1·Nearly one hour of waiting hasn't dented the enthusiasm of the crowd one bit.
将近一个小时的等待并没有削弱这一群歌迷的一点热情。
2·Toyota has been reeling after its recalls, which bruised its vaunted reputation for quality and dented its market share in the U. S. , its biggest market.
丰田在召回后一直都处于困扰之中，这使得其吹嘘的质量信誉遭受挫折也使其在最大的市场美国的市场份额得到削弱。
3·Hard times haven't nicked, dented or damaged this country's creative core competence. To the contrary, they've made more people more interested in being more creative.
那些艰难的时刻并没有创伤，削弱或破坏这个国家的核心创造力，却使更多人对更富创造性更感兴趣。
4·It was 79-82 that made me a convinced saltwater economist. And nothing that has happened since - certainly not the current crisis - has dented that conviction.
正是79 - 82年的滞胀，使我成为了一个笃诚的“咸水派经济学家”2。此后所发生的任何事情(当然包括当前的危机)，都未使我的信念有半点的削弱。
1·A large circle and inner “ladder” marks, which had flattened the grass but not dented the ground, as if a heavy craft had hovered but not landed.
一个大圈，中间有梯子的痕迹。 然而只看见有被压倒的草，却并没有凹陷的土地，就好像一架沉重的飞船曾在上空盘旋却并没有着陆。
2·Felipe Massa traces the skin around the stitched but still dented wound over his left eye as he smiles gently at a question about the nature of fate.
在回答一个关于命运的问题时，菲利普-马萨（Felipe Massa）温柔地笑了，左眼上方的伤口缝合处明显地凹陷下去。
3·But to my great surprise, it was growing in an old dented, rusty bucket.
但令我特别惊奇的是，它竟然生长在一个凹陷的、生了锈的铁桶里。
4·Both the CAM and its roller are badly dented.
凸轮和滚轮都有严重凹陷。
5·Well, the February consignment of canned goods arrived at the destination rather dented and our users refused to pay for It.
你瞧，二月份装运的那些罐头制品运达目的地时，受挤压凹陷了，用户拒绝付款。
1·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。
1·Record oil prices have dented consumer confidence.
前所未有的高油价已经挫伤消费者信心。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Frauds like Bernie Madoff's, which have dented investor confidence in hedge funds in America and Europe, are less likely to go unnoticed in Brazil.
麦道夫(Bernie Madoff)骗局挫伤了美国和欧洲投资者对对冲基金的信心。这样的骗局发生在巴西的话一定会引起注意。