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.
例句
She could see herself in the reflecting lenses, which had grotesquely foreshortened her.她能夠看到自己在反光鏡中被縮小的古怪形象。...a steeply foreshortened view.按透視原理縮小了許多的影像
VERB
節(jié)略;省略;縮短
To foreshorten something means to make it shorter than it would otherwise be.
例句
She felt that her husband's unexpected promotion foreshortened his life.她感覺丈夫的意外升遷縮短了他的人生。...a foreshortened version of the opera.歌劇的精簡版本