elongate

英 [ˈiːlɒŋɡeɪt]

美 [ɪˈlɔːŋɡeɪt]

v.  (使)变长，伸长; 拉长

现在分词：elongating　第三人称单数：elongates　过去分词：elongated　过去式：elongated　复数：elongates　

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BNC.33998 / COCA.24478

牛津词典

verb

• （使）变长，伸长；拉长
  to become longer; to make sth longer

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG （使）拉长;（使）延长
  If youelongatesomething or if itelongates, you stretch it so that it becomes longer.
  1. 'Mom,' she intoned, elongating the word...
     “妈妈，”她拖长了声音，平静地说道。
  2. Corn is treated when the stalk starts to elongate.
     在玉米秆开始拔节时，给玉米打药。

英英释义

verb

• make long or longer by pulling and stretching
  1. stretch the fabric
  Synonym:stretch

adj

• having notably more length than width
  1. an elongate tail tapering to a point
  2. the old man's gaunt and elongated frame
  Synonym:elongated
• (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
  Synonym:linear

双语例句

• Rigid spirally curved elongate bacteria.
  延长细菌，质硬，螺旋曲线状。
• Large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long sail-like dorsal fin.
  细长的大型海生无鳞鱼，有尖牙和船帆形的长背鳍。
• Small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs.
  小型蜈蚣，体形较长，生活于土壤中或石头下，有30多对腿。
• Flesh of eel; elongate fatty-fleshed fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels usually smoked or pickled.
  鳗鱼的肉；在欧洲和美洲淡水中发现的含脂肪多的长条鱼；大鳗鱼通常烟熏或腌渍。
• Elongate freshwater COD of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth.
  北欧和北美长身淡水鳕，嘴部周围有鱼须。
• Elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes.
  细长扁平有点象鳗的鱼。
• Wear wide-leg trousers to elongate your frame.
  穿宽腿裤可以拉长你的身体框架。
• Small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines.
  北部海洋浅水中细长的小鱼；完全由刺组成背鳍。
• Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters.
  细长的欧洲水面生食肉鱼，颚部长并有牙齿；沿海水域颇多。
• Fern with elongate silvery outgrowths enclosing the developing spores. ( botany) of or relating to ascospores.
  包围孢子生长的一种蕨类植物。（植物学）属于或与囊孢子有关。