英语释义

1. to make flat: such as

2. to make level or smooth

3. to knock down also to defeat decisively

4. to make dull or uninspired —often used with out

5. to make lusterless
flatten paint

6. to stabilize especially at a lower level

7. to become flat or flatter: such as

8. to become dull or spiritless

9. to extend in or into a flat position or form

10. to become uniform or stabilized often at a new lower level —usually used with out

11. to make (something) flat or flatter

12. to become flat or flatter

13. to knock down (something or someone)

14. to make or become flat She flattened herself against the wall.

片语

bend flattening河曲变缓

D flattening使变平

horizon flattening[地物]

curve flattening曲线平整

stretch flattening拉伸矫直

flattening kiln摊平炉

Flattening agent整平剂

flattening machine矫直机

英汉例句

• in 1988 canada reformed its tax system, flattening the rate structure and cutting top rates.

  1988年加拿大实行税制改革，稳定了税率结构降低了最高税率。

• but the federal reserve had already started raising short-term interest rates, flattening the yield curve, the difference between short and long rates.

  但是，美联储已经开始提高短期利率，使收益曲线变得扁平，收益曲线即长短期利率之间的利差。

• but flattening them out makes the individual fascicles accessible, like the parallel wires in old computer cables, says dr tyler.

  但是把股骨神经变成扁平状就可以接近单独的神经束了，就像是旧式电脑电缆里的并行线路一样，tyler博士说。

• it sounds simple today, but it was revolutionary and signalled the initial tectonic rumblings of a flattening earth.

  这个想法今天听起来很简单，但在当时是革命性的理念，昭示着扁平化的世界到来之际的结构性巨变。

• the flattening of barack obama「s complex racial background shouldn」t have been surprising.

  奥巴马复杂的扁平式的种族背景并不令人感到意外，许多多种族混合的历史人物带有种族特征的某方面都有所减少，或自行消失了。

• social networking is also flattening organizations by distributing access to information.

  社交网络通过散布获取信息的渠道使机构扁平化。

• contrary to many predictions, the flattening of the world has not flattened unique cultural and national characteristics, or the idiosyncratic preferences of customers.

  和很多人的预计相反，世界虽然变得平坦，但并没有抹去独特的文化和民族属性，或是客户的特殊偏好。

• mr tusk’s government has done well in flattening taxes—but poland still scores shamefully badly in the world bank’s ranking of ease of paying them, at 121st place, behind russia.

  塔克斯政府在降低税负方面卓有成效，但波兰在世界银行轻松还款的排名中仍然居于可耻落后的121位，落后于俄罗斯。

• it has no patagium, but glides from the treetops by flattening its body out to maximizesurface area.

  它没有翼膜，但可以通过伸直身体来扩大体表面积跳出去在树顶间滑翔。

• before the flattening of the world, we had to do a good bit of traveling to know our global neighbors and understand their culture.

  在这个世界变得扁平之前，我们应该去我们的世界邻国旅行，了解他们的文化。

• the gao tape, for instance, doesn’t name the companies its fake callers are consulting. the result is a flattening effect that conflates all the companies with each other.

  比方说，gao在磁带中没有说出那些假冒致电者所咨询的公司的名称，其结果是给所有的这些公司带来了一次拉平效应，让它们统统被混为一谈。

• the projections suggest a flattening off and then a slight decline in the foreseeable future.

  在可预见的未来，人口预期是维持平缓水平然后缓慢下降。

• computers think for us, flattening our intelligence.

  计算机替我们思考，压平我们的智能。

• the tree itself is represented by flattening it in prefix order.

  树本身是按照前缀顺序将调试信息扁平化的一种表示方法。

• he was able to accomplish such an industry-changing endeavor by changing orbitz’ culture, flattening the organization, and, as he says, 「making it leaner, faster and behaving more like a startup.」

  他通过改变orbitz的企业文化，让内部组织结构变得更加扁平，从而完成了如此一项行业性变革，他表示要「让企业更精简、反应更迅速，运作起来就像是一家新的企业一样。」

• the main health benefit of proactive school closure comes from slowing down the spread of an outbreak within a given area and thus flattening the peak of infections.

  积极主动地关闭学校在健康方面带来的主要益处是减缓某一特定区域内的疫情传播速度，从而使感染高峰变得平缓。

• not only are they snakes, but they can 「fly」 -- flinging themselves off their perches, flattening their bodies, and gliding from tree to tree or to the ground.

  它们不仅仅是简简单单的蛇，它们还能「飞」——将它们自己从栖木上甩出来，撑平自己的身体，滑翔于树与树之间、树与地之间。

相似词

even平坦的；平稳的；相等的；均衡的；偶数的；同样大小的；平分的；平局的；镇静的

level使同等；对準；弄平

plane平的；平面的

smooth平滑部分；一块平地

smoothen使平滑，使平和；使平息

相反词

rough艰苦；高低不平的地面；未经加工的材料；粗糙的部分

roughen使粗糙