straightens

英 [ˈstreɪtnz]

美 [ˈstreɪtnz]

v.  (使)变直，变正; 挺直，端正(身体)
straighten的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 把…整理好;使端正
  If youstraightensomething, you make it tidy or put it in its proper position.
  1. She sipped her coffee and straightened a picture on the wall.
     她抿了口咖啡，然后把墙上的一幅画扶正。
  2. ...tidying, straightening cushions and organising magazines.
     收拾、摆放靠垫和整理杂志
• VERB 挺直，端正(身体)
  If you are standing in a relaxed or slightly bent position and then youstraighten, you make your back or body straight and upright.
  1. The three men straightened and stood waiting.
     3 个男人挺直身体，站着等候。
  2. Straighten upmeans the same asstraighten.
     straighten up 同 straighten
  3. He straightened up and slipped his hands in his pockets.
     他挺直身子，把手插进口袋里。
• V-ERG (使)变直;(使)变正
  If youstraightensomething, or itstraightens, it becomes straight.
  1. Straighten both legs until they are fully extended...
     挺直双腿直至完全伸展开。
  2. The road straightened and we were on a plateau.
     路变直了，我们驶上了高原。
  3. Straighten outmeans the same asstraighten.
     straighten out 同 straighten
  4. No one would dream of straightening out the knobbly spire at Empingham Church...
     谁都无法将埃姆平汉教堂疙瘩嶙峋的尖顶弄直。
  5. The road twisted its way up the mountain then straightened out for the last two hundred yards.
     路弯弯曲曲地环山而上，在最后的 200 码变得平直。

双语例句

• As a high velocity air jet, it supports and straightens the primary air stream and thus prevents slagging on the furnace walls.
  作为一股高速射流，它对一次风气流起支撑作用，以防止炉壁结渣现象的发生。
• This theory integrates the academic resources of sociological criticism, structural doctrine criticism and psychoanalysis criticism, and straightens out the "internal study" with "external study" in literature. It is a sociological criticism theory which integrates the "experience" and "criticize".
  齐马提出的文本批评理论，它整合了社会学批评、结构主义批评以及精神分析批评的学术资源，打通了文学的内部研究与外部研究，是一种集经验和批判于一体的社会学批评理论。
• The quadriceps straightens the knee.
  股四头肌保持膝盖伸直。
• The biceps muscle of the thigh bends the leg; the quadriceps straightens it.
  两足动物股部的肌肉使腿弯曲，四头肌则将腿拉直。
• The road straightens up at the bottom of the hill.
  那条路到了山脚就变直了。
• You've been getting some bad advice from girlfriends over these past few weeks, thanks to Mercury retrograde, but the communication planet straightens out on Friday.
  你已经在女性朋友哪里得到坏消息好几星期了，因为水逆。但在星期五就顺行了。（预示好的消息？）
• Through investigating and researching the status quo of debt crisis, this study straightens out the general situation of the universities 'debt crisis in Jiangxi Province.
  本研究聚焦于江西省普通高校债务危机这一问题，通过对其进行调查和研究，摸清江西省普通高校债务的总体情况。
• It pivots around and straightens as it extends its mechanical hand.
  机器人臂绕枢轴转动并伸直，好像伸出它的机械手。
• The work straightens out the work responsibilities of various departments, and strengthens their communication and support mutually, so that the standards of company's overall human resources supervisory work are reached to lay gradually the base for the company strategic realization.
  通过招聘体系的设计分清公司各部门的工作职责，加强他们之间的相互沟通和支持，从而推动并逐步规范公司的整体人力资源管理工作，为公司战略目标的实现做出贡献。
• You should be able to see him once it straightens out.
  你马上就可以在前方看到它了。