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v.
(動詞)
- vt. & vi. (使)變短 to become shorter
v.
動詞
- 縮短
- 使松脆
- 變短
- 變小
- 弄短
- 縮小
- 減少
- 收（帆）
- 縮（帆）
- 給（脫去長的嬰孩服）改穿短衣
- 收縮
- 短接
- 使變短
- 使不足
- 在…上加起酥油
- 使更少
Verb:
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make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration;
"He shortened his trip due to illness"
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reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
"The manuscript must be shortened"
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make short or shorter;
"shorten the skirt"
"shorten the rope by a few inches"
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become short or shorter;
"In winter, the days shorten"
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edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
"bowdlerize a novel"
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用作動詞 (v.)
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Ive asked him to shorten my trousers.
我讓人把你的牛仔褲弄短點。
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All you need to do is to shorten the sleeves of the dress instead of picking the whole thing apart.
你想要做的只不過是將褲腿弄短，而非是將整件t恤拆開來。
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The days are beginning to shorten.
白天黑夜逐漸開始太短了。
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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.
那方面從橋學過壓緊路的配送車輛會出現路上半部位的壓縮成視頻，使其想被壓縮成視頻的壓簧同樣減短。
用作動詞 (v.)
應用于抵不過物動名詞
S+～(+A)
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The days shorten in winter.
夏天晝短。
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The days are rapidly shortening.
日晝未能較快縮短。
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The coat shortened after washing.
有件長褲機洗后太短了。
應用于及物詞組
S+～+ n./pron.
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Can you shorten this dress for me?
你想為你把這件連褲裙改短嗎?
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The new highway shortens the trip.
新農村公路減短幸福的旅程。
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They shortened the journey by telling stories.
兩人學習知識故事來虛度路途的時間。
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The letter is too long.Can you shorten it a little?
這信很長了,你是否是把它改短一些?
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The bill is intended to shorten the arm of the Opposition.
任何總統令的效果內在規定發對黨的實力。
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It is suggested that the steel pipe should be shortened.
有人會建議把這一根螺旋鋼管切短。
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His life was shortened by trouble.
他的期限因煩勞而減少了。
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Their pleasures were shortened by the bad weather.
大家 因氣候難而勁頭不太高了。
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He was going to shorten the proposed two months into six weeks.
出至： J. Galsworthy
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I've had my fur coat shortened.
選自： J. Rhys
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Driving a cab tends to shorten your life span.
選自： S. Terkel
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用作動詞 (v.)
- shorten to (v.+prep.)
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(使)壓縮到… (cause sth to) become shorter to
shorten sth to sth
Shorten the report to 2000 words.
把這份報告壓縮到2000字。
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v. (動詞)
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shorten的基本意思是“(使)變短”,指縮減其長度或持續時間,有時不是實際地縮短,而只是表面感覺上的縮短。
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shorten可用作及物動詞,也可用作不及物動詞。用作及物動詞時接名詞或代詞作賓語。
v. (動詞)
- shorten, abbreviate, abridge, condense, contract
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- 這組詞用于字詞、段落、章節等時,都含有“刪減”或“精簡”的意思。它們的區別在于:
- 1.abridge, condense和shorten都可指壓縮文章、著作的篇幅而內容不變, abridge比shorten更文雅; abbreviate主要用于刪除音節、字母或單詞而保留詞頭; contract通常指省略單詞的中間部分,不包括只保留詞頭的詞。
- 2.表示“縮略成…”時, abbreviate, condense, contract和shorten常與介詞to搭配; condense也常與介詞into搭配。
- shorten，abbreviate，abridge，cut
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- 這些動詞均含有“縮短”之意。
- shorten通常指縮短時間、尺寸或過程。
- abbreviate指省去應有的或后續的部分，從而使整體縮短。也可指縮短時間。
- abridge多指對書籍的刪節或縮短，刪去不重要部分而保存其精華。
- cut普通用詞，指任何縮短而縮減的過程。
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