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Jyutping suk1 dyun2
Pinyin suō duǎn

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. to curtail
  2. to cut down
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
  1. (verb) Shorten
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
  1. 動詞
    令一樣​嘢​嘅​長​度​變​短​啲
    to shorten; to cut short; to cut down
    • 縮短工作時間
      缩短工作时间
      suk1 dyun2 gung1 zok3 si4 gaan3
      to shorten the working period
    • 縮短篇幅
      缩短篇幅
      suk1 dyun2 pin1 fuk1
      to cut down the number of pages
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. verb
    to shorten; to decrease in length; to decrease in distance
Definitions (Kaifangcidian)
  1. (沒有對應漢語詞彙)
Definitions (HSK3.0)
  1. HSK3 四级词汇表 #692
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    有人告诉过我,我们每抽一根烟,寿命就会缩短七分钟。
    有人告訴過我,我們每抽一根煙,壽命就會縮短七分鐘。
    yǒu rén gào sù guò wǒ , wǒ men měi chōu yī gēn yān , shòu mìng jiù huì suō duǎn qī fēn zhōng 。
    • Someone told me that every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes away from your life.
  2. Mandarin
    这个学生决定,通过删去不必要的细节,把回家作业缩短一点。
    這個學生決定,通過刪去不必要的細節,把回家作業縮短一點。
    zhè ge xué sheng jué dìng , tōng guò shān qù bù bì yào de xì jié , bǎ huí jiā zuò yè suō duǎn yī diǎn 。
    • The student decided to abridge his paper by taking out unnecessary details.
  3. Mandarin
    别吸烟。吸烟可能缩短你的阴茎。
    別吸煙。吸煙可能縮短你的陰莖。
    bié xī yān 。 xī yān kě néng suō duǎn nǐ de yīn jīng 。
    • Don't smoke. Smoking can shorten your penis.
Examples (粵典–words.hk)
  1. Cantonese
    缩短工作时间
    縮短工作時間
    suk1 dyun2 gung1 zok3 si4 gaan3
    • to shorten the working period
  2. Cantonese
    缩短篇幅
    縮短篇幅
    suk1 dyun2 pin1 fuk1
    • to cut down the number of pages
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    除此之外有时候因应某些特殊的需求,制作出简单的应用程式,应用程式可能只会执行一次,或者永远只应付一种需求,杀鸡焉用牛刀,写死来缩短开发的时间,也是一种不错的决策。
    除此之外有時候因應某些特殊的需求,製作出簡單的應用程式,應用程式可能只會執行一次,或者永遠只應付一種需求,殺雞焉用牛刀,寫死來縮短開發的時間,也是一種不錯的決策。
    chú cǐ zhī wài yǒu shí hòu yīn yìng mǒu xiē tè shū de xū qiú , zhì zuò chū jiǎn dān de yìng yòng chéng shì , yìng yòng chéng shì kě néng zhǐ huì zhí xíng yī cì , huò zhě yǒng yuǎn zhǐ yìng fù yī zhǒng xū qiú , shā jī yān yòng niú dāo , xiě sǐ lái suō duǎn kāi fā de shí jiān , yě shì yī zhǒng bù cuò de jué cè .
    • Besides this, there are times when one creates a simple application in order to meet a special requirement. Perhaps the application will only be run once, or will never doing anything else but that one task. In such cases, why use an ox cleaver to kill a chicken? In terms of shortening development time, hard coding would not be a bad strategy.