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short·en·s 英'ʃɔːtn美'ʃɔːrtn COCA⁴⁹⁶⁰⁴BNC⁴⁵⁹⁴⁴
基本双解英英辨析搭配短语近义反义句型用法例句Thesaurus例句
v.弄短³⁰;变短⁷⁰原型shorten的三单名词shortener过去分词shortened现在分词shortening三单shortens
v.动词
vt. & vi. 使变短to become shorter
Verb:
make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration;He shortened his trip due to illness reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;The manuscript must be shortened make short or shorter;shorten the skirt shorten the rope by a few inches become short or shorter;In winter, the days shorten edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;bowdlerize a novel
v.动词
shorten, abbreviate, abridge, condense, contract这组词用于字词、段落、章节等时,都含有“删减”或“精简”的意思。它们的区别在于: 1.abridge, condense和shorten都可指压缩文章、著作的篇幅而内容不变, abridge比shorten更文雅; abbreviate主要用于删除音节、字母或单词而保留词头; contract通常指省略单词的中间部分,不包括只保留词头的词。 2.表示“缩略成…”时, abbreviate, condense, contract和shorten常与介词to搭配; condense也常与介词into搭配。 shorten，abbreviate，abridge，cut这些动词均含有“缩短”之意。 shorten通常指缩短时间、尺寸或过程。 abbreviate指省去应有的或后续的部分，从而使整体缩短。也可指缩短时间。 abridge多指对书籍的删节或缩短，删去不重要部分而保存其精华。 cut普通用词，指任何缩短而缩减的过程。
用作动词 v.
～+名词shorten sails收帆减速shorten a skirt将裙子改短shorten the span缩短时间～+介词shorten by cold遇冷会缩短shorten sth by an inch把某物缩短一英寸shorten into缩短为shorten to压缩到
用作动词v.
shorten to v.+prep.
使压缩到… (cause sth to become shorter to) shorten sth to sthShorten the report to 2000 words.把这份报告压缩到2000字。近义词 cut切dock码头trim修剪clip夹住edit剪辑down向下boil沸腾limit限度prune修剪shear修剪slash猛砍short短的stunt特技lower低的reduce减少shrink收缩lessen减少digest摘要abridge删节curtail缩减take up拿起brief短暂的contract合同condense浓缩compress压缩diminish减少cut down削减cut back削减decrease减少narrow有限的breviate缩简simplify简化castrate阉割summarize概述lop剪去树枝boil down浓缩cut short中断expurgate净化abbreviate缩写bowdlerize删改telescope望远镜truncate切去一端retrench减少开支bowdlerise删除文句pollard截去枝梢的树…foreshorten按照透视法画…synopsize 给 … 写提要给…反义词 lengthen加长
用作动词(v.
用作不及物动词
S+～+AThe days shorten in winter.冬天昼短。
The days are rapidly shortening.白昼正在很快变短。
The coat shortened after washing.这件上衣水洗后变短了。
用作及物动词
S+～+ n./pron.Can you shorten this dress for me?你能为我把这条连衣裙改短吗?
The new highway shortens the trip.新公路缩短旅程。
They shortened the journey by telling stories.他们讲故事来消磨旅途时间。
The letter is too long.Can you shorten it a little?这信太长了,你是不是把它改短一点?
The bill is intended to shorten the arm of the Opposition.这项法案的目的在于限制反对党的力量。
It is suggested that the steel pipe should be shortened.有人提议把这根钢管切短。
His life was shortened by trouble.他的寿命因烦劳而缩短了。
Their pleasures were shortened by the bad weather.他们因天气不好而兴致不高了。
v.动词
shorten的基本意思是“使变短”,指缩减其长度或持续时间,有时不是实际地缩短,而只是表面感觉上的缩短。 shorten可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时接名词或代词作宾语。
动词100%
用作动词Ive asked him toshortenmy trousers.我让他把我的裤子弄短点。
All you need to do is toshortenthe sleeves of the dress instead of picking the whole thing apart.你要做的只是将袖子弄短，而不是将整件衣服拆开。
The days are beginning toshorten.白天开始变短了。
The vehicles that press down on a bridge's roadway compress the top half of the road, causing it toshortenlike a compressed spring.那些从桥上过压紧桥面的车辆会导致路面上半部分的压缩，使其想被压缩的弹簧一样变短。verb.diminish, decrease
同义词 abbreviate,compress,curtail,cut,cut back,cut down,lessen,minimize,reduce,shrink,slash,trimabridge,bob,chop,clip,condense,contract,dock,edit,elide,excerpt,lop,retrench,snipblue pencil,boil down,cut to the bone,make a long story short,put in a nutshell
反义词 develop,enlarge,expand,extend,grow,increase,lengthen,raise,strengthen,stretchamplify,elongate The Mexican capital has become famous for Darwinian traffic habits an average of 1,500 pedestrians are killed in accidents a year and pollution so heavy that it likely shortens life spans.
墨西哥首都因达尔文式交通习惯而闻名平均每年有1500名行人死于交通事故，而且污染严重到可能缩短人的寿命。 yeeyan
The tremendous dynamic loads put on large wind turbine blades shortens the life of fiberglass blades, adding to the total cost of large-scale wind energy development.
