| 释义 |
flatten out1(Of an increasing quantity or rate) show a less marked rise; slow down: over the last two years our sales increase has flattened out...- Despite an ongoing economic boom, Portland's housing cost increases flattened out after 1995, and now roughly match the rate of inflation.
- On the other hand, the survey report will point out that the recent fall in unemployment is slowing, effectively flattening out over the past three months.
- The long ‘plateau’ period where this rise in prosecutions flattened out is more difficult to explain.
2Make an aircraft fly horizontally after a dive or climb: he flattened out and made a fine three-point landing...- People out fishing reported seeing the aircraft flying straight and level, then entering a spiral dive before flattening out momentarily.
- The Ju 88 went into a steep, jinking dive with the rear gunner firing at the other members of his Section who all attacked, until the Ju 88 flattened out and crash-landed at high speed.
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