shortening

noun

1. （制作油酥点心用的）起酥油
   fat that is used for making pastry

1. (和面团时用的)酥油，起酥油
   Shortening is cooking fat that you use with flour in order to make pastry or dough.

1. Shortening the decision-making process would provide one solution.
   缩短决策过程会是一个解决办法。
2. Options, directives, and functions continue to simplify programming tasks, shortening development time and reducing risk.
   选项、指令和函数继续简化了编程任务，从而缩短了编程时间并减少了风险。
3. Shortening the development life cycle.
   缩短开发生命周期。
4. Reusable assets reduce costs by shortening development cycles.
   可重用资产能通过缩短开发周期来减少成本。
5. Concentrate on shortening the distance between the cloud and your end users.
   侧重于缩短云与您最终用户之间的距离。
6. Hypertension in children is a very frightening and potentially life shortening condition.
   高血压儿童是一个很可怕的潜在寿命缩短的情况。
7. My trousers need shortening.
   我的裤子需要改短。
8. The aerial can be adjusted to the frequency of those signals by lengthening or shortening the spout.
   靠加长或缩短这根水柱，天线就能调节到相应的信号频率。
9. There is no doubt that the pressures of adult anxiety are shortening childhood, and squeezing it besides.
   毫无疑问，成人的焦虑所产生的压力，缩短了孩童时期，并且压制了它。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. It has advantages of simple step, shortening operating time and so on.
    本发明具有步骤简单、缩短操作时间等优点。
14. 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。
15. The distance becomes shortening a lot.
    距离变近了很多。
16. 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。
17. It would be much more useful if we delay creating the shorten command until the shortening service was available.
    如果我们把创建shorten命令延迟到shortening服务可用之后会很有用。
18. 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。
19. It has been shortening the service life of mines because of their low recovery ratio.
    乡镇煤矿资源回收率低，严重缩短了矿井的服务年限。
20. Continuously improvement in shortening the order leadtime and purchasing method.
    持续改进，不断探讨订货周期的缩短及订货方式的改进。
21. It's only when we start the shortening services that the shorten command is registered.
    只有当我们启动针对shorten命令所注册的shortening服务时才行。
22. Reuse was always one of the ways of improving implementation of new applications and shortening development cycle.
    重用始终是改善新应用程序的实现和缩短开发周期的方法之一。
23. You could start by shortening your lines! I feel like I've waited a lifetime!
    你可以从弄短这些队伍开始！我好象等了一辈子一样！
24. Conclusion Congenital ptosis can be effectively treated by maximum shortening of upper eyelid levator muscle.
    目的探讨应用提上睑肌缩短术治疗中重度先天性上睑下垂的效果。
25. A dough of flour and water and shortening.
    面粉、水和酥松油脂和成的生面团。
26. 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。
27. Ensure all test specifications are written and displayed in the same format, shortening spec review time.
    确保所有测试规范都以相同的格式编写和显示，以缩短规范的审查时间。
28. It is the important way for shortening drilling cycle and decreasing the drilling cost.
    这是缩短钻井周期、降低钻井成本的重要途径。
29. 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。
30. As soon as this bundle starts, the shortening service will be made available to clients.
    只要该bundle一启动，缩写服务就可用了。

noun

1. act of decreasing in length
   1. the dress needs shortening

2. fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods