例句
英语四级真题
  • Just because emails are a quick form of communication, it doesn't mean emails, especially business emails, should be written using informal, shortened forms of words.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
英语六级真题
  • The workers' pay was raised and their working hours were shortened.
    出自-2010年6月听力原文
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Adjective
    1. cut short;
    "a sawed-off shotgun""a sawed-off broomstick""the shortened rope was easier to use"
    2. cut short in duration;
    "the abbreviated speech""a curtailed visit""her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking""an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
    3. shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another;
    "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars""years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
    4. with parts removed;
    "the drastically cut film"