| 词汇 | smooth something ↔ out |
| 释义 | smooth something ↔ outsmooth something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v a) to make something such as paper or cloth flat by moving your hands across it 〔用手〕弄平，把…弄平整 They smoothed out the map on the table. 他们在桌上摊平地图。 Smooth out all the wrinkles. 把所有的皱褶弄平整。 b) to make something happen in an even regular way 缓和，平息 Sometimes central banks intervene to smooth out price fluctuations. 有时候中央银行会出面干预以平息物价波动。 c) to get rid of problems or difficulties 消除，摆脱〔问题或困难〕 Examples from the Corpus smooth out• Some one brings out a tractor and pulls a roller up and down the road, smoothing it out.• Then, with a visible change of heart, she carefully smoothed it out again.• I smoothed it out and read: I had a dream that was not quite a dream.• Finally, Albers would have the students unfold the paper, smooth it out, and return it to its original state.• She plopped down too much mortar, smoothed it out and set a brick on it.• He looked carefully for antagonisms and smoothed them out as unobtrusively as possible.• He offered, in one of his kinder moods, to smooth these out for her.• He laughed, smoothing breadcrumbs out of his mustache and brushing them off his coat and lap. → smooth something ↔ out at smooth2(3) |
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