shorten

英 ['ʃɔːtn] 美 ['ʃɔːrtn]

• v. 弄短；变短

名词: shortener 过去式: shortened 过去分词: shortened 现在分词: shortening 第三人称单数: shortens

shorten的英文翻译是什么意思，词典释义与在线翻译：

详尽释义

v. (动词)

1. 缩短
2. 使松脆
3. 变短
4. 变小
5. 弄短
6. 缩小
7. 减少
8. 收（帆）
9. 缩（帆）
10. 给（脱去长的婴孩服）改穿短衣
11. 收缩
12. 短接
13. 使变短
14. 使不足
15. 在…上加起酥油
16. 使更少

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. (使)变短 to become shorter

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"
   

shorten的用法和样例：

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. Ive asked him to shorten my trousers.
   我让他把我的裤子弄短点。
2. 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。
3. The days are beginning to shorten.
   白天开始变短了。
4. 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。

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

shorten to (v.+prep.)

(使)压缩到… (cause sth to) become shorter to
shorten sth to sth

Shorten the report to 2000 words.

把这份报告压缩到2000字。

词汇搭配

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

～+介词

• 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

经典引文

• 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的相关资料：

近反义词

【近义词】

• 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

【反义词】

• lengthen 加长