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shorten的英文翻譯是什麼意思，詞典釋義與在線翻譯：
詳盡釋義
v. (動詞)
- 縮短
- 使鬆脆
- 變短
- 變小
- 弄短
- 縮小
- 減少
- 收（帆）
- 縮（帆）
- 給（脫去長的嬰孩服）改穿短衣
- 收縮
- 短接
- 使變短
- 使不足
- 在…上加起酥油
- 使更少
雙解釋義
v. (動詞)
- vt. & vi. (使)變短 to become shorter
英英釋義
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"
shorten的用法和樣例：
例句
用作動詞 (v.)
- Ive asked him to shorten my trousers.
我讓他把我的褲子弄短點。 - All you need to do is to shorten the sleeves of the dress instead of picking the whole thing apart.
你要做的只是將袖子弄短，而不是將整件衣服拆開。 - The days are beginning to shorten.
白天開始變短了。 - 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.
那些從橋上過壓緊橋面的車輛會導致路面上半部分的壓縮，使其想被壓縮的彈簧一樣變短。
常用短語
用作動詞 (v.)
- shorten to (v.+prep.)
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(使)壓縮到… (cause sth to) become shorter to
shorten sth to sthShorten the report to 2000 words.
把這份報告壓縮到2000字。
辭彙搭配
用作動詞 (v.)
～+名詞
- shorten sails 收帆減速
- shorten a skirt 將裙子改短
- shorten the span 縮短時間
- shorten by cold 遇冷會縮短
- shorten sth by an inch 把某物縮短一英寸
- shorten into 縮短為
- shorten to 壓縮到
經典引文
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He was going to shorten the proposed two months into six weeks.
出自： J. Galsworthy -
I've had my fur coat shortened.
出自： J. Rhys -
Driving a cab tends to shorten your life span.
出自： S. Terkel
shorten的相關資料：
近反義詞
【近義詞】
- abbreviate 縮寫
- abridge 刪節
- cut 切
- curtail 縮減
- contract 合同
- reduce 減少
- condense 濃縮
- compress 壓縮
- diminish 減少
- cut down 削減
- telescope 望遠鏡
- cut back 削減
- truncate 切去一端
- take up 拿起
- shrink 收縮
- lessen 減少
- limit 限度
- retrench 減少開支
- dock 碼頭
- decrease 減少
- trim 修剪
- synopsize 給 ... 寫提要(給...
- clip 夾住
- summarize 概述
- edit 剪輯
- narrow 有限的
- brief 短暫的
- breviate 縮簡
- digest 摘要
- prune 修剪
- shear 修剪
- pollard 截去枝梢的樹...
- lop 剪去(樹枝)
- slash 猛砍
- down 向下
- simplify 簡化
- boil down 濃縮
- cut short 中斷
- short 短的
- stunt 特技
- lower 低的
- boil 沸騰
- castrate 閹割
- expurgate 凈化
- bowdlerise 刪除文句
- foreshorten 按照透視法畫...
- bowdlerize 刪改
【反義詞】
- lengthen 加長
