities retard the turbulent mixing process.
    多而大的涡流区延迟了扰动的混合过程。
23. A coating of a tar or rubber-based material on the underside of a motor vehicle to retard corrosion.
    机动车辆底部为防腐蚀而涂上的一层柏油或橡胶材料。
24. And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life's growth.
    今天，我开始新的生活。我郑重地发誓，绝不让任何事情妨碍我新生命的成长。
25. He made the statement without retard to the opinion of the other members of the board.
    他不顾委员会其他成员的意见擅自发表的声明。
26. You are being the most dramatic retard.
    你现在像是个非常戏剧化的白吃。
27. Weii, you were bound to inherit a retard sooner or iater.
    所以你迟早会继承一个迟钝儿。
28. A rise in interest rates would severely retard economic growth.
    利率的上升将严重阻碍经济的增长。
29. Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion.
    倾向于妨碍或阻滞运动的机械力量。
30. The methods of meta-analysis have showed that these methods retard the innovation of theory and the development of cumulative knowledge in psychology.
    元分析方法已经表明传统的统计方法延缓了心理学理论的创新和知识累积的增长。

noun

1. a person of subnormal intelligence

   Synonym:    idiotimbecilecretinmoronchangelinghalf-wit

verb

1. cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate
   1. This drug will retard your heart rate

2. lose velocity
   1. The car decelerated

   Synonym:    decelerateslowslow downslow up

3. slow the growth or development of
   1. The brain damage will retard the child's language development

   Synonym:    checkdelay

4. be delayed