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.
  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

双语例句

• 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。
• The design of the simulation system shortens the engineering debug time, provides guarantee for evening data collection and storage.
  模拟器的设计缩短了工程上的调试时间，为后期的采集和存储等处理提供了保证。
• The test shortens the structure of floatation process of hematite, and reduces the consumption of reagent.
  试验缩短了赤铁矿浮选的流程结构，同时降低了药剂用量。
• This also means that it consumes extra lace and therefore shortens the lace ends by a little more.
  这也意味着，它消耗额外的花边，因此缩短了花边的两端多一点。
• Over time, this telomerase dwindles and eventually the telomere shortens and the cell becomes inactive.
  随着时间延长，端粒末端酶会减少，最终端粒也会缩短，细胞就不能继续分裂。
• Delivering working software early shortens the feedback loop between business and IT, allowing them to collaborate more effectively.
  及早交付可运行的软件缩短了业务和IT间的反馈周期，这使得他们能够更有效地协同合作。
• Updating the view locally on the client saves round trips to the server, shortens response time by orders of magnitude, and dramatically improves the user experience.
  更新客户机本地视图省去了往返服务器的过程，缩短了几个数量级的响应时间，而且极大地改善了用户体验。
• This drastically shortens the time required for sample preparation while improving the decomposition quality.
  从而大幅度地降低了样品制备时间并且提高了消解品质。
• 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。
• One who shortens or condenses a written work.
  一个缩短或浓缩书面作业的人。