| 单词 | foreshorten |
| 释义 | foreshorten (fɔːʳʃɔːʳtən) Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense foreshortens, present participle foreshortening, past tense, past participle foreshortened 1. verb To foreshorten someone or something means to draw them, photograph them, or see them from an unusual angle so that the parts of them that are furthest away seem smaller than they really are. She could see herself in the reflecting lenses, which had grotesquely foreshortenedher. [VERB noun] ...a steeply foreshortened view. [VERB-ed] 2. verb To foreshorten something means to make it shorter than it would otherwise be. [literary] She felt that her husband's unexpected promotion foreshortened his life. [VERB noun] ...a foreshortened version of the opera. [VERB-ed] foreshorten in British English (fɔːˈʃɔːtən) verb (transitive) 1. to represent (a line, form, object, etc) as shorter than actual length in order to give an illusion of recession or projection, in accordance with the laws of linear perspective 2. to make shorter or more condensed; reduce or abridge foreshorten in American English (fɔrˈʃɔrtən) verb transitive 1. Drawing and Painting Etc to represent some lines of (an object) as shorter than they actually are in order to give the illusion of proper relative size, in accordance with the principles of perspective 2. to present in condensed form; abridge |
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