shortening

美 [ˈʃɔːrtnɪŋ]英 [ˈʃɔːtnɪŋ]
  • n.(制作油酥点心用的)起酥油
  • v.(使)变短,缩短
  • shorten的现在分词

复数: shortenings

shorteningshortening

noun

U(制作油酥点心用的)起酥油
fat that is used for making pastry

shortening

频次

  • 1
    N-MASS (和面团时用的)酥油,起酥油
    Shortening is cooking fat that you use with flour in order to make pastry or dough.

noun

1
act of decreasing in length
the dress needs shortening
2
fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods

数据来源:WordNet

  1. 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。

  2. The Research of Entire Plant Margarine and Shortening Being Non Hydrogenated as a New OiI Source ─ⅰ

    无氢化全植物性人造奶油和起酥油新油源的探索&Ⅰ

  3. We discussed shortening the length of the course .

    我们就缩短这门课程的时限进行了讨论。

  4. Injury problems could shorten his career .

    受伤的问题有可能缩短他的职业生涯。

  5. In November the temperatures drop and the days shorten .

    十一月气温下降,白天变短。

  6. Shortening the decision-making process would provide one solution .

    缩短决策过程会是一个解决办法。

  7. When the days shorten in winter some people suffer depression .

    冬季天短,有些人会变得抑郁消沉。

  8. As they shorten , cells become more prone to disease and death .

    细胞变小后就会更容易感染疾病,也更容易死亡。

  9. Her father paid £ 1,000 for an operation to shorten her nose

    她父亲花了1,000英镑给她做了削鼻手术。

  10. The ruling will put extra pressure on health authorities to change working practices and shorten hours

    该判决将给卫生部门施加更多的压力促使其改变工作惯例,缩短工作时间。

  11. To include as many viewpoints as possible , the editor reserves the right to shorten letters .

    为了能包括尽可能多的观点,编辑保留对信件进行删节的权力。

  12. Smoking can shorten your life

    吸烟会缩短你的寿命。

  13. The director asked me to shorten the report to one page .

    主管要我把报告缩为一页。

  14. Please shorten your composition .

    请压缩一下你的作文。

  15. Minor accidents can shorten the life of a car .

    小事故会缩短汽车寿命。

  16. Increase efficiency and shorten the time limit for the project .

    提高效率,缩短工期。

  17. Shorten the report by five pages .

    把这份报告改短五页。

  18. The skirt is too long & shorten it by two centimetres .

    裙子太长了,去两公分吧。

  19. A school district outside Denver has decided to shorten its week to four days — from Tuesday to Friday , and the first school year on this new timetable just started , CBS Denver reports .

    据美国哥伦比亚广播公司(CBS)丹佛分部报道,丹佛市外的一个学区已决定将一周的上课时间缩短为四天(周二到周五),按照这一新时间表开展课程的第一个学年已经开始。

  20. My dress is too long I must shorten it .

    我的连衣裙太长了,我得把它截短些。

  21. Significantly shorten the negative list for foreign investment .

    大幅缩减外资准入负面清单

  22. is a shortening of the saying ' God blind me ! '

    “Blimey!”是“Godblindme!(上帝蒙骗了我)”的缩写。

  23. Use peanut or safflower oil or solid vegetable shortening for frying .

    用花生或红花油,或者食用油来起酥

  24. Telomeres naturally shorten as people age , but the structures don 't shorten at the same rate in every person .

    人们在变老的过程中,端粒也会自然缩短,但这个结构在每个人身上变短的速度均不同。

  25. Instead , sarcomere shortening occurs when the thin filaments'slide " by the thick filaments .

    此外,肌节的缩短发生于细肌丝沿粗肌丝“滑行”之际

  26. China will shorten its catalog of technologies prohibited or restricted from import to create a favorable environment for the free flow of technologies across borders .

    中国将压缩《中国禁止进口限制进口技术目录》,为技术要素跨境自由流动创造良好环境。

  27. This verb is a tidy shortening of the longer idiomatic phrase " to throw ( someone ) under the bus , " which has been in the language since at least 1991 :

    这个词是短语“tothrow(someone)underthebus”的简写形式,意为:将某人推下水,即为了个人利益牺牲或者背叛别人。这个短语至少在1991年时就开始使用了:

  28. One of the most common and versatile2 of British exclamation3 , ' Bloody hell ' is what we linguistics4 call a minced5 oath , as the word ' bloody ' is probably a shortening of ' By Our Lady ' ( i.e. the Virgin6 Mary ) .

    这是最常见并通用于各种场合的英式惊叹词之一。从语言学上来说,“Bloodyhell”是一种避免爆粗的委婉表达。“bloody”应该是“ByOurLady”(即圣母玛利亚)的缩略语。

  29. do the business . STREWTH ! In a similar way to ' Blimey ' , ' Strewth ' is a shortening of ' By God 's truth ' , and is probably the most outdated9 word on our list - although it has enjoyed something of a recent revival10 in Australia .

    和“Blimey”相似,“Strewth”是“ByGod'struth”的缩略语,这大概是这篇文章中最过时的一个惊叹词了,尽管最近它在澳大利亚还流行了一阵子。

  30. The system could greatly shorten the design period and improve efficiency .

    该系统可以大大缩短设计周期,提高效率。