英语词汇“to flatten down”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

6. transitive. To make dull, deprive of attraction, interest, or impressiveness; also to flatten down.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored with [verb (transitive)] > make wearisome or tedious

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1693 W. Freke Sel. Ess. xxxiv. 210 When you gallop over a good Author, you..flatten him, and lose half his Life and Substance.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 204. ⁋5 It flattens the Narration, to say his Excellency in a Case which is common to all Men.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 162 The odiousness of the crime grew at last to be so much flatten'd by the frequent executions.

1820 C. Lamb Let. 25 May (1935) II. 277 That I did not write..was simply that he was to come so soon, & that flattens Letters.

1889 Spectator 14 Dec. 840 When the pilgrims..break out into verse, they..flatten down what had been far more effectively and imaginatively said in prose.

单词	to flatten down
释义	> as lemmas to flatten down 6. transitive. To make dull, deprive of attraction, interest, or impressiveness; also to flatten down. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored with [verb (transitive)] > make wearisome or tedious leadc1430 stale1601 wooden1641 cool1665 flatten1693 mustify1828 woodenize1877 leaden1899 dehydrate1957 1693 W. Freke Sel. Ess. xxxiv. 210 When you gallop over a good Author, you..flatten him, and lose half his Life and Substance. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 204. ⁋5 It flattens the Narration, to say his Excellency in a Case which is common to all Men. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 162 The odiousness of the crime grew at last to be so much flatten'd by the frequent executions. 1820 C. Lamb Let. 25 May (1935) II. 277 That I did not write..was simply that he was to come so soon, & that flattens Letters. 1889 Spectator 14 Dec. 840 When the pilgrims..break out into verse, they..flatten down what had been far more effectively and imaginatively said in prose. extracted from flattenv. < as lemmas
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