Regulate

(verb.) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; 'regulate the temperature'; 'modulate the pitch'.

(verb.) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; 'We cannot regulate the way people dress'; 'This town likes to regulate'.

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• Then came improved weighted and other safety valves to regulate and control this pressure. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀(jì)發(fā)明.
• There was a chairman to regulate the proceedings, and this functionary now took the case into his own hands. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
• Gauge cocks to indicate the height of water, and a safety valve to regulate the pressure of steam, were employed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀(jì)發(fā)明.
• I then had a standard made to hold another oil-cup, so as to see and regulate the drop-feed. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發(fā)明.
• A great variety of lamps was made of the platinum-iridium type, mostly with thermal devices to regulate the temperature of the burner and prevent its being melted by an excess of current. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發(fā)明.
• Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. 亞當(dāng)·斯密. 國富論.
• It is necessary to feel the sentiment and passion of pride in conformity to it, and to regulate our actions accordingly. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• The clocks thus controlled ought to be so regulated that if left to themselves they would always gain a little, but not more than a few minutes per day. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. 威廉K.戴維. 智者、化學(xué)家和偉大醫(yī)生的秘密.
• Courage and ambition, when not regulated by benevolence, are fit only to make a tyrant and public robber. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• The country does not abound in fresh water, and the length of the marches had to be regulated by the distance between water supplies. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• Thus all the clocks in the series could be regulated every hour, for the collapse of the clippers pushed the hand forward if it were too late, or thrust it back if it had gained. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• Such companies, whether regulated or joint-stock, sometimes have, and sometimes have not, exclusive privileges. 亞當(dāng)·斯密. 國富論.
• Every day, uncontrolled fire wipes out human lives and destroys vast amounts of property; every day, fire, controlled and regulated in stove and furnace, cooks our food and warms our houses. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學(xué)通論.
• The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United States. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The liquid ammonia flows through the regulating valve _V_ into the coil _E_, in which the pressure is kept low by the pump _C_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學(xué)通論.
• Perhaps the most important part of that journal is the _plan_ to be found in it, which I formed at sea, for regulating the future conduct of my life. 本杰明·富蘭克林. 富蘭克林自傳.
• A reservoir containing highly compressed air is fixed on the diver’s back, which supplies him with air by a self-regulating apparatus at a pressure corresponding to his depth. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• Hence the public has the right of regulating descents, and all other conveyances of property, and even of limiting the quantity and the uses of it. 本杰明·富蘭克林. 富蘭克林自傳.
• Closely allied to the practical use of the incandescent lamp is the method of supplying and regulating the current from the dynamo. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀(jì)發(fā)明進(jìn)展.
• To secure a regular and uniform motion in the performance of his engine Watt invented the automatic or self-regulating ball governor and throttle valve. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀(jì)發(fā)明進(jìn)展.
• The quantity of money which he gets for them regulates, too, the quantity of bread and beer which he can afterwards purchase. 亞當(dāng)·斯密. 國富論.
• Except in particular situations, therefore, the rent of corn land regulates in Europe that of all other cultivated land. 亞當(dāng)·斯密. 國富論.
• Necessity makes it usual for almost every man to be so, and custom everywhere regulates fashion. 亞當(dāng)·斯密. 國富論.
• Their wages are not greater than those of common labourers at the port which regulates the rate of seamen's wages. 亞當(dāng)·斯密. 國富論.
• In Scotland, there is no general law which regulates universally the duration of apprenticeships. 亞當(dāng)·斯密. 國富論.

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