英语释义

• act of decreasing in length;

  "the dress needs shortening"

• fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods

片语

shortening period[生理]

Levator shortening提上睑肌缩短术

Emulsify Shortening乳化油

Shortening Oil起酥油

Channel shortening沟道缩短

shortening amplitude缩短幅值

shortening reaction缩短反应

heat shortening热收缩

vegetable shortening植物起酥油；植物油制起酥油

shortening distance缩短距离

英汉例句

• it「s not easy to strike the right balance between 「protecting」 people」s sensibilities and telling them hard facts about their personal behaviours that are ultimately shortening their lives.

  做到既要顾及人们的感受，又要让他们知晓其个人行为会终究让其缩短寿命，真不是一件容易的事。

• other ways to get value for money include shortening your holiday, we have a range of 10- and 11-night holidays, if 14 nights is over your budget.

  其它省钱的办法包括缩短你的度假时间；如果14晚的假期超出你的预算，我们还提供了一系列10晚到11晚的度假产品。

• shortening your stride will prevent your feet from landing in front of your body, which causes the muscles of your lower leg, specifically your knees and shins, to have to pull your body forward.

  缩短你的跨步可以防止你的脚在你身体前方着地，这也是你的小腿，尤其是膝盖和胫部的肌肉把你身体拉向前的原因。

• reuse was always one of the ways of improving implementation of new applications and shortening development cycle.

  重用始终是改善新应用程序的实现和缩短开发周期的方法之一。

• with the shortening of the payment period under agenda 2010, joblessness has fallen by more than average among older workers during the economic upswing.

  2010改革法实施以来，由于缩短了失业救济的发放期限，在经济增长的同时年长工人的失业率的下降已超过平均水平。

• some have even blamed the psychological effect of shortening days.

  有人甚至将其归咎于白昼缩短带来的心理影响。

• shortening has its critics. it can slow down the web.

  缩短业务有批评的声音：它会让网络变慢。

• it’s worth noting that echinacea shouldn’t be used for preventing a cold, but rather just for shortening the duration of cold symptoms.

  值得一提的是紫锥菊并不能用了治疗感冒，它只是缩短了感冒癥状的持续时间。

• 「people should get as many hours sleep as they need to feel rested,」 kripke says, adding that there「s no proof that shortening sleep will lengthen life.

  「人们应该睡足他们需要休息的时间，」克里普卡说。 他还补充说，没有证据证明缩短睡眠时间能够延长寿命。

• today, it connects billions of devices and billions of people. it moves information at ever-increasing speeds along a nearly infinite set of pathways, shortening distances and eliminating borders.

  如今，互联网连接着数十亿的设备和人员，沿着几乎是无数条路径以不断加快的速度传递着信息，从而缩短了距离，取消了国界。

• the aerial can be adjusted to the frequency of those signals by lengthening or shortening the spout.

  靠加长或缩短这根水柱，天线就能调节到相应的信号频率。

• however, this operation is equivalent to the treasury shortening the maturity of its outstanding debt.

  然而，这操作等价于财政部缩短流通债券的到期日。

• the plan may not look revolutionary. but it breaks a cherished french pattern of progressively shortening the amount of time people spend at work.

  表面上看，这个提案没有很大革新，但它打破了法国人很在意的积极争取缩短工作时间的愿望。

• because source code is available, they can be effective hackers. this can be tremendously useful for shortening debugging time.

  因为可以获得源代码，大家的工作会更加卓有成效，这可以有效的缩短调试时间。

• dr. gross said there won」t be any practical consequences from the shortening of our day.

  格罗斯博士说一天时间的缩短不会带来任何实际后果。

• in 1963 the mississippi river–gulf outlet, a ship channel shortening the passage to the gulf by 40 miles (64 km), was opened to maritime traffic.

  1963年密西西比河和海湾地区，一条缩短了驶入海湾约40英里（64千米）的航程的新航道对海上运输开放。

• such shortening is part of a cell's aging process, and since cancer cells keep dividing forever, the whitehead group reasoned that making human cells more mouselike might also make them cancerous.

  而这种变短正是细胞老化过程的一部分。由于癌细胞不断分裂，白首研究小组推理认为，如果使人体细胞变的像老鼠细胞，那就有可能使它们成为癌细胞。

• the discoveries had a major impact within the scientific community, and many scientists speculate that telomere shortening could be the reason for ageing.

  这些发现在科学界内产生了重大影响，许多科学家推测，端粒缩短可能是人类衰老的原因。

• but higher corporate costs are passed down the line, often in terms of hiring fewer americans or shortening their stay abroad.

  但公司已经在缩减高昂的成本，通常是减少雇用的美国人，或是缩短他们派驻海外的时间。

相似词

contraction收缩，紧缩；缩写式；害病

compression压缩，浓缩；压榨，压迫

abbreviation缩写；缩写词

oil融化；加燃油