shorten

vt.& vi.

缩短，变短；

过去式：shortened过去分词：shortened现在分词：shortening第三人称单数：shortens

1. Ive asked him to shorten my trousers.
   我让他把我的裤子弄短点。
2. All you need to do is to shorten the sleeves of the dress instead of picking the whole thing apart.
   你要做的只是将袖子弄短，而不是将整件衣服拆开。
3. The days are beginning to shorten.
   白天开始变短了。
4. 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。

Telomeres shorten during ageing of human fibroblasts.
Perioperative Normothermia to Reduce the Incidence of Surgical-Wound Infection and Shorten Hospitalization — NEJM
Perioperative normothermia to reduce the incidence of surgical wound infection and shorten hospitalization : Kurz A, Sessler DI, Len...
Use of Procalcitonin to Shorten Antibiotic Treatment Duration in Septic Patients
Combinations of R207910 with Drugs Used To Treat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Have the Potential To Shorten Treatment Duration
Stability Criteria for Switched and Hybrid Systems
H-TCP: TCP for high-speed and long-distance networks
On the interpretation and identification of dynamic Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models
Experimental evaluation of TCP protocols for high-speed networks
The velocity of unloaded shortening and its relation to sarcomere length and isometric force in vertebrate muscle fibres.