dent是什么意思

双语用例

• One can think of legioned examples where dislocation and huge upset would be caused for small businesses, denting their production and wealth-creating capacity.

• The public image has been dented by the environmental crisis of the past 20 years.

• The barrier crashed on to the roof of a car, denting and scratching it.

• The right to silence and the admissibility of evidence are dented.

• The reality of discretionary spend would still hold, even if the principle were to be dented by accepting the new clause.

• As a result of past actions, trust has been dented.

• Pride is dented and old attitudes have to be set aside.

• Study of the graph of acci- dents since the records were commenced in the 1920s shows that we can.