a small number of candidates for a job, etc., who have been chosen from all the people who applied 入围名单 to draw up a shortlist 拟就入围名单 - shortlist for something
a shortlist for a literary prize 一项文学奖的入围名单 - on the shortlist (for something)
The film is on the shortlist for Best Picture. 这部电影入围最佳影片的决选。
Extra ExamplesThe interviewers have to draw up a shortlist of five or six people. 面试考官们得拟订一份 5 到 6 人的入围名单。 They will choose from a shortlist of seven candidates. 他们将在 7 个候选人中进行选择。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- final
- all-women
- compile
- draw up
- make
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- on a/the shortlist
- shortlist for
- shortlist of
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