| 1. | Minor accidents can shorten the life of a car ..
小事故会缩短汽车寿命。 |
| 2. | She shortened the dress .
她改短了那件衣服。 |
| 3. | Pollution shortens considerably the life expectancy of a body of water .
污染使水体的估计寿命大为缩短。 |
| 4. | When pressure is increased, the ancroid is squeezed, so it shortens .
当大气压力增加时，膜盒压紧而缩短。 |
| 5. | Jupiter shortened the spring, and divided the year into four seasons .
朱庇特缩短了春天，把一年分为四季。 |
| 6. | Particularly cigarette smoking is associated with a shortened life expectancy .
尤其是吸卷烟会缩短人的概率寿命。 |
| 7. | Logarithms were invented to shorten the work of extended numerical computation .
人们发明对数来缩短运算冗长的数值计算工作。 |
| 8. | These symbols provide a convenient shortened reference to the actual class names .
这些符号为实际的类名提供了一种便利简短的代号。 |
| 9. | Since silver is a very good conductor, the points of each silver rod have been shortened .
由于银是很好的导体，每个银棒的两端都被短接。 |
| 10. | This period would, of course, be shortened by any preliminary work and thought .
这个期限当然还可以由事先有所准备和有所考虑而得以缩短。 |
