爱丽丝历险记 · 学单词

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Alice uses both hands to straighten a crooked painting of a teapot hanging on the parlor wall

straighten

v. /ˈstreɪtn/ B2

弄直;使变直

To make something straight or become straight.

仙境例句

Bill's fall had bent the iron gate, so the Mouse straightened it with his hammer.

蜥蜴比尔摔下来时把铁门砸弯了,老鼠就用锤子把它敲直。

原著这一句

The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.

爱丽丝接住这个可怜的小家伙时,它正像台蒸汽机一样呼哧呼哧地喘着气,身子还不停地蜷缩又伸直,结果在前头那一两分钟里,她光是抱稳它就竭尽全力了。

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