straighten out
英 [ˈstreɪtn aʊt]
美 [ˈstreɪtn aʊt]
(使)变直; (使)变正; 理清,整顿(混乱的局面)
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 理清,整顿(混乱的局面)
If youstraighten outa confused situation, you succeed in getting it organized and tidied up.- He would make an appointment with him to straighten out a couple of things...
他将和他约个时间把几件事情理清楚。 - My sister had come in with her calm common sense and straightened them out.
我姐姐凭着自己的镇定和常识帮着把这些问题都解决了。
- He would make an appointment with him to straighten out a couple of things...
- → see:straighten 3
英英释义
verb
- change for the better
- The lazy student promised to reform
- the habitual cheater finally saw the light
- settle or put right
- we need to iron out our disagreements
- put (things or places) in order
- Tidy up your room!
- make free from confusion or ambiguity
- Could you clarify these remarks?
- Clear up the question of who is at fault
- make straight
- extricate from entanglement
- Can you disentangle the cord?
双语例句
- First of all, we should straighten out their thinking.
首先,思想上要弄通。 - 1: Mark spent a whole morning trying to straighten out the fifty dollar mistake.
这段话说:Mark花了整个上午试图更正五十美元的电费账目错误,但是经过整整四小时的努力还没有眉目。他实在不耐烦了,最后决定不如干脆付款算了。 - You think that'll straighten out your frizzled hair?
你认为那样会弄直你的卷发? - My sister had come in with her calm common sense and straightened them out.
我姐姐凭着自己的镇定和常识帮着把这些问题都解决了。 - That toe never did straighten out and Father talked of it often.
那只脚趾再也没变直过来,父亲经常念叨着这件事。 - I turned around the world, only to straighten out your reflection.
我颠覆全世界,只为摆正你的倒影。 - We have inherited a very confused situation, which we are now trying to straighten out.
我们接过来一个乱摊子,现在我们正在设法清理。 - Straighten out the price, city managers should represent citizens to and gas mining and transportation company negotiations.
理顺价格,城市的管理者应该代表市民去和燃气的开采和运输公司谈判。 - But Mr Chen refused, saying he was in so much pain that he was unable to straighten out his legs.
但是陈先生拒绝了,称他太痛苦了,根本无法伸直自己的脚。 - It will take some years to straighten out the relations between the various economic sectors.
要理顺各种经济关系需要几年时间。