distorts

英 [dɪˈstɔːts]

美 [dɪˈstɔːrts]

v.  使变形; 扭曲; 使失真; 歪曲; 曲解
distort的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 歪曲;扭曲;曲解
  If youdistorta statement, fact, or idea, you report or represent it in an untrue way.
  1. The media distorts reality; categorises people as all good or all bad...
     媒体会歪曲事实，将人说得不是完美无缺就是一无是处。
  2. The minister has said his remarks at the weekend have been distorted.
     部长说他周末的讲话被曲解了。
• V-ERG (使）变形;(使)失真
  If something you can see or hearis distortedordistorts, its appearance or sound is changed so that it seems unclear.
  1. A painter may exaggerate or distort shapes and forms...
     画家可能会对线条和形状进行夸大或扭曲。
  2. His size was persistently distorted by the cartoonists...
     漫画家们总是把他画得变形了。
  3. This caused the sound to distort.
     这导致了声音的失真。

双语例句

• Television distorts our understanding of reality.
  电视节目扭曲了我们对现实的理解。
• The choleric face distorts in a look of puzzlement.
  那张暴躁的脸孔蹙了起来，显得有些迷惑。
• The television habit distorts the sense of time.
  看电视的习惯会歪曲了时间感。
• I think this undoubtedly distorts the real intention of the regional architecture.
  我想这无疑曲解了地域性建筑的本意。
• It distorts the quality cost, do not know its potential impact.
  它歪曲了质量成本，没有搞清楚其潜在的影响。
• As such, it distorts their functioning, the price discovery process and the allocation of capital.
  结果将使市场功能、价格发现机制和资本分配遭到严重扭曲。
• It distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift, and crushes the struggling young and the fixed-income elderly alike.
  它扭曲了我们的经济决策，惩罚了节俭，粉碎了奋斗的年轻人和固定收入的老人们等的梦想。
• Since any subsidy distorts decisions towards greater profligacy, government debt will probably swell, possibly to unsustainable levels.
  由于任何补贴都可能扭曲政府决策，令其更加倾向于挥霍，政府债务可能会膨胀，乃至上升至不可持续的水平。
• The journalistic uncertainty principle obtains: the act of observation distorts what is being observed.
  新闻工作不确定法则中：观察的行为会扭曲被观察的事物。
• The poor should not be ignored just because helping them distorts work incentives.
  正因为帮助他们曲解工作动机所以穷人不应该被忽视。