| 英语单词 | distortion |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [dɪ'stɔːʃn] 美 [dɪ'stɔːʃn] |
| 中文释义 | n.扭曲;变形;曲解 |
| 英语例句 | (1) What is the cause of the great distortion upon Earth? (2) It's in your soul that the true distortion lies. (3) She has distortion of the right ankle. (4) But history tolerates no distortion. (5) The newspapers exclaimed against the distortion of truth. (6) His report was attacked as a gross distortion of the truth. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 导致地球巨大扭曲的原因到底是什么? (2) 真正扭曲的是你的灵魂。 (3) 她的右踝部有点变形。 (4) 然而历史事实不容歪曲。 (5) 报界强烈谴责对真相的歪曲。 (6) 他的报告被攻击为严重歪曲事实。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A distortion is a change, twist, or exaggeration that makes something appear different from the way it really is. You can distort an image, a thought, or even an idea. To say that I never take out the garbage is a distortion of the facts. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The heat from the highway creates a distortion in the way objects in the distance appear: They wiggle and dance. The heat creates a wavy distortion in the air that shakes up the image of the things beyond it. Things are the way they are: to change them is to distort them or to create a distortion. Some guitar players prefer distortion: they plug their instrument into amps and pedals that twist and stretch the sound so much that you might not even recognize its source as a guitar. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-VAR 可变名词]歪曲;曲解 Distortion is the changing of something into something that is not true or not acceptable. [usu with supp] [disapproval]
2 [N-VAR 可变名词]失真;变形 Distortion is the changing of the appearance or sound of something in a way that makes it seem strange or unclear.
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