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Перевод: shorten

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укорачивать; сокращать; укорачиваться; сокращаться; урезывать; добавлять к тесту жир для рассыпчатости

Тезаурус:

1. One change that we have already started to introduce is to shorten the title of the publication to The Modern Electronics Manual .
2. "Part of the organic ethic is to shorten the chain and look at ways of bringing consumers and producers back together," said its spokesman Patrick Holden.
3. Platform games are a popular genre, but the essentially uncomplicated nature of the puzzles included in most tends to shorten their life span.
4. His achievements to date were listed: charges laid on the railway in the Tobruk area on the night of 14 October; a failed attempt to do the same near Sidi Barani which resulted in the death of the patrol commander, Lieutenant Shorten; two further breaks in the railway on 24 October; nine breaks on 29 October, and finally another attack on the track on 31 October.
5. Coleridge and Southey may have crossed the River Parrett at Bridgwater in order to reach Shurton; more probably, like Thomas De Quincey thirteen years later, they decided to shorten the journey by using the river ferry at Combwich Reach.
6. In addition, they can shorten the child's attention span and make him more easily frustrated - and this in turn leads to a poorer performance in school.
7. Water quality is also important; not only will nitrite make a speedy end of these fish, but a high nitrate level will significantly shorten their life-spans.
8. The implications of this observation were very far-reaching and, as the months passed, Alexander slowly began to notice that, when he pulled his head back, he also had a tendency to lift his chest and shorten his whole stature.
9. As late as 1827, travellers were "fearful of entering the fens of Cambridgeshire lest the Marsh Miasma should shorten their lives".
10. Ian Matthews (see separate story), a Royal College of Art graduate, designed the nifty interior, including its clever seat cushions that roll under themselves to shorten the reach without altering legroom.
11. A structured induction is necessary to shorten the learning period and expedite informed contributions.
12. "If only this will shorten things a bit," was the most popular remark.
13. I couldn't make up my own mind whether to get him to lengthen or shorten and in consequence I didn't make his mind up to do either and we floundered over it untidily, his hooves rapping the wooden frames, my weight too far forward a mess.