Thank her for telling Dad that she was the one who dented the fender of his car when it really was you all those years ago

14．感谢母亲在许多年以前告诉父亲是她把父亲的车的挡泥板碰得凹下去一块，其实那是你干的。

My Black raise heck when he saw the dented fender. He endlessly blamed the other drivers.

布莱克先生看见那被撞坏的挡泥板吟就大吵大闹起来，没完没了地责备其他司机。

He saw red when a truck dented his new car.

看到卡车撞到他的新车,他火冒三丈。

You would think that all the criticism that had been flung at him might have dented his self-esteem--but nothing of the kind

你以为对他的所有这些批评可能已伤害了他的自尊--没有的事。

As a result, the public confidence in banks and other financial institutions is dented , as was evident in 1995 from the run on Kizu, reportedly the country’s largest credit union, and on the Kobe-based Hyogo Bank

其结果是公众对于银行和其他金融机构的信心受到削弱，这从1995年据说是日本最大的信用合作社的木津信用合作社和位于神户的兵库银行的挤兑事件可明显看出。

Who dented up the door of my car?

谁把我的车门撞凹了?

A taxi drove into my car and dented it.

一辆出租汽车撞在我的汽车上，撞了个坑。

Sometimes the swollen ends can be moved by thumb pressure (soft swells); in other cases the gas pressure is so great that the ends cannot be dented by hand (hard swells).

有时膨胀的两端在手指压力的作用下发生移动,在其它情况下,气体的压力足够大的使得膨胀的两端不能用手指按回。

The back of the car was badly dented in a collision

这辆汽车后部在碰撞中造成很大的凹陷

The iron sheet is too thick to be dented up

这铁皮太厚，敲不凹。

||1:A couple of things appear to have brought matters to a head.||2:Since his arrival, Mr Apotheker has had to lower HP’s revenue forecasts three times (see chart).||3:In part, this reflects slower-than-expected growth in the personal-computer (PC) market, of which HP has a larger share than any other firm.||4:HP’s critics, however, claim that its boss has not done enough to arrest the sales slide, which has dented its share price.

||1:几件事情叠加在一起，使局面到了不可收拾的地步。||2:自从阿波台克上任以来，三次降低惠普收入预测(详情看图表)。||3:从一方面说,这一举措反映了惠普享有最大份额的个人电脑市场增长比预期缓慢。||4:然而，惠普的批评者却称阿波台克在遏制销售业绩下滑上做出的努力不够，从而使惠普的股价一路下跌。

||1:By this time, though, Mr Idema was beginning to look less plausible, his luck less inexhaustible.||2:His loyal wife, Viktoria Runningwolf, had been abandoned, along with the Ultimate Pet Resort that he had helped her set up in Fayetteville, North Carolina.||3:And his past, including 36 arrests (though no convictions) in the 1980s and 1990s, had come to light.||4:He was still wanted in North Carolina for impersonating a policeman and, despite claims to “superblood”, he was to contract AIDS.||5:His life ended in a haze of vodka and cocaine, the self-belief perhaps slightly dented , the self-delusion as strong as ever.

||1:虽然现在艾德马看起来越来越不可信，他的好运渐渐走到尽头。||2:他忠实的妻子Viktoria Runningwolf，以及艾德马为她在北卡州法伊特维尔建造的“终极宠物圣地”都曾被他抛弃。||3:他的过去，包括上世纪80和90年代他曾36次被拘（尽管没有判罪），也已大白于天下。||4:他因在北卡州冒充警察依然在通缉之中。虽然宣称他身上流淌着“超级血液”，他还是感染上了艾滋病。||5:他在伏特加和可卡因作用下结束生命，他的自我信仰也许减少了一点，但自我幻觉依然坚强如往。

||1: Many people also doubt they will save enough on their energy bills to cover the repayments. ||2: For instance, claims in Britain that installing loft insulation can cut energy bills by 20% have been dented by a government study that found it reduced gas consumption by only 1.7% on average. ||3: Others fear that green loans may reduce the value of their home. ||4: In America, firms that underwrite mortgages are hostile to PACE loans.

||1:许多人也会怀疑自己是否能节省下足够的能源费用来支付贷款。||2:在英国有人宣称，安装阁楼绝缘材料能砍掉20%的能源费用，但一项政府研究打击了这一断言，该研究发现，该材料平均仅能降低1.7%的天然气消耗。||3:而其他人则担心绿色贷款会使自己的房屋贬值。||4:在美国，抵押贷款的承销公司坚决反对“清洁能源财产评估”计划提供贷款。

||1:A committee set up by the British Treasury to choose a new administrator for LIBOR gave the job to NYSE Euronext, which operates the New York Stock Exchange.||2:It is paying a token 1 pound (1.||3:50 dollars) for the honour and expects to start managing the international benchmark interest rate early next year.||4:The British Bankers’ Association has overseen LIBOR since the 1980s, but the scandal surrounding the manipulation of the rate by traders dented its reputation.

||1:英国财政部设立一组委员会，来决定由谁管理伦敦同行业银行拆借率。||2:最终将这项工作交给纽约泛欧交易所集团，这个集团经营着纽约证券交易所。||3:明年年初，在象征性地支付一英镑（1.5美元），换取这项荣誉后，此集团将带着众人的期望开始管理国际准基利率。||4:自1980年以来，英国银行家协会便一直关注伦敦银行间拆放款利率，但是一些包含交易者操纵利率内容的丑闻流出，使之名声受损从而失去选票。

A series of battery fires also briefly dented sales growth last year.

