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

• 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 road straightens out after a few miles.
  这路几英里后便直了。
• 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 fickle, unsteady mind, so hard to guard, so hard to control the wise man straightens, as the fletcher the arrow.
  动摇的、轻燥的心，难防护、难抑制；智者（实）行正值，如矢师矫正箭直。
• The quadriceps at the front of the thigh straightens the knee.
  大腿前侧的股四头肌使膝关节伸直。
• If you feel wronged, you will feel relieved after you straightens out your thinking.
  有些委屈，受过了想通了也就释然了；
• 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。
• You should be able to see him once it straightens out.
  你马上就可以在前方看到它了。
• 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 road straightens up at the bottom of the hill.
  那条路到了山脚就变直了。