flatness
n. 平面; 實音
A flat is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor and part of a larger building. A flat usually includes a kitchen and bathroom.
Sara lives with her husband and children in a flat in central London...
薩拉和丈夫還有孩子們住在倫敦中心城區的一間公寓裡。
It started a fire in a block of flats...
大火是從一幢公寓大樓燒起的。
Something that is flat is level, smooth, or even, rather than sloping, curved, or uneven.
Tiles can be fixed to any surface as long as it's flat, firm and dry...
只要表面平整、堅固而且乾燥,瓷磚就可以貼住。
After a moment his right hand moved across the cloth, smoothing it flat...
過了一會兒,他用右手把布抹平。
Flat means horizontal and not upright.
Two men near him threw themselves flat...
他身旁的兩個男人直挺挺趴倒在地上。
As heartburn is usually worse when you're lying down in bed, you should avoid lying flat.
通常躺著的時候胃灼熱會更加厲害,所以應當避免平臥。
A flat object is not very tall or deep in relation to its length and width.
Ellen is walking down the drive with a square flat box balanced on one hand.
埃倫正一手託著一個方形的扁盒子沿私人車道走著。
Flat land is level, with no high hills or other raised parts.
To the north lie the flat and fertile farmlands of the Solway plain...
北邊是索爾韋平原平坦而肥沃的農田。
The landscape became wider, flatter and very scenic...
地勢變得更開闊、更平整,風景十分優美。
A low flat area of uncultivated land, especially an area where the ground is soft and wet, can be referred to as flats or a flat .
The salt marshes and mud flats attract large numbers of waterfowl.
鹽鹼地和泥灘吸引了大量水鳥。
You can refer to one of the broad flat surfaces of an object as the flat of that object.
He slammed the counter with the flat of his hand.
他用手掌使勁拍打著櫃檯。
...eight cloves of garlic crushed with the flat of a knife.
用刀面拍碎的 8 粒蒜瓣
Flat shoes have no heels or very low heels.
People wear slacks, sweaters, flat shoes, and all manner of casual attire for travel.
人們穿著寬鬆的長褲、運動衫、平底鞋和各式適合旅行的休閒服裝。
A flat tyre, ball, or balloon does not have enough air in it.
A flat is a tyre that does not have enough air in it.
Then, after I finally got back on the highway, I developed a flat.
後來,我終於回到公路上後,車胎又癟了。
A drink that is flat is no longer fizzy.
Could this really stop the champagne from going flat?
這真的能讓香檳不走氣嗎?
A flat battery has lost some or all of its electrical charge.
His car alarm had been going off for two days and, as a result, the battery was flat.
他的汽車報警器連著響了兩天,結果電池耗沒電了。
If you have flat feet, the arches of your feet are too low.
The condition of flat feet runs in families.
平足會在家族中遺傳。
A flat denial or refusal is definite and firm, and is unlikely to be changed.
The Foreign Ministry has issued a flat denial of any involvement...
外交部已經堅決否認參與過此事。
She is likely to give you a flat refusal.
她很可能會斷然拒絕你。
If you say that something happened, for example, in ten seconds flat or ten minutes flat, you are emphasizing that it happened surprisingly quickly and only took ten seconds or ten minutes.
You're sitting behind an engine that'll move you from 0 to 60mph in six seconds flat...
您面前的引擎,可以在短短 6 秒鐘內速度從 0 提升至每小時 60 英里。
I had it all explained to me in two minutes flat.
短短兩分鐘內,我讓人把一切都給我解釋了一下。
A flat rate, price, or percentage is one that is fixed and which applies in every situation.
Fees are charged at a flat rate, rather than on a percentage basis...
費用按固定價格收取,而不是基於百分比收取。
Sometimes there's a flat fee for carrying out a particular task...
有時執行某項特定的任務有固定的價碼。
If trade or business is flat, it is slow and inactive, rather than busy and improving or increasing.
During the first eight months of this year, sales of big pickups were up 14% while car sales stayed flat...
今年前 8 個月,大型貨車的銷售量增加了 14%,而小轎車的銷售仍然不景氣。
For the country overall, house prices have remained flat.
從全國來說,房屋價格沒有多大變化。
If you describe something as flat, you mean that it is dull and not exciting or interesting.
The past few days have seemed comparatively flat and empty...
過去這幾天似乎比較平淡無聊。
It is a long time since a party leader delivered such a dreadfully flat speech as he did yesterday.
很久沒有政黨領導人像他昨天那樣作如此枯燥無聊的演講了。
You use flat to describe someone's voice when they are saying something without expressing any emotion.
'Whatever you say,' he said in a deadly flat voice. 'I'll sit here and wait.'...
“不管你說什麼,我都會坐在這裡等。”他用一種極為平淡的聲音說道。
Her voice was flat, with no question or hope in it.
她的聲音平淡,聽不出疑慮也感覺不到希望。
Flat is used after a letter representing a musical note to show that the note should be played or sung half a tone lower than the note which otherwise matches that letter. Flat is often represented by the symbol after the letter.
...Schubert's B flat Piano Trio (Opus 99).
舒伯特降 B 調鋼琴三重奏(第 99 號作品)
If someone sings flat or if a musical instrument is flat, their singing or the instrument is slightly lower in pitch than it should be.
Her vocal range was, to say the least of it, limited, and she had a distressing tendency to sing flat.
至少可以說,她的音域不夠寬,而且令人不舒服的是,她總是音高偏低。
If you say that something is as flat as a pancake, you are emphasizing that it is completely flat.
My home state of Illinois is flat as a pancake...
我的故鄉伊利諾伊州一馬平川。
If you fall flat on your face, you fall over.
A man walked in off the street and fell flat on his face, unconscious.
一個男人從街上走進來,趴倒在地,不省人事。
If an event or attempt falls flat or falls flat on its face, it is unsuccessful.
Liz meant it as a joke but it fell flat...
利茲本想開個玩笑,結果卻沒有達到效果。
If it wasn't for the main actress, Ellen Barkin, the plot would have fallen flat on its face.
如果不是女主角埃倫·巴爾金的話,整個情節會非常失敗。
If you say that you are flat broke, you mean that you have no money at all.
Two years later he is flat broke and on the dole.
兩年後,他一貧如洗,靠失業救濟金生活。
If you do something flat out, you do it as fast or as hard as you can.
Everyone is working flat out to try to trap those responsible...
每個人都在全力以赴,設法捉住那些罪魁禍首。
They hurtled across the line in a flat-out sprint.
他們拼命衝刺,越過終點線。
You use flat out to emphasize that something is completely the case.
That allegation is a flat-out lie...
那項指控是徹頭徹尾的謊言。
They say the industry is flat out lying about the effects of deregulation.
他們說業界所謂的放寬管制已經取得了成效的說法純屬謊言。
On the flat means on level ground.
He had angina and was unable to walk for more than 200 yards on the flat.
他患有心絞痛,在平地上最多能走 200 碼。
1. the property of having two dimensions
2. the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
Kenworthy detected a certain flatness in the days that followed.
肯沃西在接下來的幾天中感到有些平淡無趣。
Notice the flatness and the rich, red earth.
注意那平坦的地勢和肥沃的紅土地。
The unequivocal flatness of the countryside came almost as a shock.
那一帶一望無際的平原,看上去簡直令人吃驚.
Juliet's voice held the flatness of defeat.
朱麗葉的聲調因挫折而無精打采.
Held is also hostile to geometric abstraction, in particular Minimalism, because of its reductiveness and flatness.
赫爾德也討厭幾何的抽象形態, 特別是具有抽象藝術性和單調性的極少主義.