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

• That affects your thinking and actually shortens your patience, particularly when you get covert support from others.
  这会影响到你的思考，减少你的耐心，尤其当你得到别人支持的掩护时。
• 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。
• Delivering working software early shortens the feedback loop between business and IT, allowing them to collaborate more effectively.
  及早交付可运行的软件缩短了业务和IT间的反馈周期，这使得他们能够更有效地协同合作。
• Shade reduces the efficiency of photovoltaic system and shortens the lifetime of photovoltaic modules because of hot spot.
  遮阴现象降低光伏发电系统发电效率，并且导致光伏模块产生热斑效应而缩短寿命。
• It both shortens technological path, lowers cost and avoids harmful influence due to adding alkali for saponification.
  又避免了因加碱皂化带来的不利影响。
• This in turn shortens the elapsed time required to deliver the system.
  这样同时也就缩短了系统交付时间。
• The adsorption equilibrium time shortens and the adsorption capacity and ratio decrease with temperature.
  温度升高，吸附平衡时间缩短，吸附量和吸附比下降。
• Friction wears away metal in the moving parts, which shortens their working life.
  运动部件间的摩擦力使金属磨损，这就缩短了运动部件的使用寿命。
• The new highway shortens the trip.
  新公路使旅程缩短了。
• 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。