• 基础释义
  • 例句
  • 六级真题
  • 柯林斯词典释义
  • 英英词典释义
例句
英语六级真题
    The workers' pay was raised and their working hours were shortened.
    出自-2010年6月听力原文
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
  • V-ERG
    (使)时间变短;缩短(…的时间)
    If you shorten an event or the length of time that something lasts, or if it shortens, it does not last as long as it would otherwise do or as it used to do.
    例句
    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。
  • V-ERG
    缩短…的长度;(物体)变短
    If you shorten an object or if it shortens, it becomes smaller in length.
    例句
    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。
  • VERB
    缩写,缩短(名字等)
    If you shorten a name or other word, you change it by removing some of the letters.
    例句
    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)。
英英词典释义
  • Adjective
    1. cut short;
    "a sawed-off shotgun""a sawed-off broomstick""the shortened rope was easier to use"
    2. cut short in duration;
    "the abbreviated speech""a curtailed visit""her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking""an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
    3. shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another;
    "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars""years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
    4. with parts removed;
    "the drastically cut film"