1·People used to think the earth was flat.
人们曾经认为地球是平的。
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2·He was hammering the sheet of copper flat.
他正把铜片锤平。
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3·This portable seat folds flat for easy storage.
这张便携式座椅可折平，便于存放。
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4·People used to believe (that) the earth was flat.
人们一度认为地球是平的。
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5·He took the letter and smoothed it flat on the table.
他接过信，在桌上展平。
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1·The land was flat, giving no scope for defence.
土地非常平坦，无法做防卫之用。
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2·He backed away from the edge, looking all around at the flat horizon.
他从那边上退了回来，环视着平坦的地平线。
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3·Tundra is flat land with very little vegetation.
苔原是平坦的土地，植被稀少。
4·The driver stops the car on a flat platform and gets out.
司机把车停在一个平坦的平台上，然后下了车。
5·I want to sleep under the hood, so a wide flat hood is better.
我想在车篷下睡觉，所以平坦宽敞的车篷会更好。
1·Do you live in a flat or a house?
你住的是公寓还是独立住宅？
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2·We had not been able to gain admittance to the flat.
我们还未能获得进入那所公寓的权利。
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3·They're renting a furnished flat on the third floor.
他们租了四楼一套带家具的公寓。
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4·What does it matter if I use his flat while he's away? What the eye doesn't see...!
我趁他外出时用他的公寓有什么关系呢？反正他又看不见！
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5·How about your flat?
你的公寓怎么样？
1·Knees should be flat.
膝盖应该是平面的。
2·It's still flat.
它仍然是平面。
3·Before the eyes of the stunned, thrilled audience, photographs came to life and moved across a flat screen.
在那些既震惊又兴奋的观众眼前，照片变得生动形象起来，并且在一个平面屏幕上移动。
4·Graphene is a flat sheet of carbon just one atom thick—with the carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice.
石墨烯是一种只有单原子厚度的碳原子平面层——碳原子按蜂窝状晶格排列。
5·Because the surface of the water table is not flat but instead rises and falls with topography, groundwater is affected by gravity in the same fashion as surface water.
由于地下水位不是平面的，而是随着地形起伏的，所以地下水和地表水一样受到重力的影响。
1·She had small feet and hands and a flat, round face.
她有一对小手小脚和一张扁平的圆脸。
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2·Ellen is walking down the drive with a square flat box balanced on one hand.
埃伦正沿着车道走着，一只手上托着一个扁平的方盒子。
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3·The flat character tends to serve mainly as a motivating factor.
扁平的人物往往主要作为一个推动因素。
4·Minor characters are sometimes called, well, just the opposite, "flat".
正好相反，次要角色通常被称为“扁平人物”。
5·The flat character is introduced solely for the purpose of allowing the round character to show off.
引入扁平字符仅是为了突出圆形字符。
1·You should get interested in a stock when its price gets trampled flat by investors stampeding out of it.
你应该在投资者蜂拥逃出、把一只股票的价值踩扁的时候注意到它。
2·But because of these size constraints, little details still had to be addressed, like the feeling of using a flat pen.
但是由于大小的限制，一些小细节仍然需要整改，例如使用一只扁笔的触感。
3·Also known as flat feet, the problem can be remedied by wearing a high heel as these shoes force the foot into an arched position.
众所周知的扁足问题可以通过使用高跟鞋来治疗，因为高跟鞋会强迫脚处于一个拱形的状态。
4·Chewy hand-pulled noodles and wide flat spinach noodles both come doused with vinegar, garlic, and optional chili sauce.
韧性好的拉面和扁宽的菠菜面都会洒上醋和蒜，可以选择性的加上辣酱。
5·Then she saw it was the long flat head of a serpent, and the recollection of the prophecy rushed into her mind.
然后她看到一个又长又扁的蛇头，预言一下子从她的记忆中跳出来。
1·Tiles can be fixed to any surface as long as it's flat, firm and dry.
瓷砖可以固定在任何表面上，只要这些表面是平整、坚固、干燥的。
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2·The flat cut on the antelope's chin shows that its tongue was cut by a very sharp flake.
羚羊下巴上面平整的切痕，显示它的舌头是被非常锋利的片状器具切割的。
3·When pouring molten glass onto the molten tin, the underside of the glass would also be perfectly flat.
当把玻璃液倒在锡液上时，玻璃的底面也会变得完全平整。
4·The torn portion of the canvas had to be gently coaxed back to its flat state, otherwise it would return to the distortion left by the accident.
画布撕裂的部分要小心地恢复到平整的状态，否则它将会恢复到由于事故造成的扭曲的状态。
5·The material typically used for the pages was parchment, which is animal skin that's stretched and dried under tension, so it become s really flat and can be written on.
书页通常使用的材料是羊皮纸，羊皮纸是一种动物的皮肤，其在张力的作用下被拉伸和变干，因此它会变得非常平整，并且你可以在上面写字。
1·Soybean prices are basically flat this year while corn prices are up 25%.
今年玉米的价格上涨了将近25%，而大豆的价格则基本持平。
2·The report finds more than a quarter of the countries experienced flat or falling monthly wages in real terms.
报告发现，超过四分之一的国家实际月工资出现持平或下滑情况。
3·R&D spending relative to sales for the leading technology companies in America, Europe and Japan was either flat or falling between 2002 and 2006, but increased in the three “new” Asian countries.
从2002年到2006年，在欧洲和日本处于领先的一些技术公司，研发经费与销售额的比例要么持平要么下降，而在这三个新兴亚洲国家却是见长。
4·Yields of mankind's two most important crops are now almost flat.
人类的两个最重要的农作物的产量现在几乎持平。
5·Overall satisfaction levels in the study remained about flat compared with 2008 levels, following two years of satisfaction declines.
今年这次研究的整体满意水平与2008年基本持平，前两年客户满意度都在持续下降。
1·The past few days have seemed comparatively flat and empty.
过去的几天似乎比较平淡和无聊。
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2·It is a testimony to Roth's talent that he could not quite bring himself to write a book as dull and flat as his original conception for his novel Everyman seemed to demand.
这是对罗斯才华的证明，他不能接受自己不能完全按照对小说《所有人》的初衷所要求的那样，枯燥而平淡地写书。
3·Sometimes we all expect our birthday to be a grand, joyous occasion and then it turns out quite flat.
有时候，我们都希望我们的生日是一个盛大、快乐的时刻，然后它变得非常平淡。
4·And investors in Shanghai have pushed up shares 24% so far this year, compared to a flat market in Mumbai.
而今年截至现在，上海的投资者已经将股指推高24%，而孟买的股市却表现平淡。
5·A flat character is one who has only one characteristic.
一个平淡的角色一定只能有一种特性。