请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 flatten out
释义

flatten out

1(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.
See parent entry: flatten
随便看

 

英语词典包含243303条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/3/25 22:44:27