flatten

英 [ˈflætn]

美 [ˈflætn]

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

过去分词：flattened　过去式：flattened　现在分词：flattening　第三人称单数：flattens　

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同义词辨析

flattenlevelsmooth out【导航词义：弄平】

短语动词

短语用例

flatten sth/yourself against/on sb/sth

• 使平贴；把…紧贴着
  to press sth/your body against sb/sth
  1. The cookies will flatten slightly while cooking.
     曲奇烤时会略微变平。
  2. These exercises will help to flatten your stomach.
     这些身体锻炼有助腹部变平。
  3. He flattened his hair down with gel.
     他用发胶把头发弄平。

flatten out

• 逐渐变平
  to gradually become completely flat
  1. Our team was flattened this evening!
     今晚我们队被打得落花流水！
• 停止生长；不再长高；停止上升
  to stop growing or going up
  1. He flattened the intruder with a single punch.
     他一拳就把闯入者打倒在地。
  2. I'll flatten you if you do that again!
     你要再那样我就把你揍趴下！

flatten sth↔out

• 使变平
  to make sth completely flat

牛津词典

verb

• （使）变平；把…弄平
  to become or make sth become flat or flatter
  1. The cookies will flatten slightly while cooking.
     曲奇烤时会略微变平。
  2. These exercises will help to flatten your stomach.
     这些身体锻炼有助腹部变平。
  3. He flattened his hair down with gel.
     他用发胶把头发弄平。
• 摧毁，推倒，弄倒（建筑物、树木等）
  to destroy or knock down a building, tree, etc.
  1. Most of the factory was flattened by the explosion.
     工厂的大部分被爆炸夷为平地。
• 轻易击败
  to defeat sb easily in a competition, an argument, etc.
  1. Our team was flattened this evening!
     今晚我们队被打得落花流水！
• 击倒；打倒
  to hit sb very hard so that they fall down
  1. He flattened the intruder with a single punch.
     他一拳就把闯入者打倒在地。
  2. I'll flatten you if you do that again!
     你要再那样我就把你揍趴下！

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。

英英释义

verb

• lower the pitch of (musical notes)
  Synonym:drop
• become flat or flatter
  1. The landscape flattened
  Synonym:flatten out
• make flat or flatter
  1. flatten a road
  2. flatten your stomach with these exercises

双语例句

• Flatten the ends ( of nails and rivets).
  把钉子或铆钉的尖头变平。
• Together, these and scores more bring diversity and flatten old geographical hierarchies.
  上述收藏家以及更多其他人带来了多样性，并打破了旧式的地理格局。
• He flattened himself against a brick wall as I passed.
  他紧贴一面砖墙站着好让我通过。
• '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。”
• The pressure of the atmosphere on the earth could flatten animal cells.
  地球上的大气压可能会把动物细胞压瘪。
• Grass will flatten in a small radius around you if you go prone.
  如果你匍匐前进的话，你身周范围内的草会被你压平。
• Flatten chicken to1cm thickness.
  把鸡肉切1厘米厚的片。
• For example if a rubber ball bounces and hits the ground it will tend to flatten when it hits.
  例如如果一个橡胶球弹跳并击打在地面时，它将趋向压平它当它击在地面时。
• This is the stock linguistics gem, modified to flatten out the directory structure.
  这是一个库存linguisticsgem，被修改来扁平化目录结构。
• We can flatten out a piece of metal by hammering it.
  我们可以用锤子把一块金属敲平。