青年中文shorten的意思
shorten中文翻譯：
vt.縮短；減少；變短
vi.縮短；變短
shortens───vt.縮短；減少；變短；vi.縮短；變短
chorten───n.圣骨冢；神龕；紀念碑
shorted───adj.短路的；v.短路；賣空商品（或券證）（short的過去分詞形式）
shorter───adj.較短的；更短的；更矮的（short的比較級）；n.(Shorter)人名；(英)肖特
shortened───縮短的；短路的
shortener───n.縮短器；攪面機；油縮機
shoremen───陸上工作人員
shortest───adj.最短的
shorties───矮子；特別短的東西（尤指衣服）；短褲；短篇小說；短文；電影短片（shorty的名詞復數）
Injury problems could shorten his career.───受傷的問題有可能縮短他的職業生涯。
In November the temperatures drop and the days shorten.───十一月氣溫下降，白天變短。
Smoking can shorten your life.───吸煙會縮短你的壽命。
At once he began to shorten sail, to invest only in the soundest securities, and to convert all his weaker ones into cash.───他馬上開始收縮資金，只投資在最可靠的證券上，并把他所有比較不可靠的證券都變成了現金。
He said he also tried to encourage engineers to take more risks and shorten development times, which he said has paid off.───他說，他還力圖鼓勵工程師更多地冒險，并縮短開發周期，并說這種努力取得了成效。
One of these was the tendency to shorten words which should have kept their full polysyllabic dignity.───其中之一就是短化單詞的傾向，而單詞本應一直保持其多音節的高貴的。
Shorten the hems on your bargain pants and you'll look chic rather than vaguely like you're trying to sweep the streets.───把你的便宜褲子邊弄短，你就能看起來更時髦，反正比看起來像在清掃大街強。
Also, if you do not wish to use the same number of containers in test that are in production, shorten the list and use fewer containers.───同樣，如果您不希望在測試中使用與生產中相同數目的容器，就縮短列表并使用較少容器。
But it is already a great step forward to be able to shorten the time lag between the settlements of the two legs of the transactions.───但能夠縮短交易中兩個部分的交收時間差距，已是向前邁出了一大步。