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If someone is lax, they are not strict or careful enough — about rules, work, safety, or how people should act.
If someone is如果一個人 laxlax they are就是說他們 not strict or careful enough不夠嚴格、不夠小心 about rules, work, safety不管是對規定、工作、安全 or how people should act還是對人該怎麼做這件事。
Lax security means the door is too easy to walk through. A lax teacher lets too much slide.
Lax securityLax security（鬆散的安全管制） means意思是 the door那扇門 is too easy to walk through太容易就能走進去。 A lax teacherLax teacher（管得很鬆的老師） lets too much slide就是放太多事情過去不管。
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.
It is almost always這幾乎都是 a complaint一種抱怨 : you are saying意思是說 they should hold the line more firmly對方應該要守得更緊一點才對。 It is這是 a grown-up, slightly formal word一個給大人用、有點正式的字 ; kids more often say小孩比較常說 "too easy on us" or "not strict."「對我們太鬆」或「不嚴格」。 Though actually不過實際上 the older Latin idea拉丁文較早的意思 is是 "loose, not tight,"「鬆、不緊」 and you can still feel that你現在還是能感覺到那個味道 : rules規定 that have gone slack變得鬆散了。
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.
People also use it人們也用它 of a body that is not tense來說身體不緊繃 but but the meaning you will meet most你最常遇到的意思 is還是 this judging one這個帶有評價意味的用法 about care and control講小心和管控的。
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.
Another older English word還有另一個比較舊的英文字 spelled the same拼法一樣 meant意思是 a salmon「鮭魚」 the food word loxlox 這個食物名詞 is a cousin of that one就是它的親戚字 ; that is那個字 not this "not strict" word跟這個「不嚴格」的 lax 不是同一個。
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。