| 单词 | shorthand |
| 释义 | shorthand noun[U] uk/ˈʃɔːt.hænd/us/ˈʃɔːrt.hænd/(alsostenography)asystemoffastwriting that useslinesandsimplesignstorepresentwords andphrases: 速记（法）Theirconversationswere taken downinshorthand by asecretary.他们谈话的内容由一位秘书速记了下来。 Lettering & alphabets
Idiomshorthand forsomething shorthand| American Dictionaryshorthand noun[U] us/ˈʃɔrtˌhænd/asystemoffastwriting, usinglinesandsymbolstorepresentletters, words, andphrases shorthand| Business Englishshorthand noun[U] uk/ˈʃɔːthænd/usWORKPLACE,MEETINGS(alsostenography) asystemof writing that useslinesandsymbolstorepresentwords and is used torecordwhat someone says as they arespeaking: do/know shorthandI couldn't do shorthand so they said they couldn'thireme as asecretary. in shorthandToday'ssecretariesare just aslikelytotelltheirbosshow to use alaptopas to take aletterin shorthand. be shorthand for sth to be ashortorquickway of referring to something: Wi-fi is shorthand forwirelessfidelity. to be another way of saying that something has aparticularquality: With someproducts"made in the U.S.A."remainsshorthand forreliability. Examplesofshorthandshorthand The phrases 'badly off ' and 'well off ' are just useful placeholders, or imprecise shorthands that stand for a range of levels of well-being. From theCambridge English Corpus Time-tables have been entirely altered, there are long queues of exasperated people held up at the stations, and the railway clerks who are shorthanded are now faced with this burden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Even if ' verb ' is taken here as ashorthandfor ' argument-taker ', it may be thought that no harm is done, because prototypical argument-takers are verbs. From theCambridge English Corpus The team was the least penalized team during the regular season, being shorthanded only 375 times. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A major exception is when a team is shorthanded. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theshorthandexp() will also denote a generic random variable with that distribution. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, a program containing variables is considered as ashorthandof its ground instantiation. From theCambridge English Corpus Instead of introducing that definition, we can treat any program with weight constraints asshorthandfor its translation []. From theCambridge English Corpus The militia was shorthanded during the battle, as most of the fort's detachment were not present. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The penalized team can not replace the player on the floor and is thus shorthanded for the duration of the penalty. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The chief points of the indictment were encapsulated in theshorthandof book indexers. From theCambridge English Corpus As we have seen, they areshorthandsymbols serving to indicate the emotive quality attached to an utterance. From theCambridge English Corpus Linguists use family tree diagrams as a form of pictorialshorthandto illustrate the relationship and development of languages and groups of languages within families. From theCambridge English Corpus As ashorthand, it is sometimes necessary to refer to class as relative positioning. From theCambridge English Corpus We have already cited examples of this approach : advertisements that value older people as individuals rather than asshorthandsymbols of age. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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