dent
n. 凹痕; 削減,削弱
v. 使凹陷; 削減; 挫傷
If you dent the surface of something, you make a hollow area in it by hitting or pressing it.
A great chunk of loose kerbing smashed into my left-front wheel, bursting the tyre and denting the rim...
我車子的左前輪撞在一大塊鬆動的路緣石上,導致車胎爆裂、輪輞凹陷。
Its brass feet dented the carpet's thick pile.
其黃銅支腳把厚絨地毯壓出了印。
A dent is a hollow in the surface of something which has been caused by hitting or pressing it.
There was a dent in the car which hadn't been there before.
車上出現了一處以前沒有的凹痕。
If something dents your ideas or your pride, it makes you realize that your ideas are wrong, or that you are not as good or successful as you thought.
This has not dented the City's enthusiasm for the company.
這並沒有減弱倫敦金融界對這個公司的熱情。
After a while that sort of thing dents your confidence.
那種事情過上一段時間就會挫傷信心。
If one thing makes a dent in another, it reduces it by a large amount.
The commission had barely begun to make a dent in the problem...
委員會幾乎還沒有在這個問題上取得任何進展。
I hated to put any dents in his enthusiasm, but I was trying to be realistic.
我不想打擊他的熱情,只是試圖現實一些。
1. an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening);
2. a depression scratched or carved into a surface
3. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
1. make a depression into;
NICK: Surface discontinuity, a depression or dent caused by impact.
刻痕: 表面中斷, 由碰撞引起的下陷或凹痕.
So selling Alcon, a highly profitable business, will not make much of a dent.
所以出售愛爾康, 一筆高利潤的買賣, 不會導致負面的重大影響.
Similarly, a stronger yuan would do little to dent America's trade deficit.
與此類似的是, 更為強勁的(民幣)對削減美國的貿易逆差不會起什麼作用.
The embarrassing stories about his past made quite a dent in his reputation.
關於他過去的令人難堪的傳說損壞了他的名譽.
Diagnosed with prostate career in 1991, Dent began his journey to death several weeks ago.
1991年鄧特經診斷患有前列腺癌,數週後他開始了死亡之旅.