n. 整平；扁率；压扁作用
v. 压扁（flatten 的 ing 形式）
1.A calculation method of the flattening in sheet rolling deformation zone, using influence function, was derived.
采用影响函数法推导了薄板轧制时变形区内轧辊弹性压扁的计算式。
2.The Internet is flattening the world.
因特网让世界变平了。
3.The fashion for flattening hierarchies has had the paradoxical effect of multiplying meaningless job titles.
这种令人愉快的等级时尚对没有意义的头衔的增多具有矛盾影响。
4.For there always remains this question of flattening something out.
因为总是有这个某件东西被摆平的问题。
5.Flattening of the right atrial border is also seen in constrictive pericarditis.
右心房缘变平亦见于缩窄性心包炎。
6.The thinking here is that when someone’s ego needs stroking it’s as if you were flattening down their raised hackles or smoothing their feathers.
这里的想法是，当某人需要培养自尊心，他们就会设想仿佛有人正在抚平他们的羽毛，平复他们的怒气。