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short
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  • 易混淆的单词：Short  

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1.   →see: Please look at category 24 to if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword. 以下义项中未列出的表达方式请参第24项。; 
2. ADJ-GRADED 短暂的;短促的;短期的 If something is short or lasts for a short time, it does not last very long. 

  • The announcement was made a short time ago...

    通告是不久前才宣布的。

  • How could you do it in such a short period of time?...

    你是怎么在如此短的时间里做到的？

  • Mr Annan took a short break before resuming his schedule...

    安南先生在继续自己的工作前先短暂休息了一下。

3. ADJ-GRADED 似乎过得很快的;短暂的 If you talk about a short hour, day, or year, you mean that it seems to have passed very quickly or will seem to pass very quickly. 

  • For a few short weeks there was peace...

    有过短短几周的和平。

  • Only five short years later, your money will have grown by $94,000.

    仅短短 5 年时间后，你的钱就会增多 94,000 美元。

4. ADJ-GRADED (演讲、信件、书等)短的，简短的 A short speech, letter, or book does not have many words or pages in it. 

  • They were performing a short extract from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona...

    他们正表演莎士比亚剧作《维洛那二绅士》中的一个片段。

  • This is a short note to say thank you.

    这是一封简短的致谢信。

5. ADJ-GRADED 矮的;个子矮的 Someone who is short is not as tall as most people are. 

  • I'm tall and thin and he's short and fat.

    我又高又瘦，他又矮又胖。

  • ...a short, elderly woman with grey hair...

    头发灰白的矮个子老妇人

  • He's the shortest of four brothers.

    他是四兄弟中个子最矮的。

6. ADJ-GRADED (距离、长度等)短的，不长的，不远的 Something that is short measures only a small amount from one end to the other. 

  • The city centre and shops are only a short distance away...

    市中心和商店离得很近。

  • A short flight of steps led to a grand doorway...

    一段短短的台阶通向一个气派的大门口。

  • His black hair was very short.

    他的黑发很短。

7. ADJ-GRADED 短缺的;不足的 If you are short of something or if it is short, you do not have enough of it. If you are running short of something or if it is running short, you do not have much of it left. 

  • Her father's illness left the family short of money...

    她父亲的病造成家里经济拮据。

  • Government forces are running short of ammunition and fuel...

    政府军的弹药和燃料都快用完了。

  • Supplies of everything are unreliable, food is short...

    各种补给都不稳定，食品也短缺。

8. ADJ 少于;不及;未达到 If someone or something is or stops short of a place, they have not quite reached it. If they are or fall short of an amount, they have not quite achieved it. 

  • He stopped a hundred yards short of the building...

    他在离大楼 100 码处停下了。

  • So what happens if the Socialists top the poll but fall short of an absolute majority?...

    那么如果社会党人得票领先却又未达到绝对多数，那会怎么样呢？

  • Inflation is just short of 11 per cent...

    通货膨胀接近 11％。

9. PREP-PHRASE 除…之外;没有;如果不 Short of a particular thing means except for that thing or without actually doing that thing. 

  • Short of climbing railings four metres high, there was no way into the garden from this road...

    除非爬过 4 米高的栏杆，否则从这条路没办法进到园子里。

  • They have no means, short of civil war, to enforce their will upon the minorities.

    他们只有通过内战才能将意志强加给少数派。

10. ADV 终止;中断;打断 If something is cut short or stops short, it is stopped before people expect it to or before it has finished. 

  • His glittering career was cut short by a heart attack...

    他辉煌的事业因心脏病发作而被迫终止。

  • Jackson cut short his trip to Africa...

    杰克逊提前结束了他的非洲之行。

  • His voice stopped short as he saw the blade emerge from Desmond's pocket.

    当他看到从德斯蒙德口袋里露出的刀刃时，他突然不吭声了。

11. ADJ 简略的;缩写的;简称的 If a name or abbreviation is short for another name, it is the short version of that name. 

  • Her friend Kes (short for Kesewa) was in tears...

