shortening
英 [ˈʃɔːtnɪŋ]
美 [ˈʃɔːrtnɪŋ]
n. (制作油酥点心用的)起酥油
v. (使)变短，缩短
shorten的现在分词
现在分词：shortening 复数：shortenings
BNC.33129 / COCA.25891
牛津词典
noun
- （制作油酥点心用的）起酥油
fat that is used for making pastry
柯林斯词典
- (和面团时用的)酥油，起酥油
Shorteningis cooking fat that you use with flour in order to make pastry or dough.
英英释义
noun
- act of decreasing in length
- the dress needs shortening
- fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods
双语例句
- And finally, this paper puts forward some countermeasures of reducing or shortening the lovelorn process.
最后根据信任的特性提出了消除或缩短失恋过程的一些对策。 - Shortening period of product life cycle requires companies to accelerate their technological upgrading.
第二，产品生命周期的缩短，要求企业必须加速技术更新。 - CUTS to school staff have forced a primary head teacher to consider shortening her pupils'lunch hour and school day.
学校工作人员的裁减，迫使小学班主任考虑缩短学生的午餐时间和授课时间。 - Conclusion: Greatly increased the use of chymotrypsin hematoma absorption rate, shortening the time residual hematoma in the brain, reducing hospital costs and hospital stay.
结论：使用糜蛋白酶大大提高了血肿的吸收速度，缩短了血肿在脑内残留时间，减少了住院费用和住院时间。 - You may be having extra cash at some point of time prompting you to shortening the loan duration.
你可能有一些额外的现金促使你点时间缩短贷款期限。 - My trousers need shortening.
我的裤子需要改短。 - Software reuse is one of the important methods for improving software quality and shortening software developing period.
软件复用技术是提高软件开发质量，缩短软件开发周期的重要方法之一。 - Shortening the decision-making process would provide one solution.
缩短决策过程会是一个解决办法。 - This type of fat is typically found in margarine, shortening, and hydrogenated cooking oils.
这种类型的脂肪是通常存在于人造黄油、起酥油、和氢化食用油。 - Future research should target shortening process and reducing pollution, particularly the discharge of carbon during the recovery process.
今后的研究方向应是缩短工艺流程，减少环境污染，尤其要减少回收过程中的碳排放。