A gust of wind swept over the parapet and Dr. Kerry teetered, clutching the wall. I stepped up onto the ridge so he could flatten himself against the buttress. He stared at me, waiting for an explanation.

一阵狂风扫过护栏，克里博士摇晃起来，抓住墙壁不放。我走上脊，好让他靠在扶壁上。他盯着我，等着我。

Collapsed bridges, flattened apartment blocks and people trapped inside.

桥梁倒塌，多处房被夷为平地，大量民众被困。

Harry nervously flattened his fringe down again.

不安地将前额的头发又拉了下来。

In danger of being speared on the end of an umbrella by a bearded giant, Uncle Vernon's courage failed again; he flattened himself against the wall and fell silent.

弗农姨父怕被这个大胡子巨人的伞头戳伤，又泄气了，紧贴着墙不再说话了。

When Hurricane Ida made landfall in southern Louisiana on Sunday and then moved inland, it ripped roofs off homes and buildings, flooded houses and roads, flattened trees, and knocked power lines all over the place.

飓风“艾达”周日在路易斯安那南部登陆后，继续向内陆移动，它撕裂了房和建筑物的顶，淹没了房和道路，压平了树木，并把电线弄得到处都是。

If such an earthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi valley. That, he figured, should get his classmates' attention.

如果这种地震在当下发生，从洛矶山脉到大西洋，你都能感觉到它，而且密西西比河附近的村庄都会被夷为平地。他认为这样会引起学生们的注意。

The curve of the increase is continuing to flatten.

上升的曲线已经趋缓。

And one of the problems with the stereotypes is that people eventually become flattened.

这种刻板印象的问题之一是，人们最终会变得没精打采。

" Good work, everyone, I think we'll flatten Slytherin, " he said bracingly, and the Chasers and Beaters left the changing room looking reasonably happy with themselves.

“干得不错，各位，我想我们会打倒斯莱特林，”他鼓舞地说着，更衣室里的追球手和击球手们看上去对他们自己也很高兴。

When you see the top of a storm cloud flattening out into the classic anvil shape, you are looking at the boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere.

当你看到一片雷雨云的顶端扩展成典型的砧形，你是在看着对流层和平疏层的交界之处。

And you can hear it flatten and then invert.

你可以到它变平坦，然后颠倒了。

It's the spread between short and long term Treasury rates and it's flattening.

收益率曲线是短期率和长期率的差额，这种差额正在趋于平缓。

It can quickly flatten and submerge itself in sand and it can deter larger animals using it's eyes.

它可以快速放气然后钻到沙中，并且可以用眼睛威慑更大的动物。

And a steel spatula to flatten them out.

用钢铲把肉球压扁。

Pound it on the counter a few times to flatten it out.

在柜台上敲几下，将其震平。

Flatten the curve means that if we practice social distancing we can control the spread of the virus over time, keeping hospitals from being overwhelmed and saving lives.

平缓曲线代表如果我们实施社交距离，就可以控制病毒的传播，让医院不会过于忙碌，进而拯救人命。

It worked hard to flatten the curve.

新加坡努力让感染人数曲线变得平缓。

Many communities on Grand Bahama and Abaco islands have been flattened and left in rubble.

大巴马岛和阿巴科群岛上一些社群的房已经被夷为平地，只剩一堆碎石。

He could see their wide, flattened, shovel-pointed heads now and their white-tipped wide pectoral fins.

他这时看得见它们那又宽又扁的铲子形的头，和尖端呈白色的宽阔的胸鳍。

But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me.

但是，如果只讲述负面的故事，我的经历不会很立体，许多其它塑造我的故事就被忽略了。