英语释义

• become short or shorter;

  "In winter, the days shorten"

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;

  "The manuscript must be shortened"

• edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;

  "bowdlerize a novel"

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

  "He shortened his trip due to illness"

• make short or shorter;

  "shorten the skirt"

  "shorten the rope by a few inches"

片语

shorten draw拉缩

Url Shorten链接缩短

shorten process缩短工艺

greatly shorten大大缩短

effectively shorten有效缩短

shorten to缩短……

weaken变弱；畏缩；变软弱

Shorten Lifespan缩短寿命

Bill Shorten比尔·肖滕

fall off减少；跌落；下降；离开；衰退

telescope叠套缩短；精简，压缩；（车）相撞而嵌进

shorten pull缩短划水路线

英汉例句

• another good reason to check with a doctor is that he or she may prescribe drugs that shorten the severity and duration of your symptoms.

  给医生打电话的另一个好处是他们会给你开药以减少你承受相关癥状的痛苦和时间。

• to shorten the entire test cycle, you can download a ready-to-use package containing both user space tool and kernel image.

  为了缩短整个测试周期，您可以下载同时包含有用户空间工具和内核映像的立即可用的程序包。

• this form, that allows doctors and nurses to look up patients by last name, will shorten manual search time.

  这个表单允许医生和护士按照姓氏查找患者，可以缩短手工搜索的时间。

• this new localism has made life more comfortable for dealers, because they have been able to shorten their supply chains.

  这种新的地方主义让毒品贩子活得更舒服了，因为他们能缩短供应链。

• focus on simplification, reducing choices for the customer rather than increasing them, and shorten the track from choice to purchase.

  因此，要着重于简化，减少而不是增加客户需要作出的选择，并且缩短从选择到购买的过程。

• stay low: shorten your running stride and keep your feet lower to the ground.

  保持低速：减少跑步步幅，保持双脚与地面的低距离。

• you only have to shorten the name you have.

  你只要缩短你的名字就好啦。

• these long silences are helpful in any postediting because they show very clearly the breaks between events, but, for the final version, shorten them to improve the pace of the final production.

  这些长长的静音在任何后期编辑中都是很有帮助的，因为它们清楚地显示了事件之间的分隔，但是对于最终的版本，应该缩短它们，以改善最终作品的间隔。

• unhappy, ill animals do not produce milk, so it「s not in the farm」s interests to mistreat them or shorten their lifespan.

  如果动物不开心、生了病，它们就不产奶，所以虐待动物或缩短它们的寿命并不符合农场的利益。

• you can use a mini-test harness to shorten some of the early tests and also gather verbose information on the system output.

  您可以使用小型测试工具来缩短一些早期测试的时间，还可以获得系统输出的详细信息。

• you also end up with a set of intermediate models that are completely reusable, and will shorten the process next time.

  你将以一系列的中间模型结束，他们都可以被再度使用，在下次开发中将会缩短过程的时间。

• as you can see, writing this way can be complicated, and you should have a good grasp of english before trying to shorten your messages.

  你可以看出来，用缩写的方式写短信会比较复杂，当你试着想缩短你的短信时，你应该先浏览一遍英文。

• if you write code that nondevelopers can read, you shorten the feedback loop between your team and the people who are requesting features.

  如果您编写非开发人员可以读懂的代码，那么就缩短了您的团队与请求相关代码功能的人之间的反馈环路。

• the xsl transforms provided with this article (see download) are an extension of an open source project i developed five years ago as an attempt to shorten both documentation and qa time.

  本文附带提供的xsl转换（参见 下载）是我五年前开发的一个开源项目的扩展，那时我旨在缩短文档化和qa时间。

• minor accidents can shorten the life of a car.

  小事故会缩短汽车寿命。

• test automation is often seen as a way to reduce the costs of testing, increase test coverage and effectiveness, and shorten testing cycles.

  测试自动化常常被当做减少测试成本、增加测试覆盖率和有效性、缩短测试周期的手段。

• often, this can also help lower development costs and shorten delivery time.

