Prosecutors are investigating why so many modern buildings were flattened by the quake and whether flawed construction materials were to blame.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

Their diversity has not been flattened or homogenized by the final editor of the text.

它们的多样性并没有被消弱或统一划齐,被章节最后的编辑者。

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If you took out somebody's cortex and flattened it out, it would be two feet square, sort of like a nice--like a rug.

如果你取出某人的大脑皮层,把它摊开,会有两平方英尺那么大,有点像一张地毯

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Dozens of houses on the outskirts of the Sicilian city were swept away or flattened by heavy rain and mud.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

"It was completely flattened. I just had this huge sense of, 'oh,thank goodness we can now start to move forward'."

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

Hundreds of houses were flattened and flooded by the two million cubic meters of water that ripped through the Dutch-colonial era dam.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Indonesian foreign affairs spokesman Teuku Faizasyah says the quake flattened an estimated including about 5,000 homes.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03