shortened 缩短的
短路的
- to shorten one's traveling time by chatting
- She shortened the skirt by an inch.
她把裙子缩短了一英寸。 - He also shortened the workday of his employees from nine hours to eight hours so that his factories could operate around the clock.
他还把工人的工作日时间从九个小时缩短到八个小时,这样就可以让他的工厂日以继夜的运作。
shortened[ adj ]- cut short
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a sawed-off shotgun
a sawed-off broomstick
the shortened rope was easier to use
- cut short in duration
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the abbreviated speech
her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking
an unsatisfactory truncated conversation
- shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
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a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars
years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream
- with parts removed
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the drastically cut film
Shorten \Short"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shortened ?}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Shortening}.] [See {Short}, a.]
1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as,
to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of
calamity.
2. To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to
lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to
shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.
Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am
shortened by my chain. --Dryden.
3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
--Dryden.
4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard,
pot liquor, or the like.
{To shorten a rope} (Naut.), to take in the slack of it.
{To shorten sail} (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.