shorten

1 This highlights yet another payoff of the passive voice: it can unburden memory by shortening the interval between a filler and a gap.

2 Eventually, that shortened to Big W. By the time he started college at Tuskegee Institute, Enoch had become Big Dub.

3 And I decided to shorten my sights somewhat and change only my country.

我决定把目光稍微放近点，只是想改变自己的国家。

4 Season four of Lost collided with the 2007-08 WGA strike, and was shortened by two episodes.

5 With the market competition increasingly pricking up, enterprise have to shorten the product develop period.

市场竞争的日益加剧促使企业必须缩短开发周期,提供满足客户需求的产品.

6 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。

7 As the hoofbeats grew nearer, she pulled her sun- bonnet farther down over her face and shortened the length of her steps, edging over to the side of the narrow road, hitching along.

8 An apostrophe can show where letters have been dropped in a shortened word or phrase.

9 It's going to shorten your life.

将缩短你的生命。

10 He wore a pair of salt-stained leather gloves to hide the stubby fingers of the hand that Stannis had shortened, so many years ago.

11 ‘For tonight we go to the woods on the hills above Woodhall. It is some miles, but you shall have rest at the end of it, and it will shorten your journey tomorrow.’

12 He saw the Tens stroking their new shortened hair, the females shaking their heads to feel the unaccustomed lightness without the heavy braids they had worn so long.

13 Ive asked him to shorten my trousers.

我让他把我的裤子弄短点。

14 I didn’t want you to have to shorten it or lighten it in any way.

15 The vehicles that press down on a bridge's roadway compress the top half of the road, causing it to shorten like a compressed spring.

那些从桥上过压紧桥面的车辆会导致路面上半部分的压缩，使其想被压缩的弹簧一样变短。

16 In their home ecosystems these species have, like all living things, a full complement of parasites, microbes, viruses, and insect predators to shorten and immiserate their lives.

17 After all, the statement was coming from a crook seeking to shorten his sentence, and Spencer, the one person who could corroborate Gregg’s testimony, had since been gunned down by a posse of lawmen.

18 As days shorten with winter, the circadian network responds biochemically to mark the change.

当冬季白昼变短时, 昼夜节律网络系统发生生化反应以标记这样的变化.

19 This shortened first measure is called a pickup measure.

20 However, the new surgical technique of laparoscopy simplifies and shortens the procedure.

然而, 腹腔镜检视的外科新手术简化和缩短了手术过程.

1 弄短

telescope short-circuit

2 松脆

short crunchy shortcrust crackling light crispy crackly

3 脆

tender crisp fragile brittle brash crumbly breakable friable brickle shortness embrittle short shivery

4 减少

down cut attenuate reductive subtractive decrease dip decay lapse drop-off wane rundown shrinkage abatement drawdown letdown knockdown diminution decrement step-down falloff letup take fall reduce decline sink descend diminish deduct lessen recede fritter minish break relax shrink alloy impair dampen whack scant dwindle abate retrench bate gear down bring low cut down on take from caducous reduced away reduction slash attrition cutback lessening wind-down lower detract lose save discount dock whittle attrite subtract from thin down drop away cut into make a dent in pare down drop depression erosion dilution fallback pullback downshift fall-off fallaway ease drain Trim slack dilute subtract axe deplete remit curtail cannibalize run low fallen loss modification contraction dockage minus Peter qualify alleviate rebate deflate pare allay extenuate dull the edge of shed chop shave de-escalate smooth thin narrow fall off fall away peaked waney off attenuation peak ramp dull languish downhold down-point limit shake relieve lighten soothe slacken emaciate falling off

5 下降

katabatic downhill degressive drop loss decline descent slippage fall-off fall lower slip sink descend

6 缩

flinch full reef draw contract shrink gather crimple

7 缩小

reduced coarctate shrinkage diminution coarctation reduce contract diminish narrow shrink lessen minify contraction scale Bridge retreat chop dwindle miniature imperfect contracted peaked reduction peak neck recede belittle deescalate minish

8 缩短

contracted curt syncopated curtate curtal contraction abbreviation shortening retrenchment abridgment cutdown contract telescope cut shrink curtail abbreviate abridge foreshorten retrench short abbreviated curtailed curtailment clip dock compress truncate compact reef truncation reduce trim close brief condense cut-down chop clip off truncated foreshortened short-circuit

9 收起

retract fold back

10 使脆

crisp

11 削减

cut downhold reduction slash drawdown cutback retrenchment abridgment dockage cutdown defalcation dent detruncate defalcate reduce trim chop dock pinch whack curtail whittle pare abridge elide retrench minify razee

12 酥脆

crispy crisply crispness

13 收

receival collect strike reef furl acceptance levy muzzle take accept commit

14 变短

telescope curtate close in draw in

15 剥夺

amotion degradation forfeit deprivation ouster privation deprival devest forejudge dispatch rob deprive shear eject curtail oust divest dispossess abridge denude amove