Ive asked him to shorten my trousers. 我让他把我的裤子弄短点。
All you need to do is to shorten the sleeves of the dress instead of picking the whole thing apart. 你要做的只是将袖子弄短,而不是将整件衣服拆开。
The days are beginning to shorten. 白天开始变短了。
The vehicles that press down on a bridge's roadway compress the top half of the road, causing it to shorten like a compressed spring. 那些从桥上过压紧桥面的车辆会导致路面上半部分的压缩,使其想被压缩的弹簧一样变短。