| 单词 | distort |
| 释义 | Word family noun distortion adjective distorted verb distort dis·tort /dɪˈstɔːt $ -ɔːrt/ ●○○ AWL verb 1 CHANGE/MAKE something DIFFERENT[intransitive, transitive] to change the appearance, sound, or shape of something so that it is strange or unclear （使）变形，（使）失真；（使）反常 Tall buildings can distort radio signals. 高大的建筑物会使无线电信号失真。2 FALSE[transitive] to report something in a way that is not completely true or correct 歪曲，曲解 His account was badly distorted by the press. 他的话被报界严重歪曲。3 [transitive] to change a situation from the way it would naturally be 扭曲 an expensive subsidy which distorts the market 扰乱市场秩序的高价补贴 —distorted adjective His face was distorted in anger. 他脸都气歪了。 —distortion /dɪˈstɔːʃən $ -ɔːr-/ noun [countable, uncountable] a gross distortion of the facts 对事实的严重歪曲→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusdistort• Funhouse mirrors, which are not flat, cause images to be distorted.• The engram bank becomes severely distorted by painful emotion and the areas of painful emotion be-come severely distorted by physical pain elsewhere.• These incidents were grossly distorted by police witnesses.• Some say that the President has distorted facts in order to win the election.• If the sine wave is distorted, harmonics are generated.• But we can not assume that humans would naturally or inevitably develop such distorted ideas.• For example, the beat can be distorted if the coronary arteries are not wired correctly inside the heart.• But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface, which distorts the analysis.• Journalists were accused of sensationalizing the story and distorting the facts.• A frequent tactic is to try to distort the meaning of words.• Nevertheless, to conceive of parents as utterly static in the child's psychological life is likely to distort the picture grossly.• Newspaper readers are usually given a simplified and often distorted version of events.Origin distort (1400-1500) Latin distortus, past participle of distorquere “to twist out of shape”dis·tort verbChineseSyllable to shape something or change the Corpus of sound, appearance, |
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