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

• Corrugation causes increased noise and higher maintenance costs while RCF shortens rail life and is a constant safety issue.
  波纹磨损会导致噪音增大和维护费用上升，而RCF则缩短了钢轨的寿命并引起长期的安全隐患。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Providing access to enterprise applications in this way shortens the migration to a Linux desktop.
  以这种方式提供对企业应用程序的访问可以缩短迁移到Linux桌面的过程。
• The practice proves that the query system meets the requirement of expansibility, configurability and manageability, and shortens the period of development.
  实践证明，该系统具有一定的可配置性、扩展性和易管理性，缩短了系统开发的周期。
• 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。
• 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。
• "Cyber language is more vivid and it shortens people` s distances," he said.
  他表示：网络语言更为生动鲜活，从而缩短了人与人之间的距离。
• 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。