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单词 short cut
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short cut

also short-cut also shortcut
Word forms: plural short cuts
1. countable noun
A short cut is a quicker way of getting somewhere than the usual route.
I tried to take a short cut and got lost.
2. countable noun
A short cut is a method of achieving something more quickly or more easily than if you use the usual methods.
Fame can be a shortcut to love and money. [+ to]
There is no short cut from dictatorship to democracy.
3. countable noun
On a computer, a shortcut is an icon on the desktop that allows you to go immediately to a program, document and so on.
[computing]
...ways to move or copy icons or create shortcuts in Windows.
4. countable noun
On a computer, a shortcut is a keystroke or a combination of keystrokes that allows you to give commands without using the mouse.
[computing]
...a handy keyboard shortcut that takes you to the top of the screen.

short cut in British English

noun
1. 
a route that is shorter than the usual one
2. 
a means of saving time or effort
verb shortcutWord forms: -cuts, -cutting or -cut
3. (intransitive)
to use a short cut
Word origin
C16: from cut (in the sense: a direct route)

short-cut in British English

or shortcut (ʃɔːt kʌt)
verbWord forms: short-cuts, short-cutting or short-cut (intransitive)
to use a short cut

Examples of 'short cut' in a sentence
short cut

It taught me not to take short cuts.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It seemed like easy money and a short cut to joining a glamorous elite.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
All those steps can be built into one short cut.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The investigation found that miners were choosing to take dangerous short cuts rather than following the official processes.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He could have been a superstar but got greedy and decided he wanted to take the short cut.
The Sun (2009)
The real question about his judgement asks not why he takes short cuts but why he takes so many chances.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Sculpture and short cuts don't go together.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But don't be tempted to take any short cuts.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
That route is a short cut to corruption, complacency and an unhealthy democracy.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
When you really have to go, you shall leave by one of my short cuts.
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows (1908)
They have to find ways of taking the short cuts that detectives in fact and fiction have always had to take in the past.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I could have taken a short cut across the meadows.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He sometimes took short cuts, and used misleading printed editions rather than manuscripts which were accessible to him.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
We came to a steep bit, got the map out and decided to take a short cut through woodland.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Don't take the short cut.
The Sun (2009)
I'm going to take a short cut.
Christianity Today (2000)
Some other countries could take short cuts, could walk in the sport's shadows.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Using a clean, sharp knife, make short cuts across the main veins.
The Sun (2008)
Knowing him, he'll want to take some short cuts and get ahead of himself.
The Sun (2010)
`And stick to the main road; the Russians won't risk chancing some short-cut in case they end up lost.
MacNeill, Alastair CODE BREAKER
Her short-cut brown hair clustered around her face in curls.
Ferrars, Elizabeth THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
The window overlooked an alleyway used as a short-cut by students.
Skelton, Alison Scott AN OLDER WOMAN

Chinese translation of 'short cut'

short cut

n (c)

  1. (= route) 近路 (jìnlù) (条(條), tiáo)
  2. (= method) 捷径(徑) (jiéjìng) (条(條), tiáo)

Nearby words of
short cut

  • shore
  • shore up
  • short
  • short cut
  • short of doing ...
  • short story
  • short wave

Related terms of
short cut

  • to cut short
  • to cut a visit short
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