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

• Nevertheless, roe, while it has its flaws, is still a metric that investors and analysts like to see as it flattens out the sector, allowing them to compare it with other asset classes.
  不过，权益回报率虽然有不足之处，仍是投资者和分析师喜欢关注的一项指标，因为该指标能抹平行业差异，便于与其他资产类别进行比较。
• However, conditions for Asian exporters are likely to become harder this year as the recovery in export demand flattens out.
  然而，随着出口需求复苏趋缓，亚洲出口商今年的状况可能会变得更为艰难。
• When the sample is placed inside, the special gusseted bottom flattens out, allowing the bag to stand up on its own.
  当样本放在里面，特别插角使袋子底部变平，袋子便直立了。
• A large cloud of gas and dust begins to congeal gravitationally, starts rotating, and eventually flattens into an object called a protostellar disk.
  由气体和尘埃构成的巨大云团在引力的作用下开始凝缩，并且开始旋转，最终变平成为平面状物体，这种物体被称为原恒星盘。
• The graph flattens out gradually after a steep fall.
  图表上的曲线突降之后逐渐趋於平稳。
• The color of the body is gray, same as the color of rock, and it often flattens itself against the rock for camouflage.
  它的身体的灰色跟石头有河流中的色好像一样。然后它常常在石头上紧贴着，因为拟态。
• 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。
• In both cases, you see a lot of long-running objects on the heap, but the number flattens out once Geronimo is completely started.
  在这两种情况下，您都会在堆上看到许多长时间运行的对象，但是一旦Geronimo完全启动，这个数量将趋于平缓。
• Throughput flattens out as CPU utilization approaches 100 percent, as expected.
  正如预期的，随着CPU利用率接近100%，吞吐量曲线逐渐变平。
• The land flattens out near the coast. The ground levels off beyond the woods.
  海岸附近地势变得很平坦.过了树林，地面就平坦起来了。