distortion
US /dɪˈstɔrʃən/
・UK /dɪ'stɔ:ʃn/
B1 中級
n. (u.)不可數名詞扭曲； 曲解
Some artists use distortion to make a funny picture
n. (u.)不可數名詞失真
A distortion in the story makes it hard to understand what really happened
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誰是內心的獨裁者？ (Who is the Dictator Within?)
- We can see when our thoughts fall into a cognitive distortion.
當我們的想法陷入認知扭曲時，我們就能看出來。
- But many times then we just have the thought and we know we're having a cognitive distortion and then we judge ourselves for having the cognitive distortion, which doesn't get rid of the thought to begin with and now adds an extra layer of stress.
但很多時候，我們只是有了這種想法，就知道自己的認知出現了偏差，然後我們會因為自己的認知偏差而對自己進行評判，這並沒有從一開始就擺脫這種想法，現在又增加了一層額外的壓力。
時代精神：超越金錢 — 專訪彼得·約瑟夫！ (Zeitgeist: Moving Beyond Money - Interview with Peter Joseph)
- Unfortunately, we have to undo the tremendous psychological distortion that's been created after, well, more or less centuries of this despotic system that is failing right in front of us and will lead to simply more war, more poverty.
去禁止我們創造永續物品的能力
- distortion that has been created after, more or less
這種心理扭曲誕生之後 或多或少
心靈時鐘：續集 (2008) (Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008))
- profit is completely unsustainable and will only produce further imbalance, fragmentation, distortion, and invariably destruction.
遠遠超過沙烏地阿拉伯 波蘭 挪威 南非
- Yet religion has succeeded in shutting down the awareness of this emergence by instilling the psychological distortion of faith upon its followers, where logic and new information is rejected in favor of traditionalized, outdated beliefs.
杜邦公司 陶氏化工公司 聯合碳化物公司 及埃克森美孚石油公司
Radiohead 如何避免歌曲俗套：以〈Paranoid Android〉為例！ (How Radiohead Avoid Clichés In Songwriting: Paranoid Android)
- The curtains are not just drawn, they're ripped apart. The cliffhanger turns into a cliff jump fall. A heavily distorted guitar just erupts into the song and plays that melody that I talked about earlier. There's this chaotic and disorienting feeling to the way that the song is being played, and that is partly because of the distortion, the amount of gain that is put on his amp.
窗簾不僅拉上了，還被撕開了。懸念變成了懸崖跳落。一把嚴重失真的吉他突然闖入歌曲，彈奏出我之前說過的旋律。這首歌的演奏方式給人一種混亂和迷失的感覺，部分原因是吉他的失真和放大器的增益。
- and that is partly because of the distortion, the amount of gain that is put on his amp,
你忘了多帥的10個90年代樂團！ (Top 10 90s Bands You Forgot Were Awesome)
- Rock, metal and even early post hardcore came together in feedback and distortion, heavy jams that somehow worked.
搖滾、金屬，甚至是早期的 post hardcore，都在失真和迴響中融合，創造出令人驚豔的重型即興演奏。
- Rock, metal, and even early post-hardcore came together in feedback and distortion-heavy jams that somehow worked.
對於真正的九零年代搖滾樂迷來說，Letters to Cleo 絕非只有一首成名曲。