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To straighten something is to make it straight — to take out a bend or a curve, like straightening a bent wire or straightening your back when you sit up. 'Straighten up' can also mean to tidy a messy room. And when people say someone needs to 'straighten out,' they usually mean the person needs to stop behaving badly and start acting more responsibly.
弄直、拉直；straighten up 指整理房間；straighten out 指改善行為、導正
原始詞典資料7 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。
straightenverb/ˈstɹeɪtn̩/
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To cause to become straight.
- [S]o / Do these upbear the little world below / Of Education,—Patience, Love, and Hope. / Methinks, I see them group'd in seemly show, / The straiten'd arms upraised, the palms aslope, / And robes that touching as adown they flow, / Distinctly blend, like snow emboss'd in snow.
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To become straight.
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To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.
- to straighten one's affairs
- straighten one's account
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To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
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slangTo bribe or corrupt.
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To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
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informalTo make heterosexual.
- It has been said that to survive in this Wasp society, Blacks must straighten their hair, Jews must straighten their noses, and Gays must straighten themselves. But we will no longer tolerate being straightened. It is the doctors and the straight society who must change.
- It raises the prospect that pregnant women could one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual. Experts say that, in theory, the "straightening" procedure on humans could be as simple as a hormone supplement for mothers-to-be, worn on the skin like an anti-smoking nicotine patch.
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。