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VERB
使凹陷;使產生凹痕
If you dent the surface of something, you make a hollow area in it by hitting or pressing it.
例句
A great chunk of loose kerbing smashed into my left-front wheel, bursting the tyre and denting the rim...
我車子的左前輪撞在一大塊松動的路緣石上，導致車胎爆裂、輪輞凹陷。
Its brass feet dented the carpet's thick pile.
其黃銅支腳把厚絨地毯壓出了印。
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N-COUNT
凹痕;凹坑
A dent is a hollow in the surface of something which has been caused by hitting or pressing it.
例句
There was a dent in the car which hadn't been there before.
車上出現了一處以前沒有的凹痕。
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VERB
削減;削弱;損害
If something dents your ideas or your pride, it makes you realize that your ideas are wrong, or that you are not as good or successful as you thought.
例句
This has not dented the City's enthusiasm for the company.
這并沒有減弱倫敦金融界對這個公司的熱情。
After a while that sort of thing dents your confidence.
那種事情過上一段時間就會挫傷信心。
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N-COUNT
削減;削弱
If one thing makes a dent in another, it reduces it by a large amount.
例句
The commission had barely begun to make a dent in the problem...
委員會幾乎還沒有在這個問題上取得任何進展。
I hated to put any dents in his enthusiasm, but I was trying to be realistic.
我不想打擊他的熱情，只是試圖現實一些。