vt.按照透视法画；缩短；省略
You look at yourself from above and you look foreshortened. 你从上面往下看自己，就显得缩短了。
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。
In other words, troops are fighting across low ridges, operating distances are apt to be foreshortened. 换句话说，当部队突越较低的山岭时，交战距离通常缩短。
The shadowed crater is strongly foreshortened in this mosaic, a representative view of the region for earthbound telescopes. 阴影中的环形山是强烈的透视马赛克，是对地面天文望远镜专家的意见。
Or, perhaps, the reflected figure is the more perfect: disability in the mirror of art revolutionizes the idea of perfection to include the impairment of foreshortened limbs. 也许，倒影比本人更出色：艺术之镜折射出了残缺之美，利用透视画法缩短的四肢形成了身体上的残缺，对完美本来的概念进行了革命。
