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

• The innovative design, the superior quality, greatly reduces the installation cost, shortens the installation time and increase the lifespan of the system.
  新颖的设计，一流的质量。大大降低了安装成本，缩短了安装时间，增加了系统的使用寿命。
• There is an increasingly common view that internet use shortens a person's attention span.
  一个日益普遍的看法是，互联网的使用缩短了人们的注意力持续时间。
• The utility model shortens the operation time, reduces the damage of radiation to the operator and the patient, and improves operation success rate.
  使用本导管，缩短了手术时间，减少了放射线对医疗手术者和患者的损伤，提高了手术成功率。
• 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。
• Communication shortens the distance.
  通讯缩短了距离。
• "Cyber language is more vivid and it shortens people` s distances," he said.
  他表示：网络语言更为生动鲜活，从而缩短了人与人之间的距离。
• 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。
• 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。
• Test shows this method which shortens the operation time greatly and reads target image height accurately improves the precision of range estimation.
  实验统计分析表明此方法大大缩短了距离估算操作时间，实现了跟踪目标像高的准确读取，从而提高了距离估算的准确度。
• The new highway shortens the trip.
  新公路使旅程缩短了。