Shortened
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例句/造句/用法:
- I would rather bear tediousness, dear, than have time made short by such means as have shortened mine. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- After a silence of some minutes she observed-- With her constitution she should have lived to a good old age: her life was shortened by trouble. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- When the colour is absent from only one of the two upper petals, the nectary is not quite aborted but is much shortened. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I do not think, he said, that the way could have been shortened. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- About the same time the look-out on the Arrow must have discerned it, for in a few minutes Tarzan saw the sails being shifted and shortened. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Its aspect was altered since the days had shortened and the weather had grown cold. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Although it cost $33,000,000 and required seven years for completion, the labor-saving cableways greatly cheapened its cost and shortened the time of its construction. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The daily visits I could make him were shortened now, and he was more strictly kept. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- My friend shortened the harangue, by taking the man's torch from him; and we proceeded alone. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- And now since 1880, the chemists are pushing aside the vegetable processes, and substituting mineral processes, by which tanning is still further shortened and cheapened. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The bends of the two streams shortened the line that had been chosen for intrenchments, while it increased the area which the line inclosed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- At the end of the three weeks, the time during which the pickerel persisted each day had been shortened and shortened, until it was at last discovered that he didn't try at all. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He is known about the ship as the Interrogation Point, and this by constant use has become shortened to Interrogation. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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