cut short

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cut short 的定义

  1. Abbreviate, stop abruptly, as in The thunderstorm cut short our picnic, or She cut her short, saying she'd already heard the story of their breakup. Shakespeare used this term to mean “put a sudden end to someone's life”: “Rather than bloody war shall cut them short”, a less common usage today. The broader usage dates from the mid-1600s.

cut short 近义词

v. 动词 verb

stop earlier than intended

更多cut short例句

  1. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  2. In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
  3. The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.
  4. In short, fatherhood gets little attention in policy debates.
  5. But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.
  6. If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
  7. Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.
  8. Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.
  9. He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
  10. They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.