例文・使い方で印象づける「shortening」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...This is a river which a civilised community would find of immense advantage for shortening the distance between the Tanganika and the coast... 
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The suspense we were doomed to undergo was more trying than when we were engaged in making or shortening sail, and the gale was blowing and the vessel tumbling about...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...“They are shortening sail,” observed Tubbs; “we shall soon have some one below to relieve us of this gentleman, and I’m thankful to say I don’t believe the ship’s going down just yet...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...In addition to the flour each received a piece of bacon or fat meat, from which they got the shortening for their biscuit...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
...As thebeetle crawls round and round, it will coil the thread about thenail, thus shortening its tether and drawing nearer to the centreat every circuit...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...By God, if Grantlinedoes not signal us, I will be likely toblame you—my patience is shortening...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930」
...For the shortening of his sleep at one enddid not mean that he could make it up at the other...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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