Straighten
['streɪt(ə)n] or ['stretn]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make straight or straighter; 'Straighten this post'; 'straighten hair'.
(verb.) make straight.
(verb.) get up from a sitting or slouching position; 'The students straightened when the teacher entered'.
(verb.) straighten up or out; make straight.
編輯:塔比瑟--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
(v. t.) To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account.
(v. t.) A variant of Straiten.
整理:康拉德
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Make straight.
埃塞尔手打
例句/造句/用法:
- Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Another lamp, she cried to the retreating servant, while Janey bent over to straighten her mother's cap. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- To these he next added a revolving reel, that would lift any grain that had fallen and straighten it, and a platform to catch the grain as it was cut and fell. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Then she knelt down again to straighten it and roll it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It's grand fun and will straighten you up capitally. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Straighten out the legs, I said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to straighten it? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Although the cotton is now a white, soft, clean, downy sheet, still the fibres cross each other in every direction, and they require to be straightened and laid parallel before the spinning. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I thought I'd jis look over sis's things, and get 'em straightened up. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He straightened himself then, and I saw that what he held in his hand was a sort of gun, with a curiously misshapen butt. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- He straightened up. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The Count Greffi straightened up when I came toward the table and walked toward me. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I straightened it out afterwards. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- In connection with the cards, combers and strippers are used to assist in further cleaning and straightening the fibre, which is finally removed from the cards and the combs by the doffer. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Care at this stage reduces the necessity for straightening later. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- When that person discloses, said Mr. Jaggers, straightening himself, you and that person will settle your own affairs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- To Canada, said he, straightening himself up; and when I'm there, I'll buy you; that's all the hope that's left us. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I suppose there's no need to, in heaven, she said, straightening her loosened braids with a laugh, and bending over the tea-kettle. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The wire is first passed through a series of rapidly revolving, straightening rolls which take out all twists and kinks. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Such distinguished people to know, remarked Sarah, straightening herself in the chair; and on such gratifying terms of equality too! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
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