英汉词典

shorten 基本解释

• vt. 缩短；减少；变短
• vi. 缩短；变短

shorten 词态变化

shorten 中文词源

来自 short,短的，-en,使。

shorten 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."

shorten 英文释义

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"

shorten 同义词解析

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。

shorten 双语例句

1. 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。

来自柯林斯例句

2. 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。

来自柯林斯例句

3. When the days shorten in winter some people suffer depression.

冬季天短，有些人会变得抑郁消沉。

来自柯林斯例句

4. Injury problems could shorten his career.

受伤的问题有可能缩短他的职业生涯。

来自《权威词典》

5. Minor accidents can shorten the life of a car.

小事故会缩短汽车寿命.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

shorten 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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