况且去年一系列的电池火灾事件也使特斯拉的销量有所下降。

The routine 5-4 split in the Rehnquist court bothered him, because he thought it dented the credibility of the law in general.

5比4的分裂在Regnquist法院已经让人习以为常，这也使他苦恼不已，因为他觉得这对法律的普遍可信力不是什么好事。

Bill Sonneborn, head of KKR Asset Management, said that the group was positioning itself for a period of more dented growth in the area.

KKR资产管理部负责人比尔•索恩本（BillSonneborn）表示，KKR正在为这一地区增长放缓时期的到来做准备。

The battered, scratched and dented rifles and other guns elsewhere in the museum have the same effect.

博物馆其它地方的那些遍体鳞伤、凹凸不平的步枪和其它枪支也产生了同样的效果。

The pursuit of volume seems to have dented the company’s enviable record for reliability.

产量的扩张看起来已经损害了丰田令人羡慕的可靠性记录。

The hopes of spring are dented by a summer of roadside explosions, suicide-bombings and ambushes.

春天的希望被夏天的路边炸弹、自杀式炸弹和伏击无情击碎。

The debacle has severely dented the reputation of Margaret Jackson, the Qantas’ chairman.

此次交易失败严重打击了澳航董事长玛格丽特•杰克逊（MargaretJackson）的声誉。

The move dented mainland property and banking stocks listed in Hong Kong and drove the Hang Seng index down 1. 2 per cent to 28, 501. 10.

此举打击了在港上市的内地地产股和银行股，并拖累恒生指数下跌1.2%，至28501.10点。

This dented his reputation and prompted the allegations: one of rape, two of sexual assault, and one of coercion.

此事件损害他的名誉并促发了这些指控：一项强奸罪名、两项性侵罪名和一项胁迫罪名。

It has also dented their market: Wall Street laid off 240, 000 people in the 18 months from the middle of 2007.

从2007年中期开始的18月内，华尔街有240,000人下岗。这也使得它们的市场萎缩。

But a string of leaks about attempted coups and botched operations against the PKK have dented the generals’ image.

但是，一连串未遂政变和打击库尔德工人党拙劣的行动影响了将军的形象。

But the credit crisis has dented confidence in the health of America’s financial institutions and its model of finance.

但信贷危机削弱了人们对美国金融机构健康状况和金融模式的信心。

But America’s mark is dented by the lack of competition in its network industries, such as telecommunications and utilities.

但应该注意到美国之所以在新创企业的适宜指数上表现不高，是因为其在电信及公共设施建设网状产业方面缺乏竞争机制。

Yet it has barely dented the numbers in the camps, where girls often become mothers in their early teens.

但这根本没能减少难民营里的难民数，在这里女孩子一般在十几岁就当上了妈妈。

The bank was also squeezed by low interest rates, which dented the profits it can earn on its large base of customer deposits.

低利率水平也挤压了汇丰的利润，减少了该行从较大客户储蓄基础所能实现的利润。

Dubai’s woes may dent the odd bank, but aggregate corporate earnings will barely be dented .

迪拜的问题可能会影响到少数银行，但对总体的企业利润不会有什么影响。

rim dented

钢圈瘪(批注)

dented can

n.瘪听,瘪罐

pipe dented

管子瘪入(货损)，管子凹陷

drums dented

桶瘪(批注)

dented cords

n.筘齿

bumper dented

保险杠瘪(批注)

gutter dented

排水沟瘪(批注)

hub cap dented

轴盖瘪(批注)

dented bedding

n.缺裂层理

car body dented

车体瘪(批注)

mud guard dented

挡泥板瘪(批注)

dented spring leaf

n.凹形弹簧片

cases board dented

箱板凹进(批注)

carton plank dented

箱板塌(批注)

carton torn & dented

箱撕破压扁(批注)

dented stilling basin

n.有齿槛的消能力水池

top of the car dented

车顶瘪(批注)

car engine hood dented

车引挚罩凹(批注)

pipe dented on both ends

管子两端凹进(批注)

irregularly-dented design

n.稀密筘花纹

car right front fender dented

车右前挡板凹(批注)