Distort

(a.) Distorted; misshapen.

(v. t.) To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.

(v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.

(v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.

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• You saw the flash, then heard the crack, then saw the smoke ball distort and thin in the wind. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• We distort a dozen sickly trees into unaccustomed shapes in a little yard no bigger than a dining room, and then surely they look absurd enough. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• To overlook this fact means to distort and pervert human nature. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Riderhood had not done the deed, but had resolved in his malice to turn against her father, the appearances that were ready to his hand to distort. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The child has specific powers; to ignore that fact is to stunt or distort the organs upon which his growth depends. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The light is a very pure white one, does not distort or falsify colors, and effects a great saving of gas. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• His handsome face was distorted with a spasm of despair, and his hands tore at his hair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• But the trouble with them is that the psychology is weak and uninformed, distorted by moral enthusiasms, and put out without any particular reference to the task of statesmanship. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Up came the man, and his face became more frightfully distorted than ever, as he drew nearer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• As I gained my feet the therns lowered their wicked rifles, their faces distorted in mingled chagrin, consternation, and alarm. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It is, if you please, like the crops of a rude and forbidding soil--a coarse, distorted thing though living. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Again the man nodded his head, his face distorted by fear of the death that had been so close. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Then distorting his pockets with knobby bundles, and giving her the flowers to hold, he put up the old umbrella, and they traveled on again. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Such limitation was both distorting and corrupting. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Heat distorts articles made of potters' clay after they have been hardened by cold. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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