shortening

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈʃɔː.tən.ɪŋ]
• 美式音标 [ˈʃɔːrt.nɪŋ]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. （制作油酥点心用的）起酥油；缩短；缩略词
• v. （使）缩短，变短，缩写；缩帆；（赌博赔率）缩小；使（元音、音节）发短音（shorten 的现在分词）

同根派生

同根词
• 词根：short
adj.
• short短的；不足的；急速的；唐突的
• shortish显得短的；稍短的
adv.
• short不足；突然；唐突地
• shortly立刻；简短地；唐突地
n.
• short短；缺乏；短路；短裤
• shortness不足；简略
• shortener缩短器；搅面机；油缩机
vi.
• shorten缩短；变短
vt.
• shorten缩短；减少；变短

• shortening相关词

英汉例句

双语例句

• She uses no shortening in her creations; only pure butter.
  她不用任何起酥油，只用纯天然黄油。
• The aerial can be adjusted to the frequency of those signals by lengthening or shortening the spout.
  靠加长或缩短这根水柱，天线就能调节到相应的信号频率。
• Reuse was always one of the ways of improving implementation of new applications and shortening development cycle.
  重用始终是改善新应用程序的实现和缩短开发周期的方法之一。

原声例句

• A cellist is always shortening and lengthening the strings.
  大提琴演奏家总是在压缩或拉长弦
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权威例句

• The Fed is shortening the maturity of U.S. debt when just the opposite is called for.
  FORBES: John Cochrane's Unpleasant Fiscal Arithmetic
• Told that workers want shorter hours, he suggests shortening their lunch hours to 20 minutes.
  NPR: 'Duck Soup': Take One Fiscal Crisis, Boil Merrily
• The Gates Foundation was a big investor in Eni and thus simultaneously lengthening and shortening lives.
  FORBES: A New Civics for a Capitalist World

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词组短语

短语

• Channel shortening 沟道缩短
• shortening period [生理]缩短期;缩短期
• heat shortening 热收缩
• Emulsify Shortening 乳化油
• shortening reaction 缩短反应;短缩反应;翻译

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a type of solid vegetable oil, or sometimes butter or lard (= fat from animals), that is used in cooking, especially to make pastry soft and crumbly (= easily broken)

柯林斯英英字典

• Shortening is cooking fat that you use with flour in order to make pastry or dough.

• shortening剑桥字典
• shortening柯林斯字典

专业释义

医药科学

• 缩短

  IgA nephropathy is another disease associated with telomere shortening leading toa decline in kidney dusfunction.
  IgA肾病也是一种与端粒缩短相关的疾病。

• 短缩

机械工程

• 起酥油

  The produced shortening under those conditions was delicate white and fine structured.4.
  此条件下生产的起酥油雪白细腻,晶体排列均匀,组织结构细腻。

  语言学

• 缩略

  Compounding, affixation, and shortening are the most frequently used formation methods.
  研究发现，商务环境中出现的英语新词最活跃的构词方法是复合法、词缀法和缩略法。

• 短音；读作短音

食品科学技术

• 白油
• 酥油