单词	foreshortened
释义	foreshortenedfore‧short‧ened /fɔːˈʃɔːtnd $ fɔːrˈʃɔːrtnd/ adjective formal Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Delaney focussed in on the waves piling up tightly one behind the other, like a huge wall in the foreshortened view. 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. Viewed from so high up, their bodies were foreshortened and hidden by the faces in front. Writer and educator George Leonard has described some of the dangers of a foreshortened perspective on time. 1objects, places etc that are foreshortened appear to be smaller, shorter, or closer together than they really are:  Viewed from high up, their bodies were oddly foreshortened.2ended before the usual or expected time:  a foreshortened career—foreshorten verb [transitive]
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