Shorten

(verb.) become short or shorter; 'In winter, the days shorten'.

(verb.) make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; 'He shortened his trip due to illness'.

(verb.) make short or shorter; 'shorten the skirt'; 'shorten the rope by a few inches'.

录入:莫拉

• I come to a question that may shorten the business. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I think I may shorten the subject. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This wound will probably shorten my life, having shattered a frame, weak of itself. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Lydgate did not mention to the Vicar another reason he had for wishing to shorten the period of courtship. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• You will not allow this base newspaper slander to shorten your stay here, Mr. Winkle? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• They are sudden discoveries which for the most part simply shorten his journey. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Holding the end of a skate-strap for another lad to shorten with an axe, he lost the top of a finger. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I would rather bear tediousness, dear, than have time made short by such means as have shortened mine. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• After a silence of some minutes she observed-- With her constitution she should have lived to a good old age: her life was shortened by trouble. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• When the colour is absent from only one of the two upper petals, the nectary is not quite aborted but is much shortened. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I do not think, he said, that the way could have been shortened. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• About the same time the look-out on the Arrow must have discerned it, for in a few minutes Tarzan saw the sails being shifted and shortened. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Its aspect was altered since the days had shortened and the weather had grown cold. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Although it cost $33,000,000 and required seven years for completion, the labor-saving cableways greatly cheapened its cost and shortened the time of its construction. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is useful for the making of chains, tools, carriage axles, joining shafting, wires, and pipes, mending bands, tires, hoops, and lengthening and shortening bolts, bars, etc. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Yet she had not to complain of an undue shortening of existence; her faded person shewed that life had naturally spent itself. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I thought you were going to tell your speech to that man, said Jo, rudely shortening her sister's little reverie. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Still he looked both handsome and superb; but time was shortening and there was only one direction to go. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Proportions, fore-shortening. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• In the trombone, valves are replaced by a section which slides in and out and shortens or lengthens the tube. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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