A cellist is always shortening and lengthening the strings.

大提琴演奏家总是在压缩或拉长弦。

A portmanteau is a word made from shortening and combining two other words.

合成词是由另外两个词的缩写和重组而形成的词。

Despite Jeb Bush's plans, America will most likely follow the shortening work week trend.

尽管杰布·布什有着那样的计划，美国人工作时间变得更短是大势所趋。

The shortening or foregoing of the theatrical window has ruffled the feathers of theater owners.

影院放映的缩减已惹怒了影视公司们。

An " abbreviation" is a shortening of a word.

“缩写”是将一个词缩短。

Another way to use vague language is when shortening a list.

模糊语言的另一个用法就是用于缩略一长串内容。

The first two, shortening muscle fibers and lengthening them, generate opposing forces.

前两种包括收缩型肌肉纤和伸长型肌肉纤，彼此会产相对的作用力。

C) Their shortening process can be reversed.

C）它们的缩短过程可以逆转。

As it's been shown that the arts can bring all sorts of positive changes in patients, including benefits such as shortening the length of stay in hospital and reducing the amounts of medicine they need.

因为有证据表明，艺术可以给病人带来各种积极的变化，包括缩短住院时间和减少所物数量等好处。

And it turns out, stress may actually accelerate the shortening of these telomeres.

而实际上，压力会加速这些端粒变短。

But aren't you shortening her life by giving her so much?

咱们给她那么大的分量岂不是要缩短她的寿命吗？

The sledge, shortening this route, took a chord of the arc described by the railway.

雪橇从弧线内直行穿过，缩短了这条铁路形成的弧行路线。

" Proposals for shortening approval procedures in planning appeals" ?

" 缩短申请上诉手续的提案" ？

There are many ways, such as shortening.

有很多方法，例如缩略。

Here's the thing, if I eat a sugary cookie, the sugar lures you in like the Trojan horse but waiting inside that cookie is a huge load of butter or shortening.

过程是这样的，假设我吃了一块含糖的饼干，饼干就像特洛伊木马那样，以糖为诱饵，将隐藏在其中的大量黄油或酥油运进人体。

Conventional fast charging, of the sort a private motorist might employ at a service station, is intended only for occasional use because doing it repeatedly strains a battery, shortening its working life.

传统的快速充电，就像私人司机在服务站所使用的那样，只用于偶尔的使用，因为这样反复充电会使电池疲劳，缩短电池的使用寿命。

Min said at a press conference on Thursday that the system is the world's largest earthquake early warning system, making a leap in shortening the delivery of earthquake information from a minute to a few seconds after an earthquake starts.

闵在周四的新闻发布会上表示，该系统是世界上最大的地震预警系统，在地震开始后将地震信息的传递从一分钟缩短到几秒钟方面实现了飞跃。

Physical therapy can be used to build strength and improve walking ability, along with stretching to reduce contracture, which is a permanent shortening of muscle tissue from being hypertonic or contracted for so long.

物理疗法可以用来增强体力，提高行走能力，同时拉伸可以减少挛缩；以防肌肉组织由于长期肌张力高或挛缩永久缩小。

As it turns out, when the DART mission slammed into the asteroid dimorphos on September 26th, it actually changed the space rock's trajectory, shortening its orbit.

事实证明，当 DART 任务于9月26日撞上小行星时，它实际上改变了它的轨道，缩短了它的轨道距离。

But suffice to say, the alcoholism epidemic and its effects on shortening men's lifespans to almost a decade less than women in the country has not been helping.

但足以说明，酗酒的流行及其导致该国男性寿命比女性短近十年的影响并没有起到什么震慑作用。