| 正面 | 7712.shorten 英 ['ʃɔːt(ə)n]美 ['ʃɔrtn]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1、agon- + -y.2、本身的直接含义：痛苦的挣扎，(剧烈的)争夺，(激烈的)竞争。3、由于竞争、争夺的残酷性和激烈性，进而导致身心的煎熬与痛苦，由此进而引申为：(精神上或肉体上极度的)痛苦；极度悲痛，临死的痛苦；垂死的挣扎。4. 谐音“哀割你”。5. 和 ecstasy 一起记，电影《The Agony and the Ecstasy》（即：《痛苦与狂喜》，又被翻译为《万世千秋》）描述了米开朗基罗(Michelangelo)画梵地冈西斯廷教堂屋顶壁画的经历。vt. 缩短；减少；变短vi. 缩短；变短 例句： 1. As they shorten, cells become more prone to disease and death.细胞变小后就会更容易感染疾病，也更容易死亡。 shorten 缩短来自 short,短的，-en,使。 shorten (v.)1510s, "make shorter;" 1560s, "grow shorter," from short (adj.) + -en (1); the earlier form of the verb was simply short, from Old English sceortian "to grow short, become short; run short, fail," gescyrtan "to make short."" |