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. 世纪发明.
• There was a chairman to regulate the proceedings, and this functionary now took the case into his own hands. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• 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. 世纪发明.
• I then had a standard made to hold another oil-cup, so as to see and regulate the drop-feed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is necessary to feel the sentiment and passion of pride in conformity to it, and to regulate our actions accordingly. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• 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. 神奇的知识之书.
• 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.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Courage and ambition, when not regulated by benevolence, are fit only to make a tyrant and public robber. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• 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·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• 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·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Such companies, whether regulated or joint-stock, sometimes have, and sometimes have not, exclusive privileges. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• 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. 科学通论.
• The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United States. 威尔基·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. 科学通论.
• 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·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• 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. 神奇的知识之书.
• 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·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The quantity of money which he gets for them regulates, too, the quantity of bread and beer which he can afterwards purchase. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Except in particular situations, therefore, the rent of corn land regulates in Europe that of all other cultivated land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Necessity makes it usual for almost every man to be so, and custom everywhere regulates fashion. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Their wages are not greater than those of common labourers at the port which regulates the rate of seamen's wages. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In Scotland, there is no general law which regulates universally the duration of apprenticeships. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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