shortens是什么意思
2024-01-05 13:17:17
shortens
v. 弄短；变短
名词：shortener 过去式：shortened 过去分词：shortened 现在分词：shortening 第三人称单数：shortens
近义词：abbreviate，abridge，cut，curtail，contract，reduce，condense，compress，diminish，cutdown，telescope，cutback，truncate，takeup，shrink，lessen，limit，retrench，dock，decrease，trim，synopsize，clip，summarize，edit，narrow，brief，breviate，digest，prune，shear，pollard，lop，slash，down，simplify，boildown，cutshort，short，stunt，lower，boil，castrate，expurgate，bowdlerise，foreshorten，bowdlerize，lengthen，
详细释义
v.(动词)
- 缩短
- 使松脆
- 变短
- 变小
- 弄短
- 缩小
- 减少
- 收（帆）
- 缩（帆）
- 给（脱去长的婴孩服）改穿短衣
- 收缩
- 短接
- 使变短
- 使不足
- 在…上加起酥油
- 使更少
双解释义
v.(动词)
- vt. & vi. (使)变短 to become shorter
英英释义
Verb
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration;
"He shortened his trip due to illness"
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
"The manuscript must be shortened"
- make short or shorter;
"shorten the skirt" "shorten the rope by a few inches"
- become short or shorter;
"In winter, the days shorten"
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
"bowdlerize a novel"
组词搭配
～+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
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 bridges 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。
词语用法
v.(动词)
- shorten的基本意思是“(使)变短”,指缩减其长度或持续时间,有时不是实际地缩短,而只是表面感觉上的缩短。 shorten可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时接名词或代词作宾语。