shorten
英 ['ʃɔːt(ə)n]
美['ʃɔrtn]
英英释义
同义词辨析
考试真题
实用场景例句
近义词limit retrench trim lessen down cut shrink contract dock clip short decrease reduce diminish prune lop curtail shear
反义词
- vt. 缩短；减少；变短
- vi. 缩短；变短
词态变化
第三人称单数: shortens;过去式: shortened;过去分词: shortened;现在分词: shortening;
中文词源
shorten 缩短
来自 short,短的，-en,使。
英英释意
- 1. make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration;
- "He shortened his trip due to illness"
- 2. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
- "The manuscript must be shortened"
- 3. make short or shorter;
- "shorten the skirt"
- "shorten the rope by a few inches"
- 4. become short or shorter;
- "In winter, the days shorten"
- 5. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
- "bowdlerize a novel"
英文词源
- shorten (v.)
- 1510s, "make shorter;" 1560s, "grow shorter," from short (adj.) + -en (1); the earlier form of the verb was simply short, from Old English sceortian "to grow short, become short; run short, fail," gescyrtan "to make short."
同义词辨析
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。
考试真题
- The workers' pay was raised and their working hours were shortened.
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- It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television .
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实用场景例句
- Injury problems could shorten his career.
- 受伤的问题有可能缩短他的职业生涯。
牛津词典
- a shortened version of the game
- 简化了的比赛
牛津词典
- Her name's Katherine, generally shortened to Kay.
- 她名叫凯瑟琳，通常简称凯。
牛津词典
- In November the temperatures drop and the days shorten.
- 十一月气温下降，白天变短。
牛津词典
- Smoking can shorten your life...
- 吸烟会缩短你的寿命。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The trading day is shortened in observance of the Labor Day holiday...
- 因庆祝劳工节，这个交易日交易时间缩短了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Her father paid £1,000 for an operation to shorten her nose...
- 她父亲花了 1,000 英镑给她做了削鼻手术。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- As they shorten, cells become more prone to disease and death.
- 细胞变小后就会更容易感染疾病，也更容易死亡。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Originally called Lili, she eventually shortened her name to Lee.
- 她原先叫 Lili (莉莉)，最后她把名字略作 Lee (李)。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- With the market competition increasingly pricking up, enterprise have to shorten the product develop period.
- 市场竞争的日益加剧促使企业必须缩短开发周期,提供满足客户需求的产品.
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- In ascension, you shorten the delay in time.
- 在提升中, 你缩短了时间中的延迟.
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- Based on reasonable construction plan, shorten construction time 131 days.
- 通过合理优化施工方案, 缩短建井总工期131天.
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- Said scheme can raise the survival rate, shorten the growing period and reduce cost.
- 该方案可提高鸡的成活率, 缩短生长期,降低成本.
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- Greatly simplified in the original complex process, also shorten the operation time, improve efficiency.
- 在大大的简化了原本复杂的操作过程的同时, 也缩短了操作时间, 提高了效率.
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- We can shorten the sleeves a bit.
- 我们可以把袖子稍微收进一点.
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- The goal is to shorten the operation time and enhance the efficiency by 11 %.
- 改进后缩短了取放操作的时间,效率提高了11%.
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- Facts show that this method can low cost, shorten cycle and improve efficiency.
- 事实表明,用此法制粉成本低, 周期短,效率高.
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- Therefore, people devised an assembly language to shorten and simplify the process.
- 因此, 人们发明了一种汇编语言用来缩短和简化程序.
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- Somatic hybridization technique can overcome some difficulties in traditional breeding and shorten breeding period in tobacco.
- 利用体细胞杂交技术,可以克服传统的有性杂交遇到的诸多育种障碍,加速烟草品种选育进程.
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- And it urges publishers to shorten math textbooks, which are often up a thousand pages long.
- 他们还强烈要求出版商缩短数学课本, 这些课本通常都长达上千页.
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- Create much more value and shorten distance between and our company.
- 我们的承诺就是为了给您创造更多价值,使我们之间保持零距离.
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- Cheerful company shorten the mile.
- 谈笑风生,缩短旅程.
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- It pointed that the point of process was that improve process and shorten the reaction time.
- 提出聚合工艺过程的技术要点是改善工艺条件、缩短反应和聚合辅助时间.
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- Molecular marker techniques provided powerful tools to shorten the period and raise the efficiency in breeding.
- 分子标记技术为缩短育种周期,提高育种效率提供了有力的工具.
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- A signpost with variable number of signs that you can lengthen or shorten.
- 标志数量可变的标志柱,您可以将其加长或缩短.
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- To extend mould utility longevity, to shorten injection cycle.
- 提高模具的使用寿命, 缩短注塑成型周期.
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- System to shorten the tournament, Hua not to let the game feel a sense of tension.
- 赛制的缩短, 让倪华还没感受到比赛的紧张感.
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- Smoking is tantamount to squandering their health and shorten their lives.
- 吸烟就等于挥霍自己的健康,缩短自己的生命.
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- Super classic PB on controls, if flexible, can improve the code utilization, shorten development time.
- 超级经典PB日控件, 若能灵活, 能提高代码利用率, 缩短开发时间.
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