lax
/læks/adjective
1
- not sufficiently strict or severe松弛的, 不严格的：
lax security arrangements at the airport
松散的机场安全措施
he'd been a bit lax about discipline in school lately.
他近来在学校纪律方面有些放松。
1.1
- careless粗心的, 疏忽的：
a mixture of demanding bowling and lax batsmanship saw four wickets fall after lunch.
难击的投球加上击球无力使午饭后四名击手出局。
2
- (of the limbs or muscles) relaxed（四肢, 肌肉）放松的。
2.1
- (of the bowels) loose（肠子）腹泻的。
2.2
- Phonetics (of a speech sound, especially a vowel) pronounced with the vocal muscles relaxed【语音】（语音, 尤指元音）松（弛）的。
TENSE1 的反义词。
派生词
laxity
nounlaxly
adverblaxness
noun词源
late Middle English （in the sense 'loose'， said of the bowels）： from Latin laxus.