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

• I imagine that a rope is pulling the top of my head toward the sky, and the rest of my body straightens accordingly.
  一根绳子拴住我的头拉向天空，而身体的其他部分则顺着垂下来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• How can cause the cooperation education to receive social the approval, How straightens out cooperation education all quarters the relations, How founds well conforms to the Shanghai local engineering university actual situation cooperation education pattern, all becomes suspends in front of us the question.
  如何能使合作教育受到社会的认可，如何理顺合作教育各方的关系，如何更好地创建符合上海地方高等学校实际情况的合作教育模式，都成为摆在我们面前的问题。
• 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。
• 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？）
• 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。
• 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。
• The road straightens up at the bottom of the hill.
  那条路到了山脚就变直了。