Shorten
[ 'ʃɔrtn ]
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vt.& vi. 缩短，变短;
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short短+en变成 →缩短
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The days are beginning to shorten.
白天开始变短了。
shorten one's journey
缩短旅程
to shorten a long article
缩短一篇长文
The new highway shortens the trip.
新公路使旅程缩短了。
shorten [lengthen] one's grip
短握 [长握] 球棒
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📖 牛津释义
shorten
v[I, Tn]
(cause sth to) become shorter （使某物）变短
The days are beginning to shorten, eg in autumn. 白天开始变短了（如在秋季）.
take two links out of the chain to shorten it 取下两个链环把链子弄短
They want to shorten the time it takes to make the car. 他们想把生产汽车的时间缩短. Cf 参看 lengthen (length).
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Could I bum some money off of you?
我能先从你那借点钱吗？
It wasn't any bother.I was glad to do it.
不麻烦.我乐意做。
But here we come up against the most difficult of all obstacles to contact with people on other planets ----the astronomical distances which separate us.
然而，在和外星人联系中我们遇到的最大困难是分隔我们的天文距离。