风机运转时，风机叶片承受了巨大的动态载荷，使得玻璃纤维材料制成的叶片寿命缩短，这大大增加大型风能开发项目的总成本。 yeeyan
“ Cyber language is more vivid and it shortens the distances between people in communication, ” he said.
他说：“网络语言更加生动，而且缩短了人们互相交流的差距。” yeeyan
A few drops in each ear at the first sign of infection supposedly shortens the illness.
据说在感染症状出现之初在每边耳朵各滴几滴双氧水会缩短患病时间。 iciba
Anxiety wears you out and it shortens your life, but if you have no other answers, you are going to keep worrying.
焦虑会耗尽你的生命，缩短你的生命，但如果你没有别的办法了，你就只能继续忧虑下去。 yeeyan
Business activity monitoring shortens the latency period between a significant business event and notification of the right person in the organization.
业务活动监视缩短了重大业务事件与组织中的恰当人员接到通知之间的延迟周期。 ibm
But for many businesses, especially government ones, productivity plummets as the working day shortens by two or three hours.
但对于其他很多工作，特别是政府部门，因为每天减少的两或三个小时的工作时间导致生产力暴跌。 ecocn
Delivering working software early shortens the feedback loop between business and IT, allowing them to collaborate more effectively.
及早交付可运行的软件缩短了业务和 IT间的反馈周期，这使得他们能够更有效地协同合作。 infoq
Doing so shortens the design, coding, and testing cycle as well as simplifies maintenance issues.
这样做可以缩短设计、编码和测试周期，并简化维护问题。 ibm
Each time a cell divides, its telomeres shortens and the cell becomes more susceptible to dying.
每当一个细胞分解，它的端粒就会缩短，而细胞就变得更为易于死亡。 yeeyan
Highly automated conversion utilities enable IT to migrate to EGL in a cost-effective, efficient manner, which greatly reduces risk and shortens the migration process.
高度自动化的转换使 IT以节省成本、高效的方式移植到 EGL，这大大减少了风险并缩短了移植过程。 ibm
It also shortens the minimum focusing distance to 4.6 feet, eight inches better than the first generation lens.
另外镜头的最短焦距被进一步缩短为4.6英尺，比第一代镜头的最短焦距缩短了8英尺。 cnbeta.com
It links the cities of Jiaxing and Ningbo, and shortens the commute between the two cities by75 miles.
它连通了嘉兴和宁波，将两城市之间的往来距离缩短了75英里。 yeeyan
Mothers who have complained through the centuries that their sons will be the death of them may be right-- a study published in the journal Science showsshavingsboys shortens a woman's life span.
千百年来一直在抱怨儿子会让自己操心死的母亲们也许是对的——发表在《科学》杂志上的一篇论文显示生男孩会缩短妇女的寿命。 edu.sina.com.cn
Previous research has shown that the presence of larvae in colonies reduces adult bees’ energy stores and shortens the honeybee lifespan.
早期的研究结果表明，由于蜂群中幼虫的诞生，而使得成年蜜蜂体内的能量贮藏减少，并且寿命缩短。 yeeyan
Providing access to enterprise applications in this way shortens the migration to a Linux desktop.
以这种方式提供对企业应用程序的访问可以缩短迁移到 Linux桌面的过程。 ibm
Relying on frameworks that have already been validated in production applications shortens development time, reduces cost, and increases product quality.
使用已在产品应用中经过验证的框架可以缩短开发时间，降低成本，并且提高产品质量。 ibm
Removing the extension tube shortens the spacing to allow any binocular viewer to reach focus without a Barlow lens.
除去延长管缩短间隔让任何的用两眼的观众到达没有一个巴罗镜的焦点。 iciba
Slouching or rolling your shoulders forward shortens your chest muscles and reduces their flexibility.
肩膀低垂或是内旋会使胸肌缩短并且弹性降低。 kekenet
Some research shows giving misoprostol decreases the amount of oxytocin needed and shortens labor.
部分研究表明，米苏前列腺能够减少催产素的剂量，缩短产程。 yeeyan
That means, each cigarette shortens the life of the smoker by around8 minutes.
也就是说，每支香烟都会缩短你8分钟的生命。 hxen
Thinning ice shortens the winter travel season, making it more difficult to trade goods between villages, visit friends and relatives, or reach traditional hunting grounds.
冰层变薄缩短了冬季出行的时间，给村与村之间的商品交易，走亲访友和到达传统的狩猎场带来更大困难。 yeeyan
This gives them context, and it shortens the time necessary to switch from one task to another.
这赋予他们一定的背景，并缩短了从一项任务转向另一项任务所需要的时间。 ibm
This shortens the lines of command for split- second decisions.
因为这样能够缩短命令链的长度，做出实时的决定。 ecocn
Updating the view locally on the client saves round trips to the server, shortens response time by orders of magnitude, and dramatically improves the user experience.
更新客户机本地视图省去了往返服务器的过程，缩短了几个数量级的响应时间，而且极大地改善了用户体验。 ibm
You repeat this three times a week; each time, it incrementally lengthens the run and shortens the walk.
你每周做三次；逐步延长跑步时间，缩短散步时间。 yeeyan |