flattening

英 [ˈflætnɪŋ]

美 [ˈflætnɪŋ]

v.  (使)变平; 把…弄平; 摧毁，推倒，弄倒(建筑物、树木等); 轻易击败
flatten的现在分词

现在分词：flattening　复数：flattenings　

COCA.36657

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

• I see my slight young mother with metal plates on either side of her head, flattening her dark curls, her heart racing as her skull is enclosed in a high-voltage carapace.
  我仿佛见到了我那年轻瘦小的母亲，在头两侧都戴上了金属板，她黑色的卷发被压平了，她的头颅被裹在高电压的头罩之中，心脏在狂跳。
• But this technological flattening is potentially liberating too.
  但是这种技术带来的扁平化也可能将人解放出来。
• 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。
• Chemical-Mechanical Polish ( CMP)-A process of flattening and polishing wafers that utilizes both chemical removal and mechanical buffing.
  化学-机械抛光（CMP）-平整和抛光晶圆片的工艺，采用化学移除和机械抛光两种方式。
• A ripple-style initial flattening method was presented, which used the center-triangle as the base triangle.
  提出了一种以中心三角片为基三角片的涟漪式初始曲面展开方法。
• Flattening of the right atrial border is also seen in constrictive pericarditis.
  右心房缘变平亦见于缩窄性心包炎。
• In this paper, the effects of the value of the Earth dynamical flattening on rigid Earth nutation amplitudes and the transfer function of non-rigid Earth nutation are discussed.
  探讨了地球动力学扁率值对刚体地球章动振幅和非刚体地球章动转换函数的影响。
• The flattening and swelling are too small to see.
  两极的扁平和赤道的凸出都无法察觉。
• With this new platform for global flattening, the potential for global collaboration skyrocketed.
  随着全球扁平化这一新平台的出现，国际合作的潜力飞速发展。
• Pressing: Flattening folded sections before binding.
  压平：装订前，把折叠的书贴压实平服的操作。