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

v.(动词)

1. vt. & vi. (使)变短 to become shorter

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"
   

1.(使)时间变短;缩短(…的时间)
If youshorten an 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.

e.g. Smoking canshorten your life...
吸烟会缩短你的寿命。
e.g. 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。

2.缩短…的长度;(物体)变短
If youshorten an object or if itshortens, it becomes smaller in length.

e.g. Her father paid £1,000 for an operation toshorten her nose...
她父亲花了 1,000 英镑给她做了削鼻手术。
e.g. As theyshorten, 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。

3.缩写,缩短(名字等)
If youshorten a name or other word, you change it by removing some of the letters.

shorten的解释

e.g. 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)。

4. toshorten the odds -> see odds

1. 缩短：庄家一般来讲,当他发现赌资的比重分布不均匀时,都会用降低赔率价格(或者说是缩短(shorten)赔率)来达到阻碍更多的赌资的加入. 但是,在如上的情况下,庄家是没有啥办法来调控了,除非他宣布不再接受新的赌注了,

2. 减低......效能：settle 解决(问题等) |shorten 减低......效能 | show 显示,表明

Injury problems could shorten his career.

受伤的问题有可能缩短他的职业生涯。

a shortened version of the game

简化了的比赛

Her name's Katherine, generally shortened to Kay.

她名叫凯瑟琳，通常简称凯。

In November the temperatures drop and the days shorten.

十一月气温下降，白天变短。

Smoking can shorten your life...

吸烟会缩短你的寿命。

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。

Her father paid 'u00a31,000 for an operation to shorten her nose...

她父亲花了 1,000 英镑给她做了削鼻手术。

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。

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)。

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.

In ascension, you shorten the delay in time.

在提升中, 你缩短了时间中的延迟.

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.

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.

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.

We can shorten the sleeves a bit.

我们可以把袖子稍微收进一点.

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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cheerful company shorten the mile.

谈笑风生,缩短旅程.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Smoking is tantamount to squandering their health and shorten their lives.

吸烟就等于挥霍自己的健康,缩短自己的生命.

Super classic PB on controls, if flexible, can improve the code utilization, shorten development time.

超级经典PB日控件, 若能灵活, 能提高代码利用率, 缩短开发时间.

用作不及物动词S+～(+A)

1. The days shorten in winter.
   冬天昼短。
2. The days are rapidly shortening.
   白昼正在很快变短。
3. The coat shortened after washing.
   这件上衣水洗后变短了。

用作及物动词S+～+ n./pron.

1. Can you shorten this dress for me?
   你能为我把这条连衣裙改短吗?
2. The new highway shortens the trip.
   新公路缩短旅程。
3. They shortened the journey by telling stories.
   他们讲故事来消磨旅途时间。
4. 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?
5. 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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6. It is suggested that the steel pipe should be shortened.
   有人提议把这根钢管切短。
7. His life was shortened by trouble.
   他的寿命因烦劳而缩短了。
8. Their pleasures were shortened by the bad weather.
   他们因天气不好而兴致不高了。

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。

～+名词

• shorten%20sails">shorten sails收帆减速
• shorten%20a%20skirt">shorten a skirt将裙子改短
• shorten%20the%20span">shorten the span缩短时间

～+介词

• shorten%20by%20cold">shorten by cold遇冷会缩短
• shorten%20sth%20by%20an%20inch">shorten sth by an inch把某物缩短一英寸
• shorten%20into">shorten into缩短为
• shorten%20to">shorten to压缩到

• 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

v.(动词)

1. 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。
2. 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

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

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。