详细释义
- 缩短
- 使松脆
- 变短
- 变小
- 弄短
- 缩小
- 减少
- 收（帆）
- 缩（帆）
- 给（脱去长的婴孩服）改穿短衣
- 收缩
- 短接
- 使变短
- 使不足
- 在…上加起酥油
- 使更少
v. (动词)
- vt. & vi. (使)变短 to become shorter
v. (动词)
英英释义
Verb:
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make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration;
"He shortened his trip due to illness"
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reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
"The manuscript must be shortened"
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make short or shorter;
"shorten the skirt"
"shorten the rope by a few inches"
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become short or shorter;
"In winter, the days shorten"
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edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
"bowdlerize a novel"
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》
- Ive asked him to shorten my trousers.
我让他把我的裤子弄短点。 - All you need to do is to shorten the 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 to shorten.
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 to shorten like 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。
用作动词 (v.)
- The 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。 - 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。
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- 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。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词
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用法讲解
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。
v. (动词)
- shorten, abbreviate, abridge, condense, contract
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- 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
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- 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.)
- shorten to (v.+prep.)
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(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。
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
- 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
相关词汇
- abbreviate 缩写
- abridge 删节
- cut 切
- curtail 缩减
- contract 合同
- reduce 减少
- condense 浓缩
- compress 压缩
- diminish 减少
- cut down 削减
- telescope 望远镜
- cut back 削减
- truncate 切去一端
- take up 拿起
- shrink 收缩
- lessen 减少
- limit 限度
- retrench 减少开支
- dock 码头
- decrease 减少
- trim 修剪
- synopsize 给 ... 写提要(给...
- clip 夹住
- summarize 概述
- edit 剪辑
- narrow 有限的
- brief 短暂的
- breviate 缩简
- digest 摘要
- prune 修剪
- shear 修剪
- pollard 截去枝梢的树...
- lop 剪去(树枝)
- slash 猛砍
- down 向下
- simplify 简化
- boil down 浓缩
- cut short 中断
- short 短的
- stunt 特技
- lower 低的
- boil 沸腾
- castrate 阉割
- expurgate 净化
- bowdlerise 删除文句
- foreshorten 按照透视法画...
- bowdlerize 删改
- lengthen 加长
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