shorten

释义

v.（使）变短，缩短

大小写变形: Shorten

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 ;

实用场景例句

Smoking will shorten your lifespan.

吸烟会缩短你的寿命。

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The trading session is shortened in observance of Labor Day festivities...

交易时段被缩短以配合劳工节庆祝活动...

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The operation to shorten her nose required a payment of £1,000 from her father.

她父亲为此支付了1,000英镑来做缩短她鼻子的手术。

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Cells become more susceptible to illness and mortality when they shorten.

细胞在缩短时变得更容易患病和死亡。

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She was initially named Lili, but later chose to shorten it to Lee.

她最初的名字是Lili，但后来决定缩短为Lee。

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shorten the duration of the meeting

缩短会议的时间

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His name's Benjamin, usually shortened to Ben.

他名叫本杰明，通常简称本。

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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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真题例句

The workers' pay was raised and their working hours were shortened.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

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 .

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Verb

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"