1. to shorten one's traveling time by chatting 以聊天消磨旅途中无聊的时间
2. Management gave in to the strikers' demands and agreed to a shortened work week. 资方屈服于罢工者所提出来的要求，同意缩短每周的工时。
3. Deformity, disease and a shortened life span become the accepted norm, the accepted belief system. 畸形、疾病和缩短的寿命成为被接受的常态、被接受的信仰系统。
英英解释
adj.
1. cut short
2. cut short in duration
3. shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into anothe
4. with parts removed
