词汇搭配
用作动词 (v.)
～+名词- shorten sails收帆减速
- shorten a skirt将裙子改短
- shorten the span缩短时间
～+介词- shorten by cold遇冷会缩短
- shorten sth by an inch把某物缩短一英寸
- shorten into缩短为
- shorten to压缩到
同近义词辨析
shorten, abridge, abbreviate, cut
这组词都有“缩短”的意思，其区别是：
abridge多指对书籍的删节或缩短，删去不重要部分而保存其精华。
abbreviate指省去应有的或后续的部分，从而使整体缩短。也可指缩短时间。
双语例句
用作动词(v.)
- Ive asked him to shorten my trousers.
我让他把我的裤子弄短点。 - All you need to do is to shorten the sleeves of the dress instead of picking the whole thing apart.
你要做的只是将袖子弄短，而不是将整件衣服拆开。 - The days are beginning to shorten.
白天开始变短了。 - The vehicles that press down on a bridge's roadway compress the top half of the road, causing it to shorten like a compressed spring.
那些从桥上过压紧桥面的车辆会导致路面上半部分的压缩，使其想被压缩的弹簧一样变短。
权威例句
Telomeres shorten during ageing of human fibroblasts.Perioperative Normothermia to Reduce the Incidence of Surgical-Wound Infection and Shorten Hospitalization — NEJMPerioperative normothermia to reduce the incidence of surgical wound infection and shorten hospitalization : Kurz A, Sessler DI, Len...Use of Procalcitonin to Shorten Antibiotic Treatment Duration in Septic PatientsCombinations of R207910 with Drugs Used To Treat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Have the Potential To Shorten Treatment DurationStability Criteria for Switched and Hybrid SystemsH-TCP: TCP for high-speed and long-distance networksOn the interpretation and identification of dynamic Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy modelsExperimental evaluation of TCP protocols for high-speed networksThe velocity of unloaded shortening and its relation to sarcomere length and isometric force in vertebrate muscle fibres.
