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

• The transition almost has the character of a knee on the curve. After twisting for several miles, the road straightens out.
  这变化差不多使曲线上有了一个转折。经过几英里的迂回曲折之后，路面变直了。
• The road straightens out after a few miles.
  这路几英里后便直了。
• The former statically explores the representations and reasons of modernity dissimilation from the macro perspective of aesthetic game, whereas the latter dynamically straightens out the dissimilation history from the simple, classical to the sentimental, modern from the standpoint of the relationship between man and nature.
  前者从审美游戏的宏观角度去静态考察现代性异化的表现及其原因，后者从人与自然的动态审美关系方面去梳理从素朴到感伤、从古典到现代的异化历史。
• After twisting for several miles, the road straightens out.
  经过几英里的迂回曲折之后，路面变直了。
• 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。
• The fiscal management system of tax distribution system preliminarily straightens out allocations relationship of fiscal resources between central and local governments, but the allocation framework among governments under provincial level is not yet complete.
  分税制财政管理体制，虽然初步理顺了中央与地方的财力分配关系，然而省以下政府间财力分配框架并不完善。
• You should be able to see him once it straightens out.
  你马上就可以在前方看到它了。
• 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？）
• The first and the second part: Straightens out the concept of the Chinese Country Novels, sketches the historical trace of its development, provides historical background and reference for discussing the Chinese Country Novels in 1990s.
  第一、二部分：梳理中国乡土小说概念，简述中国乡土小说发展的历史轨迹，为论述90年代乡土小说提供历史背景和参照。
• They are the holders of water right in different levels, who are all mobilized by the introduction of the market mechanism which also solves the problem of subject vacancy among asset owners and straightens out the property relations.
  市场机制的引入，解决了资产所有者主体缺位问题，理顺了产权关系。