shortened
英 [ˈʃɔːtnd]
美 [ˈʃɔːrtnd]
v. (使)变短,缩短
shorten的过去分词和过去式
BNC.20084 / COCA.19816
柯林斯词典
- V-ERG (使)时间变短;缩短(…的时间)
If youshortenan event or the length of time that something lasts, or if itshortens, it does not last as long as it would otherwise do or as it used to do.- Smoking can shorten your life...
吸烟会缩短你的寿命。 - 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。 - When the days shorten in winter some people suffer depression.
冬季天短,有些人会变得抑郁消沉。
- Smoking can shorten your life...
- V-ERG 缩短…的长度;(物体)变短
If youshortenan object or if itshortens, it becomes smaller in length.- 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。 - 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。
- Her father paid £1,000 for an operation to shorten her nose...
- VERB 缩写,缩短(名字等)
If youshortena name or other word, you change it by removing some of the letters.- 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)。
- Originally called Lili, she eventually shortened her name to Lee.
- toshorten the odds→ see:odds
英英释义
adj
- with parts removed
- the drastically cut film
- cut short
- a sawed-off shotgun
- a sawed-off broomstick
- the shortened rope was easier to use
- shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
- a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars
- years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream
- cut short in duration
- the abbreviated speech
- her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking
- an unsatisfactory truncated conversation
双语例句
- A shortened working week has freed up leisure time, but frozen earnings and stifled job creation.
缩短的工作周时释放出闲暇时间,但也冻结了收入增长并抑制了就业岗位的创造。 - Vacations have lengthened and the work week has shortened
假期延长,工作周就缩短了。 - The time for loading and unloading has been shortened.
装卸时间也就缩短了。 - The tailor shortened the ( sleeves) of his shirt.
裁缝把他衬衫的袖子改短了。 - Transaction duration can be shortened by investing in network configuration, hardware, and software.
通过对网络配置、硬件和软件进行优化,可以缩短事务持续时间。 - She shortened the dress.
她改短了那件衣服。 - The payback period will be shortened up to2 months.
投资回收期将被缩短到两个月。 - To resolve the problem, we changed the stain gauge arrangement and shortened the distance used for strain measurement.
为了解决这个问题,我们改变了应变仪配置,缩短了用于应变测量的距离。 - His reception there shortened the odds that he might be the next Tory leader.
他在那里得到的反应使他更有望成为英国保守党下一任领导人。 - Shortened the time to receive information release and, Avoid a lot of waste of resources.
缩短了信息发布和接收时间,避免了许多资源的浪费。