柯林斯詞典foreshorten /f??????t?n/ (foreshortening,foreshortened,foreshortens) 1. V-T To foreshorten someone or something means to draw them, photograph them, or see them from an unusual angle so that the parts of them that are furthest away seem smaller than they really are. 以透眡法縮短(描繪對象) She could see herself in the reflecting lenses, which had grotesquely foreshortened her. 她可以在反射鏡頭中看到自己被怪異地縮短了。 返回 foreshorten劍橋詞典to reduce something or make it shorter 減少；縮短 Smoking was certainly one of the factors that foreshortened his life . 吸菸無疑是縮短他壽命的因素之一。 art specialized to draw , paint , or photograph people or objects to make them seem smaller or closer together than they really are （繪畫或攝影）用透眡法縮小（或縮短） 返回 foreshorten