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

• Our tax code discourages work and entrepreneurship, saving and investment, and distorts the allocation of capital.
  美国的税收规则挫败了人们在工作与创业、储蓄与投资方面的积极性，并扭曲了资本分配。
• They do not need global finance to prosper but global finance distorts their economy and politics.
  它们不需要全球金融就能实现繁荣，而全球金融反而扭曲了它们的经济和政治。
• It distorts competition, allows excessive risk-taking and imposes wholly unacceptable burdens on the public.
  这会扭曲市场竞争，允许银行过度承担风险，将完全无法接受的负担强加给公众。
• 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。
• It distorts the natural formation of trends.
  它扭曲了自然的趋势。
• More important, it also distorts US foreign policy as a dangerous merger takes place between intelligence and military capabilities.
  更重要的是，它还扭曲了美国的外交政策情报与军事能力发生了危险的融合。
• 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 first one distorts our baby, and the other two display a small excerpt from the picture.
  第一个扭曲了我们的孩子，另外两个显示，从图片的小摘录。
• It obscures information and so distorts behaviour.
  它让信息模糊，让行为失真。
• 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。