shortness

英 [ʃɔːtnəs] 美 [ʃɔːtnəs]

• n. 短小；简略；不足；近视；（金属等的）脆性

英英释义

Noun:

1. the property of being of short spatial extent;

   "the shortness of the Channel crossing"
   

2. the condition of being short of something;

   "there was no shortness of money"
   "can cause shortness of breath"
   

3. the property of being truncated or short

4. the property of being of short temporal extent;

   "the shortness of air travel time"
   

5. the property of being shorter than average stature

6. an abrupt discourteous manner

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He was extremely sorry for the shortness of time.
   他对时间不足感到十分抱歉。
2. Some women don't have typical symptoms like chest pains, she said, but may have pain lower in their bodies or severe shortness of breath.
   有些女性没有心脏疼痛等病征，但在身体深处有疼痛感，或严重呼吸不足。

词汇搭配

• short 短的
• anasarca with shortness of breath 正水
• shortness of breath 气急
• hot shortness 热脆性
• dough shortness 面团酥性
• cold shortness 冷脆性
• hydrogen shortness 氢脆性
• red shortness 热脆性
• blue shortness 蓝脆性,蓝热脆性...
• black shortness 冷脆性

近反义词

【近义词】

• brevity 短暂
• poverty 贫困
• brusqueness 唐突
• curtness 简略
• abruptness 突然
• smallness 小
• tininess 极小
• littleness 细小(少量)
• quickness 急速
• rapidity 迅速
• speed 速度
• transience 短暂，片刻，稍纵即逝...
• briefness 简单
• concision 简明
• succinctness 简明
• briskness 敏捷
• truncation 切掉顶端
• gruffness gruff的名词形式...

【反义词】

• longness 长度
• tallness 高