foreshortened

fore·short·ened /fɔːˈʃɔːtnd $ fɔːrˈʃɔːrtnd/ adjectiveadj formal

1 SMALLNEARobjects, places etc that are foreshortened appear to be smaller, shorter, or closer together than they really are 〔事物、地方等显得〕缩小的

Viewed from high up, their bodies were oddly foreshortened.

从高处往下看，他们的身体小得出奇。

2 ended before the usual or expected time 缩短的

a foreshortened career

提前结束的职业生涯

—foreshorten verb [transitiveT]

Examples from the Corpus

foreshortened• Viewed from so high up, their bodies were foreshortened and hidden by the faces in front.• Seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened and its true proportions are best appreciated from a distance.• The logo, a life study of a foreshortened figure, represents an ideal of development.• Writer and educator George Leonard has described some of the dangers of a foreshortened perspective on time.• Delaney focussed in on the waves piling up tightly one behind the other, like a huge wall in the foreshortened view.

词汇	foreshortened
释义	foreshortened fore·short·ened /fɔːˈʃɔːtnd $ fɔːrˈʃɔːrtnd/ adjectiveadj formal 1 SMALLNEARobjects, places etc that are foreshortened appear to be smaller, shorter, or closer together than they really are 〔事物、地方等显得〕缩小的 Viewed from high up, their bodies were oddly foreshortened. 从高处往下看，他们的身体小得出奇。 2 ended before the usual or expected time 缩短的 a foreshortened career 提前结束的职业生涯 —foreshorten verb [transitiveT] Examples from the Corpus foreshortened• Viewed from so high up, their bodies were foreshortened and hidden by the faces in front.• Seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened and its true proportions are best appreciated from a distance.• The logo, a life study of a foreshortened figure, represents an ideal of development.• Writer and educator George Leonard has described some of the dangers of a foreshortened perspective on time.• Delaney focussed in on the waves piling up tightly one behind the other, like a huge wall in the foreshortened view.
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