dent
音标：
英音/ dent / 美音/ dent /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
England’s World Cup preparation was dented further by a washout in the third T20 against Pakistan in Cardiff.
英格兰队在卡迪夫举行的T20第三场比赛中对阵巴基斯坦队的比赛中惨败，进一步削弱了英格兰队的世界杯备战能力。
—BBC
Captain Sophie Devine was unable to bat after sustaining a quad injury in the field, to further dent New Zealand’s hopes of chasing the competitive total.
队长索菲·迪瓦恩（Sophie Devine）在赛场上四肢受伤后无法击球，这进一步削弱了新西兰队追逐总冠军的希望。
—BBC
Old orthodoxies should be shattered, rivals dented and establishment egos bruised in pursuit of a project external-link that justified it all.
为了追求一个能够证明这一切的外部链接项目，旧的正统观念应该被打破，竞争对手应该被削弱，当权者的自尊心应该受到伤害。
—BBC
基本释意：
noun
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
使产生凹痕；损害，削弱
同义词：
ding,divot,gouge,nick,incision,prick,scratch,slit,indent
短释义：
Car accidents, whether they’re serious or just fender benders, often result in dents. If you fall off your bike, you may get a dent in your helmet, and a mishandled package might be delivered to your door full of dents. There’s also a figurative kind of dent, a reduction in amount: “You barely made a dent in that oatmeal — aren’t you hungry?” Dent comes from Middle English, originally a variation on dint, “a blow dealt in fighting.”
凹痕是某种打击后在表面上留下的凿痕或凹陷。如果用锤子敲打汤锅，就会留下凹痕。
长释义：
Car accidents, whether they’re serious or just fender benders, often result in dents. If you fall off your bike, you may get a dent in your helmet, and a mishandled package might be delivered to your door full of dents. There’s also a figurative kind of dent, a reduction in amount: “You barely made a dent in that oatmeal — aren’t you hungry?” Dent comes from Middle English, originally a variation on dint, “a blow dealt in fighting.”
车祸，无论是严重的还是只是挡泥板弯曲，通常都会导致凹痕。如果您从自行车上摔下来，头盔上可能会出现凹痕，而处理不当的包裹可能会被送到您家门口，上面布满了凹痕。还有一种象征性的减少，即数量的减少：“你几乎没有吃燕麦片——你不饿吗？” Dent源自中古英语，最初是dint的变体，意为“战斗中的一击”。
文学例句：
As Jack watched with horror, the dent slowly pushed back out with a nauseating pop.
杰克惊恐地看着，凹痕慢慢地退缩，发出令人作呕的爆裂声。
—Half Upon a Time by James Riley
It was as big as ever, with hardly a dent to show for all her scraping.
它和以前一样大，在她的刮擦下几乎看不到任何凹痕。
—A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
Papers are everywhere, and big chunks of the walls are either dented or missing entirely.
文件到处都是，大块墙壁要么凹陷，要么完全缺失。
—Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
词源：
dent (n.)early 14c., “a strike or blow,” dialectal variant of Middle English dint, dunt (see dint); sense of “indentation, hollow mark made by a blow or pressure” is by 1560s, apparently by influence of indent.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
dent (n.) 14世纪早期，“打击或打击”，中古英语 dint、dunt 的方言变体（参见 dint）； “压痕，由打击或压力造成的空心标记”的含义是在 1560 年代，显然是受到压痕的影响。相关条目及更多
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