shortens

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

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shortens双解释义

shortens

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

v.(动词)

vt. & vi. (使)变短 to become shorter

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 indelicate;

"bowdlerize a novel"

shortens词语用法

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v.(动词)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。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。 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 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。

～+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

shortens近义词

abbreviate abridge cut curtail contract reduce condense compress diminish cut down telescope cut back truncate take up shrink lessen limit retrench dock decrease trim synopsize clip summarize edit narrow brief breviate digest prune shear pollard lop slash down simplify boil down cut short short stunt lower boil castrate expurgate bowdlerise foreshorten bowdlerize lengthen