Flatten the dough with a rolling pin before placing it in the oven.
用擀面杖将面团擀平，然后放入烤箱。
The storm
flattened several houses in the village.
暴风雨摧毁了村子里的几所房屋。
Can you please flatten this box so it takes up less space?
你能把这个盒子压扁，以便占用更少的空间吗？
The athlete had to flatten his abs through rigorous training for the competition.
为了比赛，这位运动员通过严格的训练来使腹部变得平坦。
The road flattens out after you pass the hill.
过了那个山丘后，道路就变得平坦了。
She used a steamroller to flatten the gravel on her driveway.
她用压路机平整了车道上的碎石。
In the game, you can flatten your opponents by strategic moves.
在游戏中，你可以通过策略性操作击败对手。
The economic downturn has
flattened consumer spending across the board.
经济衰退全面抑制了消费者的支出。
He had to flatten himself against the wall to avoid being seen.
他不得不紧贴着墙以避免被发现。
The new software update aims to flatten the learning curve for beginners.
新的软件更新旨在降低初学者的学习难度。
Since August, visas for both individual and group tours to Macao from the Chinese mainland are being restored in phases, as the country sees flattened curves in COVID-19 cases.
"I will wait until the epidemic curves are flattened," Zhu said.
"Early detection helps to reduce the spread of the virus and to flatten the curve.
As China is among the quickest to flatten the virus curve and is expected to see early signs of economic recovery, Alibaba pledged to help export enterprises explore the domestic market, recruiting them as suppliers for Tmall Supermarket and Taobao Xinxuan (a private-label goods market).
Against flattened economic growth and brutally aggressive competition, Alibaba is now giving unprecedented priority to Juhuasuan, its group-buying and flash-sale platform, repositioning it as the top destination for consumers from smaller cities and townships.
Even though many carmakers from both domestic and global markets saw auto sales in China flatten or contract this year, this was balanced by the relatively stable sales of new energy vehicles and high-end cars, as well as hybrid vehicles, said Norbert Meyring, head of the industrial manufacturing and automotive sector for KPMG China.
That is, they only flatten the curve rather than reverse the trend.
Yet the trend flattened after that and even declined in the year 2014 mainly because of the Guo Meimei scandal, who gained notoriety for flaunting a jet-set lifestyle while also working for a charity.
"The rate of decline in developed economies is likely to flatten as some investment activity appears to be picking up in the third quarter.
The country saw FMCG sales flatten in the first nine months of 2020 after three straight years of more than 5 percent of annual growth, the report by consultancies Bain&Co and Kantar Worldpanel said.
该报告由咨询公司Bain&Co和Kantar Worldpanel发布，称在连续三年每年增长超过5%之后，2020年前九个月该国快速消费品销售趋于平稳。
Major Chinese online retailers are accelerating efforts to expand their presence into the country's lower-tier markets to further unleash consumption potential, partly owing to the flattened growth of online shopping in first-and second-tier cities, said industry insiders.
Throughout the journey, she discovered how the Internet created a flattened world and gave a bigger voice to the people, especially women, to express their thoughts and ideas.
Even though many carmakers from both domestic and global manufacturers saw auto sales in China flatten or contract this year, this was balanced by the relatively stable sales of high-end cars, SUVs, and new energy vehicles.
Musk said Tesla has been continuing to flatten its management structure to help it communicate better, eliminate bureaucracy and move faster.
"Auto sales have flattened in recent months, and manufacturers are not prepared to absorb a sharp increase in costs to build cars and trucks in America.
The industry expected flattened but healthy development in the electric vehicle market, but deliveries in the first quarter were less positive than insiders' predictions.
However, if China's economy continues to stabilize and recover, and the real estate market gradually picks up in 2023, the tide of mortgage prepayments may tend to flatten, said Dong Ximiao, chief researcher at Merchants Union Consumer Finance Co. "If effective measures are taken to reduce mortgage prepayments and guide people to transform their savings into consumption and investment, it will provide strong support for the expansion of consumption and the acceleration of economic and social recovery," Dong said.
Although the inflation rate of developed economies is still rising, the marginal slope has also flattened significantly.
Reflecting this, the so-called countercyclical factor in the daily fixing, a tool that the central bank uses to flatten foreign exchange market volatility, has been neutral during recent fluctuations in the onshore RMB exchange rate against the US dollar, Xing added.
"Extreme measures to flatten the virus 'curve' is sensible – for a time – to stretch out the strain on health infrastructure.