By the time 250,000 were on the bridge, engineers noticed something terrible: the roadway was flattening under what turned out to be the heaviest load it had ever been asked to carry.

当25万人在桥上时，工程师们注意到一件可怕的事情：路面被有史以来最沉重的负荷压扁了。

The Internet is flattening the world.

因特网让世界变平了。

Computers think for us, flattening our intelligence.

计算机替我们思考，压平我们的智能。

The tree itself is represented by flattening it in prefix order.

树本身是按照前缀顺序将调试信息扁平化的一种表示方法。

Fear is often shown by flattening the ears against the head.

如果是把耳朵紧贴脑袋就表示它们的害怕。

Across the industry credit-card delinquencies are flattening out.

整个行业的信用卡违约率也趋于平稳。

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。

We say the network is flattening but our sense of geography is changing, too.

我们说网络是扁平化，但我们对地理的理解也在改变。

In Oklahoma, police accused a clown of flattening a man as he walked his dog.

在俄克拉荷马州，警察指控一个小丑击倒了一名遛狗的男子。

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。

Social networking is also flattening organizations by distributing access to information.

社交网络通过散布获取信息的渠道使机构扁平化。

The projections suggest a flattening off and then a slight decline in the foreseeable future.

在可预见的未来，人口预期是维持平缓水平然后缓慢下降。

Today, thanks to the Internet and an ever-flattening world, any startup with a router can go global.

现在，得益于互联网以及得益于世界变得日益扁平化，任何创业公司只要有一个路由器便可国际化。

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。

The quake leveled entire towns, flattening the simple adobe, brick structures and leaving nothing but rubble.

地震夷平了整个城镇，摧毁了简易土坯房和砖结构建筑，在受灾区只留下一片废墟。

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。

Silicon gel sheets are sometimes used to try to reduce the visibility of scars, by flattening and softening them.

硅凝胶表有时被用来设法减低能见度的伤疤，由平坦和软化他们。

I found it rather amusing, I love bunnies, but I would never have imagined flattening them with my a glass piece over it.

我觉得这很可笑，我很喜欢小兔子，但是我绝对不会想到去用一块玻璃板来压扁他们。

But flattening them out makes the individual fascicles accessible, like the parallel wires in old computer cables, says Dr Tyler.

但是把股骨神经变成扁平状就可以接近单独的神经束了，就像是旧式电脑电缆里的并行线路一样，Tyler博士说。

It's pretty well known by now that the Internet, for all its world-flattening glory, is a destroyer of businesses without parallel.

众所周知，网络带着将世界扁平化的光辉，成为史无前例的“企业杀手”。

In this "flattening" trend, he argues that the playing field for individuals and companies all over the globe is being leveled.

他认为，在这股“扁平化”的潮流中，全世界个人和企业的竞争环境正在趋于公平。

Both the front and rear tyres on this model are tubeless type that are less susceptible to sudden flattening should the tyre be punctured.

无论是正面，并在此模型的后轮内胎轮胎类型，不太容易受到突然平缓如果轮胎被刺破。

You will need a marked rope or a 100ft measuring tape to mark out the site, and a foot-wide wooden board about 4ft long to do the flattening.

准备一条有标记的绳子或者是100英尺的卷尺，用来给场地划定界限。准备一个与脚同宽，长约4英尺的木板，用以压倒麦秆。

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。

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。