Shorter

例句/造句/用法:

• If your crop comes shorter into market than any of theirs, you won't lose your bet, I suppose? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• But we shall take a shorter cut through the furze than you can go with long clothes; so we won't trouble you to wait. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• It is much shorter, and probably not quite so exact as that of the French taxes. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Shorter and easier. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
• Mrs. Murray made it, and it's sure to be right; it may be a straw's breadth shorter or longer-waisted, according to my having grown fat or thin. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• His legs were very robust, but shorter than legs of good proportions should have been. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
• In many cases, it is preferable to exert a force of 30 pounds, for example, over the distance _CA_ than a force of 120 pounds over the shorter distance _BA_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• Why, my limbs only made my breath shorter when I used 'em. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• Long periods of slowness and stagnation have alternated with shorter or longer periods of prolific growth, and these with seasons of slumber and repression. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• The approach end of the bed, approximately eighteen feet long, is constructed of maple, with each alternate strip of the 3 x 1-inch bed stock about eighteen inches shorter. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• McClernand was in person on the middle road and had a shorter distance to march to reach the enemy's position than McPherson. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• I know a shorter way than that he has taken. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• A short railway journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest residence of the great financier. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• This machine could do the work of many spinners, and in a much shorter time. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• The more curved the lens, the shorter the focal length, and the nearer the focus is to the lens. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• He did not see that whether he took the longer or the shorter road, no advance could be made in this way. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• It was only after repeated experiments that it was learned that the shorter guns carried the projectile the greatest distance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• From San Francisco to Buenos Aires, via Valparaiso and Magellan, is approximately 7,610 miles, which is shorter than the route through the canal, by which the distance is 8,941 miles. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• The shorter the pipe, the higher the pitch. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• He had the shorter nose and longer upper lip of his sister rather than the fine traits of his brother. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• To think it out through the future, is a harder though a much shorter task than to think it out through the past. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• The Union lines were shorter than those of the enemy. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• When I paced one corridor and found it six feet shorter than the corresponding one below, it was pretty clear where he was. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• It's shorter and simpler in Spanish. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
• If the position of our front had not changed, the road which Wallace took would have been somewhat shorter to our right than the River road. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• The other parties will take shorter journeys. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• I heard a heavy puffing and blowing coming towards us, and soon Mr. Omer, shorter-winded than of yore, but not much older-looking, stood before me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• The shorter the air column, the higher the pitch. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• Besides, the oncoming material would thus be gradually raised in temperature instead of being heated abruptly, as in the shorter kilns. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• Miss Trotwood, you had better stop this; or I'll stop your husband shorter than will be pleasant to you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.

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