shortening
英 [ˈʃɔːtnɪŋ]
美 [ˈʃɔːrtnɪŋ]
n. (制作油酥点心用的)起酥油
v. (使)变短，缩短
shorten的现在分词
现在分词：shortening 复数：shortenings
BNC.33129 / COCA.25891
牛津词典
noun
- （制作油酥点心用的）起酥油
fat that is used for making pastry
柯林斯词典
- (和面团时用的)酥油，起酥油
Shorteningis cooking fat that you use with flour in order to make pastry or dough.
英英释义
noun
- act of decreasing in length
- the dress needs shortening
- fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods
双语例句
- The distance becomes shortening a lot.
距离变近了很多。 - Future research should target shortening process and reducing pollution, particularly the discharge of carbon during the recovery process.
今后的研究方向应是缩短工艺流程，减少环境污染，尤其要减少回收过程中的碳排放。 - Ensure all test specifications are written and displayed in the same format, shortening spec review time.
确保所有测试规范都以相同的格式编写和显示，以缩短规范的审查时间。 - And finally, this paper puts forward some countermeasures of reducing or shortening the lovelorn process.
最后根据信任的特性提出了消除或缩短失恋过程的一些对策。 - You may be having extra cash at some point of time prompting you to shortening the loan duration.
你可能有一些额外的现金促使你点时间缩短贷款期限。 - The aerial can be adjusted to the frequency of those signals by lengthening or shortening the spout.
靠加长或缩短这根水柱，天线就能调节到相应的信号频率。 - It has been shortening the service life of mines because of their low recovery ratio.
乡镇煤矿资源回收率低，严重缩短了矿井的服务年限。 - Continuously improvement in shortening the order leadtime and purchasing method.
持续改进，不断探讨订货周期的缩短及订货方式的改进。 - Shortening period of product life cycle requires companies to accelerate their technological upgrading.
第二，产品生命周期的缩短，要求企业必须加速技术更新。 - Software reuse is one of the important methods for improving software quality and shortening software developing period.
软件复用技术是提高软件开发质量，缩短软件开发周期的重要方法之一。