shorten; reduce;〔切りつめる〕curtail, cut (down) ((on))
- 労働時間の短縮
- a reduction in working hours
- 操業短縮
- a 「cutback in [curtailment of] operations
- 新しい鉄道ができて,半島一周旅行が3時間短縮された
- The new railroad shortened [reduced] the time needed for a tour around the peninsula by three hours.
- 7月10日から授業を短縮して行う
- School hours will be shortened beginning on July 10.
- 授業時間は45分に短縮された
- The length of a class period was cut to forty-five minutes.
- 記事を200語に短縮させられた
- I was made 「to condense my article into [to cut my article down to] two hundred words.