Flatten
['flæt(ə)n] or ['flætn]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) lower the pitch of (musical notes).
(verb.) become flat or flatter; 'The landscape flattened'.
(verb.) make flat or flatter; 'flatten a road'; 'flatten your stomach with these exercises'.
博妮塔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
(a.) To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
(a.) To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
(a.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
(v. i.) To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
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同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Make flat.
v. n. Become flat.
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例句/造句/用法:
- When we look at an object several hundred feet away, the muscles change their pull on the lens and flatten it until it is of the proper curvature for the new distance. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Opposition may dissolve, antagonistic cults flatten out to a common culture, almost imperceptibly. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Even though the muscles of accommodation do their best to pull out and flatten the lens, the rays are not separated sufficiently to focus as far back as the retina. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Will that scar flatten out? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- No one had ever carried the hay away and the four seasons that had passed had flattened the cocks and made the hay worthless. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- This machine, see Fig. 168, receives the dough at A, where it is coated with flour and flattened into a sheet between rolls. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Mr. Dagley himself made a figure in the landscape, carrying a pitchfork and wearing his milking-hat--a very old beaver flattened in front. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened it out on the table. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He flattened it out upon the table, and a cry of triumph burst from his lips. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- It had been stepped on and flattened. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- So she put all that sort of sentiment, once and for ever, in a grave, and filled it up, and flattened it down. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Then a machine was needed and invented to wind the corn-brush with the cord or wire and tie it in a round bunch, preparatory to flattening and sewing it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- She smiled in Robert Jordan's face and put her brown hand up and ran it over her head, flattening the hair which rose again as her hand passed. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Here he is, said he, sitting down and flattening it out upon his knee. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- There was a break in the mountains on the right bank, a flattening-out with a low shore line that I thought must be Cannobio. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- They have the peculiar flattening and thickening which marks the boxing man. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
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