1. elongate什么意思

1. This picture that you''ve sketched isn''t like her. The face is too elongated.
    你的这张写生画不象她，脸画得太长了。

1. 拉长,延伸：elite 社会名流,精华 | elongate 拉长,延伸 | elope 私奔,逃亡

2. (使)伸长,延长：eliminate 消除,除去 | elongate (使)伸长,延长 | emerge 形成,显现

3. 伸长：elongate delta 纵长三角洲 | elongate 伸长 | elongated anticline 狭长背斜

1. （使）拉长;（使）延长
    If you elongate something or if it elongates, you stretch it so that it becomes longer.

    e.g. ''Mom,'' she intoned, elongating the word...
           “妈妈，”她拖长了声音，平静地说道。
    e.g. Corn is treated when the stalk starts to elongate.
           在玉米秆开始拔节时，给玉米打药。

1. make long or longer by pulling and stretching

    e.g. stretch the fabric

    Synonym: stretch

1. having notably more length than width
    being long and slender

    e.g. an elongate tail tapering to a point
           the old man''s gaunt and elongated frame

    Synonym: elongated

2. (of a leaf shape) long and narrow

    Synonym: linear