- 1鬆懈；不嚴格
If someone is lax, they are not strict or careful enough — about rules, work, safety, or how people should act. Lax security means the door is too easy to walk through. A lax teacher lets too much slide. It is almost always a complaint: you are saying they should hold the line more firmly. It is a grown-up, slightly formal word; kids more often say “too easy on us” or “not strict.” Though actually, the older Latin idea is “loose, not tight,” and you can still feel that: rules that have gone slack. People also use it of a body that is not tense, but the meaning you will meet most is this judging one about care and control. Another older English word spelled the same meant a salmon (the food word is a cousin of that one); that is not this “not strict” word.
From the word’s history
Borrowed from Latin laxus 'wide, roomy, loose'.
借自拉丁文 laxus「寬鬆的」。
組成Borrowed from Latin laxus, “wide, roomy, loose.” (A different English word spelled the same, the salmon, comes from Old English leax and is not this adjective.)
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
LAXname
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Los Angeles International Airport
- I have visited more than half a dozen carrier training facilities, spent over 150 hours on jumpseats, piloted a Lockheed 1011 from MIA to LAX, visited numerous towers, rapcons, and centers, and discussed our commercial Air Transport System with everyone involved.
- Fortunately, most of these were former French colonies, and through a combination of quiet diplomacy and well-placed French nationals in the various air-traffic-control centers, the 300-mile-long stream of American aircraft flew the width of Africa as uneventfully as a red-eye flight from LAX to JFK.
Laxname
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A surname.
laxnoun詞源 1/læks/
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dialectalA salmon.
laxadj詞源 2/læks/
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Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
- The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
- Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions.
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Loose; not tight or taut.
- The rope fell lax.
- The Fleſh of this ſort of [cartilaginous] Fiſh being lax and ſpungy, and nothing ſo firm, ſolid and weighty as that of the bony Fiſhes, and there being a good quantity of Air contained in the Cavity of their Abdomen, they cannot ſink in the Water without letting in ſome of it by theſe Holes (the Orifices whereof are opened and ſhut at pleaſure by the help of Muſcles provided for that purpoſe) into the hollow of their Bellies, whereby they preponderate the Water and deſcend; […]
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Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
- The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
- Prior to this match, Albion had only scored three league goals all season, but Wes Brown's lax marking allowed Morrison to head in their fourth from a Chris Brunt free-kick and then, a minute later, the initial squandering of possession and Michael Turner's lack of pace let Long run through to slot in another.
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mathematicssciencesDescribing an associative monoidal functor.
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archaicHaving a looseness of the bowels; diarrheic.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciences(of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
laxnoun詞源 3/læks/
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slanglacrosse.
- “I'm not playing lax this term,” Mimah said.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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