一中英惯用例句:
  • 挛缩一种异常且常为永久性的缩短，如肌肉或瘢痕组织，会导致扭曲或变形，特别是身体关节处
    An abnormal, often permanent shortening, as of muscle or scar tissue, that results in distortion or deformity, especially of a joint of the body.
  • 日子一天天过去了，阿尔卑斯山夏季的游客日渐稀少。此时，博士经过计算终于确定了霍华德的尸体可能出现的位置——一个塌陷的冰丘上。
    The days were shortening and the summer visitors had gone by the time John was able to pinpoint the spot where he calculated Howard's body would be.
  • 国家老年研究所的塔玛拉·哈里斯说：“不可能仅仅有一种永驻青春的不老药，因为其它活动如自由基氧化作用和缩短调聚作用放慢身体退化的过程。
    A single fountain-of-youth elixir is highly unlikely, says Tamara Harris of the National Institute on Aging, because other activities, such as free-radical oxidation and possibly telomere shortening, also contribute to the body's slow decline.
  • 各部门已实施超过30项具体措施，当中包括简化审批一般建筑图则及有关文件的程序和缩短审批时间；推行电子检索系统试验计划，大幅缩短检索核准建筑图则的时间；以及提供电子政府表格，方便工商界和个别市民利用互联网递交。
    Departments implemented more than 30 specific measures, including streamlining procedures and reducing the processing time in the approval of general building plan and related submissions, significantly shortening the retrieval time for approved building plans by introduction of a pilot electronic retrieval system, and facilitating the submission of public forms by businesses and individuals electronically through the Internet.
  • 在他搬到医院的房子里去住的那天，米里哀先生就一次作出决定，把那笔款分作以下各项用途。
    On the very day when he took up his abode in the hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for all, in the following manner.
  • 一条比通常所走的要短的路线。
    a route shorter than the usual one.
  • 厄庇墨透斯的家里放着一个瓮，里面装着一些害人精。他因为一直忙着打点人类在新住地安身，还没有顾得上处理它们。
    Epimetheus had in his house a jar, in which were kept certain noxious articles, for which, in fitting man for his new abode, he had had no occasion.
  • 请两边再稍剪短一些。
    Please cut it a bit shorter on both side.
  • （near或close的比较极形式）在较短的一段距离内。
    (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance.
  • 赫利孔山海拔1，749。2米（5，735英尺）一座山，位于希腊中部。传说中是女神缪斯居住的地方，后奉献给太阳神
    A mountain,1, 749.2(5, 735 ft) high, of central Greece. It was the legendary abode of the Muses and was sacred to Apollo.
  • 请你把两边的头发再剪短一点好吗？
    Could you cut the sides a bit shorter, please?
  • 费用会多一点，但会更早到达。
    It'll cost a little more, but time is shorter.
  • 这链子短了点，再放长一些。
    The chain is a little shorter. Pay out more, please.
  • 这根绳子比另外一根长半米。
    This string is half a metre shorter than the other.
  • 哪一条路最近？
    Which way is the shortest?
  • 最简短的回答就是一个“干”字。
    The shortest answer is doing the thing.
  • 十二月22日是一年中白天最短的。
    December　22 is the shortest day of a year.
  • （near或close的最高级）在最短的一段距离内。
    (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance.
  • 十二月22日是一年中最短的一天。
    December 22th was one of the shortest day in1 year.
  • 新约的四个福音中最短的一个。
    the shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament.
  • 愚人节还是一年中最短的节日之一。
    April Fools' Day is also one of the year's shortest holidays.
  • 一九九九年一月，终审法院首次就两组重要的居留权案件作出判决。
    In particular, in January 1999, the Court of Final Appeal delivered its judgments in two sets of landmark cases involving the right of abode issues.
  • 这是我打过的新中最短的一封信。
    This is what I have beaten new middle the shortest letter.
  • 从曼彻斯特走出来的最短路程，就是那声名狼藉的一瓶“戈登”杜松子酒。
    The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.
  • 从曼彻斯特走出来的最短路程，就是那声名狼籍的一瓶“戈登”杜松子酒。
    The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon 's gin.
  • （“close（靠近的）”最高级）表示几个当中距离最近的一个。
    (superlative of `close') indicating the one of several that is the shortest distance away.
  • 位于英吉利海峡和北海之间的一个海峡；英国和欧洲大陆的最短距离。
    the strait between the English Channel and the North Sea; shortest distance between England and the European continent.
  • 夕阳从济贫院窗上反射，像从富裕人家窗上反射一样光亮；
    The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode;
  • （数学）在数学定义上的表面上两点之间的最短的线（如平面上的一个直线或球体上大圆的一个弧线）。
    (mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or a an arc of a great circle on a sphere).
  • 天天闹训政，把时间糊里糊涂地闹掉了，把一个最短期间，变成了最长期间，还口口声声假托孙先生。
    Fiddling every day with political tutelage, certain people have senselessly fiddled away the time, turning "the shortest possible time" into the longest time, and yet they are for ever invoking Dr. Sun Yat-sen's name.
  • 今年的小麦供应会有一定数量的短缺。
    There will be a shortfall in wheat supplies this year.
  • 猪的器官大小与人的器官相似,一些科学家希望它们可用于弥补器官短缺问题。
    Pig organs are of a similar size to human organs, and some scientists hope they might be used to help meet the shortfall.