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shortened

英 [ˈʃɔːtnd]

美 [ˈʃɔːrtnd]

v.  (使)变短,缩短
shorten的过去分词和过去式

过去分词:shortened 过去式:shortened 

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.
    1. Smoking can shorten your life...
      吸烟会缩短你的寿命。
    2. 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。
    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。
  • V-ERG 缩短…的长度;(物体)变短
    If youshortenan object or if itshortens, it becomes smaller in length.
    1. 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。
    2. 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。
  • VERB 缩写,缩短(名字等)
    If youshortena name or other word, you change it by removing some of the letters.
    1. 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)。
  • toshorten the odds→ see:odds

英英释义

adj

  • with parts removed
    1. the drastically cut film
    Synonym:cut
  • cut short
    1. a sawed-off shotgun
    2. a sawed-off broomstick
    3. the shortened rope was easier to use
    Synonym:sawed-offsawn-off
  • shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
    1. a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars
    2. years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream
    Synonym:telescoped
  • cut short in duration
    1. the abbreviated speech
    2. her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking
    3. an unsatisfactory truncated conversation
    Synonym:abbreviatedtruncated

双语例句

  • Can treatment regimens for a given disease be safely shortened and simplified?
    能否安全地缩短和简化针对特定疾病的治疗方案?
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • The coat shortened after washing.
    这件上衣水洗后变短了。
  • He shortened his trip due to illness.
    由于疾病他缩短了他的旅行期。
  • Their research showed that cells age if telomeres are shortened.
    他们的研究表明,细胞的年龄,如果端粒变短。
  • A hard life and a weak constitution shortened Robert Burns's life.
    艰辛的生活和虚弱的体质缩短了彭斯的生命。
  • Time to market for products and services is shortened and the cost of development and change process is reduced.
    缩短了产品和服务的上市时间,降低了开发与改变流程的成本。
  • Maybe it is because we shortened the pre-season this year and made it more intense.
    也许这是因为我们缩短了赛季前的休假并使季前赛事根剧烈所造成的。
  • Vacations have lengthened and the work week has shortened
    假期延长,工作周就缩短了。