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If you deform something, or if it deforms, its usual shape changes in a way that spoils how it looks or how well it works. Heat can deform plastic. A crash can deform a metal bar.
If you deform something如果你deform某樣東西 or if it deforms或它自己deform its usual shape changes它原本的形狀就會變 in a way that spoils how it looks or how well it works變得難看或不好用 Heat can deform熱可以使...變形 plastic塑膠 A crash can deform撞擊可以使...變形 a metal bar一根金屬棒
In science class the word can be calmer: a spring deforms when you pull it — the shape changes under force — and it may spring back. Everyday English hears a more negative note: the shape is wrong now, damaged, not as it should be. You can deform an object (you do it to it) or it can deform by itself under stress.
In science class在自然課裡 the word can be calmer這個字可以比較中性 a spring deforms when you pull it彈簧被你拉的時候會deform the shape changes under force形狀在受力下改變 and it may spring back而且它可能會彈回來 Everyday English hears a more negative note日常英文聽起來比較負面 the shape is wrong now形狀現在不對了 damaged受損了 not as it should be不是它該有的樣子 You can deform an object你可以使一個物體deform you do it to it你對它做這件事 or it can deform by itself under stress或者它可以在壓力下自己deform
People also stretch it a little for ideas and facts (“that story deforms the truth”), but the home meaning is physical shape. It is a somewhat formal word; kids are more likely to say , bent, or out of shape.
People also stretch it a little for ideas and facts人們也會把它稍微延伸用在想法和事實上 (“that story deforms the truth”)（「that story deforms the truth」這報導扭曲了事實） but the home meaning is physical shape但它的本義是實體形狀 It is a somewhat formal word這是個有點正式的字 kids are more likely to say squashed, bent, or out of shape小孩比較會說squashed（壓扁）、bent（弄彎）或out of shape（走樣）
組成de- (away from) + form (shape), from Latin dēfōrmāre: to put out of the proper shape.
同家族的字
- formthe shape or pattern; this verb is de- + form
- deformationthe noun: the change of shape
- deformitya related noun, usually for a body part that did not grow in the usual shape
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
deformadj詞源 1/dɪˈfɔːm/
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Having an unusual and unattractive shape; deformed, misshapen; hence, hideous, ugly.
- […] I did proclame, / That vvho ſo kild that monſter moſt deforme, / And him in hardy battayle ouercame, / Should haue mine onely daughter to his Dame, and of my kingdome heyre apparaunt bee: […]
- Sight ſo deform what heart of Rock could long / Drie-ey’d behold?
deformverb詞源 2/dɪˈfɔːm/
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To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.
- I that am curtaild of this faire proportion / Cheated of feature by diſſembling nature, / Deformd, vnfinisht, ſent before my time / Into this breathing vvorld ſcarce halfe made vp, / And that ſo lamely and vnfaſhionable, / That dogs barke at me as I halt by them: […]
- They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: / Darke vvorking Sorcerers that change the minde: / Soule-killing VVitches, that deforme the bodie: […]
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.
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To change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual appearance.
- a face deformed by bitterness
- Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, / […] / Some of them vvaſhing vvith the liquid devv / From of their dainty limbs the duſty ſvveat, / And ſoyle vvhich did deforme their liuely hevv, […]
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To mar the character or quality of (something).
- a marriage deformed by jealousy
- [Y]our beautie Ladies / Hath much deformed vs, faſhioning our humours / Euen to the oppoſed ende of our ententes.
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To become changed in shape or misshapen.
- If I answer that metal’s hard and shiny and cold to the touch and deforms without breaking under blows from a harder material, [David] Hume says those are all sights and sounds and touch. There’s no substance. Tell me what metal is apart from these sensations. Then, of course, I’m stuck.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。