shorten是什么意思_shorten英文意思_翻译_例句

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
new

shorten的英文翻译是什么意思，意思释义：

详尽释义

v.

(动词)

缩短使松脆变短变小弄短缩小减少收（帆）缩（帆）给（脱去长的婴孩服）改穿短衣收缩短接使变短使不足在…上加起酥油使更少

双解释义

v.

(动词)

vt. & vi. (使)变短 to become shorter

英英释义

Verb:make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration;

"He shortened his trip due to illness"

reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;

"The manuscript must be shortened"

make short or shorter;

"shorten the skirt"
"shorten the rope by a few inches"

become short or shorter;

"In winter, the days shorten"

edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indepcate;

"bowdlerize a novel"

shorten的用法和例句：

例句

用作动词(v.)Ive asked him to shorten my trousers.
我让他把我的裤子弄短点。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。The days are beginning to shorten.
白天开始变短了。The vehicles that press down on a bridge's roadway compress the top half of the road, causing it to shorten pke 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 pfe 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pmit
限度retrench
减少开支dock
码头decrease
减少trim
修剪synopsize
给 ... 写提要(给...cpp
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simppfy
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

临近单词

shorthand
shortcut
shortend
shortener
shortening
shortensail
shortenings
shorten code
shorten word
shorten sail
shorten range
shorten sails