elongate

英 [ˈiːlɒŋɡeɪt]

美 [ɪˈlɔːŋɡeɪt]

v. (使)变长，伸长; 拉长

现在分词：elongating　第三人称单数：elongates　过去分词：elongated　过去式：elongated　复数：elongates　

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BNC.33998 / COCA.24478

牛津词典

verb

（使）变长，伸长；拉长
to become longer; to make sth longer

柯林斯词典

V-ERG （使）拉长;（使）延长
If youelongatesomething or if itelongates, you stretch it so that it becomes longer.
1. 'Mom,' she intoned, elongating the word...
  “妈妈，”她拖长了声音，平静地说道。
2. Corn is treated when the stalk starts to elongate.
  在玉米秆开始拔节时，给玉米打药。

英英释义

verb

make long or longer by pulling and stretching
1. stretch the fabric
Synonym:stretch

adj

having notably more length than width
1. an elongate tail tapering to a point
2. the old man's gaunt and elongated frame
Synonym:elongated
(of a leaf shape) long and narrow
Synonym:linear

双语例句

Flesh of eel; elongate fatty-fleshed fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels usually smoked or pickled.
鳗鱼的肉；在欧洲和美洲淡水中发现的含脂肪多的长条鱼；大鳗鱼通常烟熏或腌渍。
To avoid a double chin, elongate your neck and push your face forward a bit.
为了避免出现双下巴，拉长脖子，将脸部微微前伸。
Rigid spirally curved elongate bacteria.
延长细菌，质硬，螺旋曲线状。
The new evidence from developmental biology is particularly damaging to the classical theory that feathers evolved from elongate scales.
其中，从前认为羽毛是由鳞片延伸而来的传统理论，在发生生物学的新证据面前尤其站不住脚。
Elongate freshwater COD of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth.
北欧和北美长身淡水鳕，嘴部周围有鱼须。
Elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced.
长鱼，没有骨盆鳍和带状物，或已经退化。
'Mom,' she intoned, elongating the word
“妈妈，”她拖长了声音，平静地说道。
Small extremely elongate earth-living centipedes.
小型的极端地伸长的土生蜈蚣。
Any of various epiphytic orchids of the genus Cymbidium, native to tropical Asia and Australia and extensively hybridized and cultivated for their elongate clusters of showy blooms.
兰花一种附生的兰属兰花，原产于热带亚洲和澳大利亚，并且因其细长的簇簇艳丽的花朵而被大面积杂交和种植。
Fern with elongate silvery outgrowths enclosing the developing spores. ( botany) of or relating to ascospores.
包围孢子生长的一种蕨类植物。（植物学）属于或与囊孢子有关。