1.if something in a picture is foreshortened, it seems shorter or smaller than it is
1.God, clothed in flowing red robes, is viewed from below and foreshortened, and seems to be rising into the sky.
画中的上帝穿著飘逸的红袍，作画的角度由下往上，采用透视缩短画法，看似正在升天。
2.In this case, the foreshortened meteor flash is right of frame center, below the curving limb of the Earth and a layer of greenish airglow.
在这种情况下，缩短的流星对框架的中心，在弯曲的肢体的地球和一层绿色的气辉。
3.I swiftly recalibrated my expectations, greedily pocketing the news that my life would not be sharply foreshortened.
但我迅速调整了预期，贪婪的享受着自己的生命并不会快速终结的消息。
4.Moving clocks run slow. Lengths are foreshortened along the direction of motion.
运动中的时钟运行是缓慢的，沿着运动的方向长度是缩短的。
5.The horizon of the private actors was foreshortened as well.
私人行为体也同样存在目光短浅的情况。
6.He was at that height of excitement from which everything is foreshortened.
他是那样兴奋，激动，在这一激情中，一切东西都凝缩了。
7.Thus there are in mediaeval art all kinds of forms which, from a purely technical point of view, may be described as "foreshortened. "
于是以纯技术性的眼光看来中世纪各种形式的艺术都有“短缩”效应。
8.The other's clock runs slow and the other's meter stick is foreshortened.
对方的钟走慢了，对方的米尺缩短了。
9.Seen from our planet, the view of Saturn's ringsduring equinox is extremely foreshortened and limited.
从我们的行星看去，在昼夜平分点时的土星环的面貌非常的狭窄和有限。