deform: may imply a changing of shape, appearance, character, or nature through stress, injury, or some accident of growth: relentless winds ~ed the pines into bizarre shapes.   accident事故强调意外，accident of growth意外的生长即赘生物


distort: implies a wrenching from the natural, normal, or true shape, form, direction: the odd camera angle ~s his face in the photograph.  （wrench猛扭猛拉，突然地扭拧a sudden violent twist or pull，如he wrenched the book from her hands他从她的手中把书拧抢了过来，另外wrench表示扳手扳钳，如an adjustable wrench活动板手，如he pulled the handle off with a wrench中的wrench可以有两种含义 1、动词的名词 2、扳手，但翻译都是他把把手拧开了）


contort: suggests an extreme distortion that is grotesque or painful: a degenerative bone disease had painfully ~ed the child's body.  (grotesque丑陋奇形怪状=ugly in a sinister or tragical way，如grotesque statues形状怪异的雕像，如they tried to avoid looking at his grotesque face and his crippled body他们尽量不去看他那张奇丑无比的脸和残疾的身体)    退化性骨病


warp: indicates an uneven shrinking that bends or twists parts out of a flat plane: ~ed floorboards.


deform变形: 指由于受压力受伤赘生物而改变了形状外观等，distort畸形扭曲: 指用力拧拉，使形状外观方向等变得不正常自然真实，contort畸形扭曲: 表示极度畸形扭曲，使人丑陋痛苦， warp翘起: 指表面收缩不均，导致部分平面弯曲旋转翘起


记忆方法: 1）首字母DDCW大的错误<==畸形

         2）畸形的意思是被扭拧而损坏mean to mar or spoil by or as if by twisting.  mar和spoil都是破坏的意思，mar严重破坏，spoil表示惯坏孩子食品变质让人扫兴等，语气较弱       twist扭拧to exert a force that has a spiral effect