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- 缩短 [suōduǎn]
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紧缩使变短
- 缩短学制
- 文章缩短了三分之一。
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紧缩使变短
Examples
- 提高效率，缩短工期。
- Increase efficiency and shorten the time limit for the project. → 工期
- 缩短制作过程
- shorten the process of manufacture → 过程
- 缩短学制
- shorten the period of schooling → 缩短
- 缩短距离
- reduce the distance; narrow the gap → 缩短
- 把报告缩短一半
- cut a report down to half its length → 缩短
- 缩短载途时间
- shorten the route → 载途
- 缩短总装时间，以减少耗费
- cut costs by shortening assembly time → 总装
- 我们缩短了讨论的时间，提前散会了。 → 缩短
- 随着交往的加深，他们两人的心理距离渐渐缩短了。 → 缩短
- 这篇文章太冗长了，你最起码要缩短三分之一。 → 缩短
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