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distorter

/dih-stawrt/US // dɪˈstɔrt //UK // (dɪˈstɔːt) //

歪曲者,扭曲者,扭曲器,歪曲器

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
    • : to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent: to distort the facts.
    • : Electronics. to reproduce or amplify inaccurately by changing the frequencies or unequally changing the delay or amplitude of the components of the output wave.

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Examples

  • The decisions we make about where to live are distorted not just by politics that play down climate risks, but also by expensive subsidies and incentives aimed at defying nature.

  • Earlier studies about digital contact tracing have been widely distorted.

  • Because these new constellations are being deployed in lower orbits, they’re much brighter, leaving behind long bright streaks on the image and sometimes distorting other parts of the data.

  • They take a scientific pose to gain your confidence and then distort the facts to their own purposes.

  • That concept of distorting perception was important, Ginzel said.

  • And would-be collectors like Henry Stephenson continue to distort the cultural record in their hunt for hidden treasures.

  • Saying a word in a different tone can distort or utterly mangle a line.

  • Hollywood would never grossly distort the Civil War or D-Day.

  • Or, they could distort the contents of the bill and attack anyone who disagreed with them as a legal Luddite and hysteric.

  • I have witnessed at first hand how Irving likes to distort things.

  • The temptation to distort facts to make a good story is strong; I have seen it in my connection with the 'Courier.'

  • Shakspere's contemporaries don't imitate Nature, they distort it, give Passion, and no Reason.

  • Wherefore then should grief sadden and distort such blythe, such jocund, features as mine?

  • What he wants is not an enlightened and truthful agent, but a man who will distort the truth to suit his prejudices.

  • Such a wire must be a little slack, or, as illustrated above, it will distort the framework.