1. He said 10 thousand degrees of electricity could be saved if half of the guests shortened their showers by five minutes.
2. The journey time between Dali and Lijiang will be shortened from four hours by bus to less than an hour and a half by train.
3. The caffeine shortened the amount of time it took the females to return to the males for another round of mating.
4. Stern said the league was in good health, despite the lockout that shortened training camp and compressed the regular season to 66 games.
5. " We have shortened the supply chain and cut delivery time to beat competitors, " Guo said.
6. They say if you leave the United States to live in China, your life is shortened by one day because of the change in time.
7. The development of transportation and telecommunication facilities has shortened the physical distance among the people and changed ways of human communication.
8. Chen urged the government to communicate with the banks, suggesting shortened loan approval procedures and a concessionary interest rate for SMEs.
9. According to a study a month after the new policy was implemented, the length of severe urban traffic congestion each day was markedly shortened as a result.
10. His convalescence period could be shortened from seven days to two or three days, an official source said.
shortened的近义词
adj
1. with parts removed
e.g. the drastically cut film
Synonym: cut
2. cut short
e.g. a sawed-off shotgun
a sawed-off broomstick
the shortened rope was easier to use
3. shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
e.g. a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars
years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream
Synonym: telescoped
4. cut short in duration
e.g. the abbreviated speech
her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking
an unsatisfactory truncated conversation
Synonym: abbreviated truncated