1 VERB 把…整理好;使端正 If you straighten something, you make it tidy or put it in its proper position. 把…整理好;使端正
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She sipped her coffee and straightened a picture on the wall. [VERB noun]
她抿了口咖啡,然后把墙上的一幅画扶正。
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...tidying, straightening cushions and organising magazines. [VERB noun]
收拾、摆放靠垫和整理杂志
2 VERB 挺直,端正(身体) If you are standing in a relaxed or slightly bent position and then you straighten, you make your back or body straight and upright. 挺直,端正(身体)
Straighten up means the same as
straighten .
straighten up 同 straighten 3 V-ERG (使)变直;(使)变正 If you straighten something, or it straightens, it becomes straight. (使)变直;(使)变正 [Also VERB n PREPOSITION]
Straighten out means the same as
straighten .
straighten out 同 straighten -
No one would dream of straightening out the knobbly spire at Empingham Church.
谁都无法将埃姆平汉教堂疙瘩嶙峋的尖顶弄直。
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The road twisted its way up the mountain then straightened out for the last two hundred yards.
路弯弯曲曲地环山而上,在最后的 200 码变得平直。
Phrasal verbs: - straighten outstraighten up
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