1·Have you thought about having your hair in a shorter style?
你有没有想过剪个短发型?
—— 《牛津词典》
2·What's more, each new change comes after a shorter and shorter time.
而且,每次新的变革所发生的时间间隔越来越短。
3·A shorter working week would enable us to redistribute hours from the overworked to the underworked.
一个更短的工作周将使我们能够重新分配工作时间,把工作从过度工作的人身上转移到工作不足的人身上。
4·We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be maintained.
我们也可以相当有信心地认为,目前的“日渐短”和“周渐短”的趋势将会保持下去。
5·Eventually, the western states diverted much of their produce from the rivers to the Erie Canal, a shorter route to eastern markets.
最终,西部各州将大部分农产品从河流转移到伊利运河,这是一条通往东部市场的较短路线。
6·A shorter drought in which they exhausted their stored food supplies might already have gotten them in deep trouble, because growing crops required rain rather than reservoirs.
一场持续时间较短的干旱耗尽了他们的粮食储备,而这可能已经让他们陷入了困境,因为种植农作物需要降雨,而不是水库。
7·The firm is introducing a shorter working week.
这家公司要采用较短的周工作时间。
—— 《牛津词典》
8·The male is generally larger with a shorter beak.
通常雄鸟体形较大,喙较短。
—— 《牛津词典》
9·As I learned in my challenge, by not having my smartphone, I fell into deep work more easily, so I completed my tasks in a shorter time.
我从我的挑战中了解到,没有智能手机,我更容易陷入深度工作,所以我在更短的时间内完成了我的任务。
10·Have you got a shorter size?
你有短点的尺寸吗?