When a part of your body is bent, its position is changed so that it is no longer straight.
Keep your knees slightly bent.
保持两膝微屈。
If something that was flat or straight is bent, it has become curved or has been set at an angle through the use of force.
a length of bent wire.
一截弯曲的铁丝。
If an object is bent, it is damaged and no longer has its correct shape.
The trees were all bent and twisted from the wind.
那些树全都被风吹得东倒西歪的。
If a person is bent, their body has become curved because of old age or disease.
a bent, frail, old man.
一个驼背、体弱的老人。
If someone is bent on doing something, especially something harmful, they are determined to do it.
He's bent on suicide.
他一心想自杀。
Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
If you have a bent for something, you have a natural ability to do it or a natural interest in it.
His bent for natural history directed him towards his first job.
他对自然历史天生的爱好指引他找到了他的第一份工作。
If someone is of a particular bent, they hold a particular set of beliefs.
economists of a socialist bent.
有社会主义思想倾向的经济学家。