flattens

英 [ˈflætnz]

美 [ˈflætnz]

v.  (使)变平; 把…弄平; 摧毁，推倒，弄倒(建筑物、树木等); 轻易击败
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柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)变平;把…弄平
  If youflattensomething or if itflattens, it becomes flat or flatter.
  1. He carefully flattened the wrappers and put them between the leaves of his book...
     他小心翼翼地把包装纸弄平，夹在书页里。
  2. The dog's ears flattened slightly as Cook spoke his name.
     库克叫这只狗的名字时，它的耳朵就会稍稍耷拉一下。
  3. ...the pitiful shacks built of cardboard boxes, corrugated iron sheets and flattened oil drums.
     用硬纸盒、波纹铁皮和压扁的油桶搭起来的简陋棚屋
  4. Flatten outmeans the same asflatten.
     flatten out 同 flatten
  5. The hills flattened out just south of the mountain...
     丘陵就在大山以南变得平坦起来。
  6. We now think prices will flatten out towards the end of this year...
     我们现在认为到今年年底价格会趋于平稳。
  7. Peel off the blackened skin, flatten the pepper out and trim it into edible pieces.
     把发黑的皮削掉，把甜椒压扁，切成可以入口的小块。
• VERB 摧毁，弄倒，夷平(建筑、城镇或植物)
  Toflattensomething such as a building, town, or plant means to destroy it by knocking it down or crushing it.
  1. ...explosives capable of flattening a five-storey building.
     能将一幢 5 层高的楼房夷为平地的炸药
  2. ...bombing raids flattened much of the area.
     空袭将这个地区的大部分都夷为了平地
  3. ...areas of flattened corn.
     玉米割倒了的地方
• VERB 使紧贴;使贴着(以免挡路或被看见)
  If youflattenyourself againstsomething, you press yourself flat against it, for example to avoid getting in the way or being seen.
  1. He flattened himself against a brick wall as I passed.
     他紧贴一面砖墙站着好让我通过。
• VERB 揍倒;打倒
  If youflattensomeone, you make them fall over by hitting them violently.
  1. 'I've never seen a woman flatten someone like that,' said a crew member. 'She knocked him out cold.'
     “我从没见过一个女人那样把人打趴下，”一位机组人员说，“她把他完全打昏了。”
• VERB (在争斗、竞赛或辩论中)击败，打败，战胜
  If youflattensomeone in a fight, contest, or argument, you defeat them completely.
  1. In the squash court his chief aim is to flatten me...
     在壁球场上他的主要目标就是击败我。
  2. A large percentage of these forces had been flattened by the assault.
     这些部队大部分都已经在这次进攻中被击溃。

双语例句

• Love is the feeling that flatters your ego while it flattens your wallet.
  爱，就是使你的自我意识鼓起来，使你的钱包瘪下去的一种感情。
• Returns the value of the second parameter if the value of the first parameter is true, and flattens the source document hierarchy.
  如果第一个参数的值为真，则返回第二个参数的值，并平展源文档层次。
• The hill flattens here.
  这里的山丘变得平缓了。
• After that, the curve flattens out as the colony stops growing.
  之后，随着细菌逐渐停止繁殖，曲线也开始回落。
• Bovine serum albumin form gel pollution layer on the membrane surface and the pollution rate flattens after a rapid change.
  牛血清白蛋白的膜污染速率变化先急后缓，在膜表面形成凝胶污染层。
• There is no doubt that E-mail flattens the hierarchical structure of an organization.
  毫无疑问，电子信函削弱了组织内部的等级结构。
• Religion rounds out the man, literature broadens him, science lengthens him, philosophy flattens him.
  信仰使人率直，文学使他宽广，科学使他延伸，哲学使他平和。
• House values may begin to slide. The graph flattens out gradually after a steep fall.
  房价可能开始逐渐下降了.图表上的曲线突降之后逐渐趋於平稳。
• A similar effect flattens the debris disks around stars and the gaseous disks of spiral galaxies.
  类似的效应也会出现在恒星周围的残馀盘，以及螺旋星系周围的气体圆盘上。
• It also flattens the gain of FRA with a balance gain fiber, and provides the calculation method of the coefficient curve for the balance fiber.
  通过构造增益补偿光纤实现FRA增益平坦化，给出了补偿光纤增益系数曲线的轮廓及计算方法。