shortened

英 [ˈʃɔːtnd]

美 [ˈʃɔːrtnd]

v.  (使)变短，缩短
shorten的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：shortened　过去式：shortened　

BNC.20084 / COCA.19816

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)时间变短;缩短(…的时间)
  If youshortenan 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.
  1. Smoking can shorten your life...
     吸烟会缩短你的寿命。
  2. 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。
  3. When the days shorten in winter some people suffer depression.
     冬季天短，有些人会变得抑郁消沉。
• V-ERG 缩短…的长度;(物体)变短
  If youshortenan object or if itshortens, it becomes smaller in length.
  1. Her father paid £1,000 for an operation to shorten her nose...
     她父亲花了 1,000 英镑给她做了削鼻手术。
  2. 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。
• VERB 缩写,缩短(名字等)
  If youshortena name or other word, you change it by removing some of the letters.
  1. 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)。
• toshorten the odds→ see:odds

英英释义

adj

• with parts removed
  1. the drastically cut film
  Synonym:cut
• cut short
  1. a sawed-off shotgun
  2. a sawed-off broomstick
  3. the shortened rope was easier to use
  Synonym:sawed-offsawn-off
• shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
  1. a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars
  2. years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream
  Synonym:telescoped
• cut short in duration
  1. the abbreviated speech
  2. her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking
  3. an unsatisfactory truncated conversation
  Synonym:abbreviatedtruncated

双语例句

• A hard life and a weak constitution shortened Robert Burns's life.
  艰辛的生活和虚弱的体质缩短了彭斯的生命。
• The coat shortened after washing.
  这件上衣水洗后变短了。
• 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。
• His reception there shortened the odds that he might be the next Tory leader.
  他在那里得到的反应使他更有望成为英国保守党下一任领导人。
• The skirts were shortened an inch or two.
  这些裙子被改短了一两英寸。
• To resolve the problem, we changed the stain gauge arrangement and shortened the distance used for strain measurement.
  为了解决这个问题，我们改变了应变仪配置，缩短了用于应变测量的距离。
• Low concentration and shortened time of trypsin digestion and mechanical dissociation were adopted to conduct culture.
  方法：采用低浓度、短时间胰酶消化和机械分离相结合的方法制备皮层神经元悬液，进行培养。
• Transaction duration can be shortened by investing in network configuration, hardware, and software.
  通过对网络配置、硬件和软件进行优化，可以缩短事务持续时间。
• The new equipment and technologies have dramatically increased the reliability of satellite launches and greatly shortened the time for launch preparation.
  新的技术和设备极大的提高了卫星发射的可靠性，也大大的缩短了发射准备时间。
• 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）。