distort
verb /dɪˈstɔːt/
/dɪˈstɔːrt/
动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they distort | /dɪˈstɔːt/ /dɪˈstɔːrt/ |
| he / she / it distorts | /dɪˈstɔːts/ /dɪˈstɔːrts/ |
| past simple distorted | /dɪˈstɔːtɪd/ /dɪˈstɔːrtɪd/ |
| past participle distorted | /dɪˈstɔːtɪd/ /dɪˈstɔːrtɪd/ |
| -ing form distorting | /dɪˈstɔːtɪŋ/ /dɪˈstɔːrtɪŋ/ |
- distort something to change the shape, appearance or sound of something so that it is strange or not clear
使变形；扭曲；使失真 - a fairground mirror that distorts your shape
露天游乐场的哈哈镜 - The loudspeaker seemed to distort his voice.
他的声音从喇叭里传出来好像失真了。
- a fairground mirror that distorts your shape
- distort something to change facts, ideas, etc. so that they are no longer correct or true
歪曲；曲解 - Newspapers are often guilty of distorting the truth.
报章常犯歪曲事实的错误。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- grossly
- seriously
- severely
- …
- Newspapers are often guilty of distorting the truth.
词源late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘twist to one side’): from Latin distort- ‘twisted apart’, from the verb distorquere, from dis- ‘apart’ + torquere ‘to twist’.