distort
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /dɪsˈtɔːt/
美 /dɪsˈtoɹt/|/dɪsˈtoːt/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
— This she did with the utmost politeness, though cold by race, and through her politeness ran a sense of what the Teutons call Duty, which would once have repelled me; but I have wandered over a great part of the world and I know it now to be a distorted kind of virtue.
- To become misshapen.
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To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
— In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
形容词 adj.
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Distorted; misshapen.
— Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
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