| 词汇 | flattened |
| 释义 | flattened past simple and past participle offlatten flatten verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈflæt.ən/ us /ˈflæt̬.ən/ flattenverb[I or T] (BECOME LEVEL)C2 to become level or cause something to become level: （使）变平，把…弄平 Several trees were flattened (= knocked down) by the storm.暴风雨把几棵大树刮倒了。 flatten outThe path flattens out (= does not go up so much) as it reaches the top of the hill.到达山顶时，这条小路变得平坦了。 After two short climbs the road flattens. The landscape was flattening out as the canal grew narrower. to stop rising, falling, or changing so quickly, or to make the rate of change slower: Television ad rates have flattened, if not declined slightly. In the last decade we saw smoking rates flatten out and decline. flatten outThe use of a retardant coating on the surface of the powder slows the initial burn rate and flattens out the rate of change. flatten the curve to make the rate of change slower for something that might be shown as a line on a graph, especially to make the increase in the rate of infections slower when a disease is spreading: These public health measures are designed to flatten the curve in the spread of the disease. He was immediately flattened by a single punch to the head. The whole area was flattened in the bombing raid - not a building was left standing. After a few hundred yards, you come to an area where the ground flattens out. That tent is not secure, you know. The first gust of wind will flatten it. A fight broke out and we had to grab Kevin to stop him flattening the other guy. Making things more or less smooth or straight bunch bunch (something) up coarsen coarsening creased crinkle fold folding furl grooming interfold isolator pucker rumple sand sandpaper screw sleek sleek back/down wrinkle You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Keeping and staying the same flattenverb[I or T] (MAKE THINNER)C2 to become level and thinner or to cause something to become level and thinner: （使）变平坦；（使）变薄 Flatten the pastry into a thin disc with your hands.用手把油酥面团压成薄圆片。 The biscuits will flatten out as they cook.烘烤时饼干会变得扁平。 Making things more or less smooth or straight bunch bunch (something) up coarsen coarsening creased crinkle fold folding furl grooming interfold isolator pucker rumple sand sandpaper screw sleek sleek back/down wrinkle Examples of flattenedflattened In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Picks were generally flattened on one side and were used in weaving to lift the warp to create intricate patterns. This should be seen as a shorthand for a 'flattened' type that satisfies the restriction that union types cannot be nested. The ventral surface is flattened, the dorsal arched and angled to the ventral, the anterior and posterior ends being rounded. The space seems flattened and compressed, blurring the distinction between interior and exterior, between close and far away. Surprisingly, however, there was no other epithelial abnormality except in the vicinity of the worm where the epithelium was flattened. It is easy to see that every system (1.1) can be flattened by using additional variables to give a flat system with the same solution. In the female the appendages are simple, flattened, leaf-like structures, densely clothed with hairs and arranged in two pairs (figs. 8 and 10). Most specimens are flattened internal or external moulds, though threedimensional preservation also occurs. The supraacetabular processes of the ilia are flattened and do not curve ventrally in lateral view. The vortices in this regime are non-axisymmetric and flattened by the stratification, their vertical size being roughly equal to half the gap width. The elements differ from those of related taxa in the posteriorly flattened cross section, from the tip to the edge of the basal cone. The seeds are flattened and seedlings are phaneroepigeal with leafy cotyledons. Radial cuts were made in the retina to allow the retina to be flattened. For horizontal preparations, the retina was removed, bisected, flattened, and 10 -12 mm thick frozen sections were cut. Areas of interest were cut from the flattened retinas and re-embedded to allow cutting of cross sections. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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