  通常，这还可以帮助降低开发成本和缩短发布时间。

• the study by 200 european experts says reactive nitrogen contributes to air pollution, fuels climate change and is estimated to shorten the life of the average resident by six months.

  这项由200位欧洲专家完成的研究表示，活性氮会导致空气污染，刺激气候变化，并预估将居民的平均寿命缩短六个月。

• since pdq priority uses more threads to process a query than the normal way, it will shorten data access time.

  因为pdq优先级使用比常规方法更多的线程来处理一个查询，所以它将缩短数据访问时间。

• depression can increase the risk of heart disease and may shorten life span.

  忧郁会增加心脏病的风险甚至有可能会减少寿命。

• he said: 「the result of these campaigns is to shorten judicial proceedings.

  他表示：“这些行动的结果就是缩短司法程序。

• 」there is no fault nor folly of my life,「 says mr. ruskin, 」that does not rise up against me, and take away my joy, and shorten my power of possession, of sight, of understanding.

  英国艺术批评家拉斯金曾说：“我的生活中没有什么错误或荒唐行为，能够使我亲痛仇快。我的快乐、财富、眼界和理解力从未因此而减少分毫。

• why not shorten the process and start with the story?

  为什么不缩短这个流程，从素材开始呢？

• certain treatments can help shorten the duration of symptoms of cold sores, when used at the first sign of an outbreak. other treatments can relieve symptoms.

  当首次出现癥状后，在发生的区域采取治疗措施可以缩短不适所持续的时间，还有其他的方法也可以缓解不适。

• he makes this distinction to note that while external quality can be lowered to shorten time-to-market, internal quality cannot.

  他这样加以区分，是为了说明想缩短市场投放时间，可以降低外部质量，但是决不能降低内部质量。

• the fact of having already utilized it will allow me to shorten my argument and to sum it up without delay in a particular example.

  事实上，因为我们已经采用了这种方面，论述也会就此而缩短，我们只需要用一个特殊的例子便能加以总结。

• in more serious cases, the disease can hinder a person's mobility and even shorten his or her life.

  在一些更加严重的病例中，这种病会阻碍病人的行动，甚至缩短病人的生命。

相似词

limit限制；限定

retrench节省；紧缩

trim整齐的；身材苗条的

lessen减少；减轻；变小

down(Down) （美）唐（人名）

cut缩减的；割下的；雕过的

shrink收缩；畏缩；（非正式）精神病医生，精神病学家，心理学家

contract收缩，缩短；感染；订约；订（婚）；负（债）；结交

dock入船坞

clip（塑料或金属的）夹子；回纹针；修剪；剪报

short短；缺乏；短路；短裤

decrease减少，减小；减少量；减少过程

reduce减少；缩小；归纳为

diminish减少，缩小；变小

prune(Prune)人名；(罗)普鲁内

pollard截去树梢的树；角被割下的动物

slash猛砍；严厉批评

lop(lop) 剪下的树枝

curtail缩减；剪短；剥夺…特权等

shear切变

shrink收缩；畏缩；（非正式）精神病医生，精神病学家，心理学家

compress压缩，压紧；精简

edit编辑；校订

abridge删节；缩短；节略

synopsize写…的梗概；作…的提要

summarize作总结；作概括

condense使浓缩；使压缩

abbreviate使用缩写词

brief简短的，简洁的；短暂的，草率的

boil煮沸，（使）沸腾，达到沸点；用沸水煮或烫洗；对……施以烹刑；翻腾；发火

digest文摘；摘要

narrow使变狭窄

down(Down) （美）唐（人名）

breviate缩简

simplify简化；使单纯；使简易

telescope叠套缩短；精简，压缩；（车）相撞而嵌进

相反词

lengthen延长；变长

expand发展；张开，展开

extend延伸；扩大；伸展；使疏开

lengthen延长；变长

prolong延长；拖延

protract延长；绘制；伸展（身体部位）