及物/不及物动词缩短，变短
shorten
及物动词
1. The new highway shortens the trip.
新公路使旅程缩短了。
1. 缩短：庄家一般来讲,当他发现赌资的比重分布不均匀时,都会用降低赔率价格(或者说是缩短(Shorten)赔率)来达到阻碍更多的赌资的加入. 但是,在如上的情况下,庄家是没有啥办法来调控了,除非他宣布不再接受新的赌注了,
2. 减低......效能：settle 解决(问题等) | shorten 减低......效能 | show 显示,表明
1. (使)时间变短;缩短(…的时间)
If you shorten an event or the length of time that something lasts, or if it shortens, it does not last as long as it would otherwise do or as it used to do.
e.g. Smoking can shorten your life...
吸烟会缩短你的寿命。
e.g. 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。
2. 缩短…的长度;(物体)变短
If you shorten an object or if it shortens, it becomes smaller in length.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
3. 缩写,缩短(名字等)
If you shorten a name or other word, you change it by removing some of the letters.
e.g. 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)。
4. to shorten the odds -> see odds
1. To shorten the period of adapting to a new environment, some foreign companies entering the mainland will acquire existing business entities instead of investing directly.
2. Ma said the bureau will shorten the time gap in monthly data collation and publication from 2011.
3. Market hearsay last week suggested the NDRC may shorten the calculation period for adjusting domestic gasoline and diesel prices to fewer than 22 days.
4. Zhao said China will improve the data collection on the Singapore, Rotterdam and New York markets and shorten the period of prices adjustment.
5. A bill asking the administration to shorten the moratorium passed the Legislature unanimously.
6. Another one under construction between Hong Kong and Guangzhou will shorten traveling time to within one hour.
7. shorten的反义词
7. Peng said the new mechanism will shorten the cycle of adjustment to reflect global oil prices more quickly and will increase pricing transparency.
8. The new policy will increase the number of institutional investors, and shorten the expiry date of subordinated debt.
9. But a minority of respondents want to shorten the Labor Day and National Day holidays.
10. " It will help lower our freight costs and shorten delivery time significantly, " he said.
verb
1. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
e.g. bowdlerize a novel
Synonym: bowdlerize bowdlerise expurgate castrate
2. shorten的翻译
2. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
e.g. The manuscript must be shortened
Synonym: abridge foreshorten abbreviate cut contract reduce
3. become short or shorter
e.g. In winter, the days shorten
4. make shorter than originally intended
reduce or retrench in length or duration
e.g. He shortened his trip due to illness
5. make short or shorter
e.g. shorten the skirt
shorten the rope by a few inches