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
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