英语释义
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n a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle
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n a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
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n any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
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n large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
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n an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
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n anything that slows or hinders a process
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v stop travelling by applying a brake
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v cause to stop by applying the brakes