shortens
英 [ˈʃɔːtnz]
美 [ˈʃɔːrtnz]
v. (使)变短,缩短
shorten的第三人称单数
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.- Smoking can shorten your life...
吸烟会缩短你的寿命。 - 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。 - When the days shorten in winter some people suffer depression.
冬季天短,有些人会变得抑郁消沉。
- Smoking can shorten your life...
- V-ERG 缩短…的长度;(物体)变短
If youshortenan object or if itshortens, it becomes smaller in length.- 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。 - 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。
- Her father paid £1,000 for an operation to shorten her nose...
- VERB 缩写,缩短(名字等)
If youshortena name or other word, you change it by removing some of the letters.- 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)。
- Originally called Lili, she eventually shortened her name to Lee.
- toshorten the odds→ see:odds
双语例句
- Friction wears away metal in the moving parts, which shortens their working life.
运动部件间的摩擦力使金属磨损,这就缩短了运动部件的使用寿命。 - Through this, it not only guarantees the performance, but also raises working efficiency greatly and shortens the production cycle.
既保证了产品的质量,还大大地提高了制造生产率,缩短了产品更新的周期。 - The setting up of the fire path not only increases the heating area of the pot, but also saves the energy resource and shortens the service life.
火道的设立不仅增加了锅的受热面积,同时又节省了能源,缩短了使用时间。 - This gives them context, and it shortens the time necessary to switch from one task to another.
这赋予他们一定的背景,并缩短了从一项任务转向另一项任务所需要的时间。 - Shade reduces the efficiency of photovoltaic system and shortens the lifetime of photovoltaic modules because of hot spot.
遮阴现象降低光伏发电系统发电效率,并且导致光伏模块产生热斑效应而缩短寿命。 - One who shortens or condenses a written work.
一个缩短或浓缩书面作业的人。 - There is an increasingly common view that internet use shortens a person's attention span.
一个日益普遍的看法是,互联网的使用缩短了人们的注意力持续时间。 - Communication shortens the distance.
通讯缩短了距离。 - Test shows this method which shortens the operation time greatly and reads target image height accurately improves the precision of range estimation.
实验统计分析表明此方法大大缩短了距离估算操作时间,实现了跟踪目标像高的准确读取,从而提高了距离估算的准确度。 - It both shortens technological path, lowers cost and avoids harmful influence due to adding alkali for saponification.
又避免了因加碱皂化带来的不利影响。