    她的朋友凯斯(凯茜娃的简称)眼泪汪汪。

  • 'O.O.B.E.' is short for 'Out Of Body Experience'.

    O.O.B.E. 是 Out Of Body Experience (身外体验)的缩略形式。

12. ADJ-GRADED See also: short-tempered; 暴躁的;易怒的 If you have a short temper, you get angry very easily. 

  • ...an awkward, self-conscious woman with a short temper.

    脾气暴躁、笨拙又忸怩的女人

13. ADJ-GRADED 说话简短粗暴的;简慢无礼的 If you are short with someone, you speak briefly and rather rudely to them, because you are impatient or angry. 

  • She seemed nervous or tense, and she was definitely short with me.

    她似乎很焦虑，抑或是很紧张，对我明显很不客气。

14. PHRASE (尤指在一时找不到厕所的情况下)内急，突然感觉要上厕所 If you are caught short or are taken short, you feel a sudden strong need to urinate, especially when you cannot easily find a toilet. 
15. PHRASE 作为简称;作为缩写 If a person or thing is called something for short, that is the short version of their name. 

  • Opposite me was a woman called Jasminder (Jazzy for short)...

    我对面是一位名叫贾丝明德(简称杰丝)的女子。

  • This condition is called seasonal affective disorder, or SAD for short.

    这种病情叫做季节性情感失调症，或简称 SAD。

16. PHRASE 缺乏(尤指食物) If you go short of something, especially food, you do not have as much of it as you want or need. 

  • Some people may manage their finances badly and therefore have to go short of essentials.

    有些人可能极不善于理财，因而不得不缺衣少食地将就过活。

17. PHRASE 总之;简而言之 You use in short when you have been giving a lot of details and you want to give a conclusion or summary. 

  • Try tennis, badminton or windsurfing. In short, anything challenging...

    试试网球、羽毛球或帆板运动吧。总之，只要是有挑战性的。

  • She was surrounded by doctors, lawyers, housewives — people, in short, like herself.

    她被医生、律师、家庭主妇——总之是一群像她一样的人——所包围着。

18. PHRASE 可以说是;简直;无异于 You use nothing short of or little short of to emphasize how great or extreme something is. For example, if you say that something is nothing short of a miracle or nothing short of disastrous, you are emphasizing that it is a miracle or it is disastrous. 

  • The results are nothing short of magnificent...

    结果非常不错。

  • His last visit to Washington was little short of a fiasco.

    他最近对华盛顿的访问几乎是一场惨败。

19. PHRASE 冒傻气的;不聪明的;愚蠢的;不理智的 If you say that someone is, for example, several cards short of a full deck or one sandwich short of a picnic, you think they are stupid, foolish, or crazy. 
20. PHRASE 缺乏，缺少(某种优良品质) If someone or something is short on a particular good quality, they do not have as much of it as you think they should have. 

  • He was very short on enthusiasm...

    他太缺乏热情。

  • The proposals were short on detail.

    这些提议缺少细节。

21. PHRASE 险些(做…)；差点没(做…) If someone stops short of doing something, they come close to doing it but do not actually do it. 

  • He stopped short of explicitly criticizing the government...

    他几乎要直言批评政府了。

  • The resolution stopped short of an outright declaration of independence.

    这项决议几乎成为公开的独立宣言。

22. PHRASE (因雇主付不起全工时工钱而出现的)短工时，开工不足 If workers are put on short time, they are asked to work fewer hours than the normal working week, because their employer can not afford to pay them a full time wage. 

  • Workers across the country have been put on short time because of the slump in demand...

    因需求量大幅下降，全国的工人都开工不足。

  • Most manufacturers have had to introduce short-time working.

    大多数制造商不得不推行短工时工作制。

23. PHRASE 使突然终止;使突然中断 If something pulls you up short or brings you up short, it makes you suddenly stop what you are doing. 

  • The name on the gate pulled me up short.

    大门上的名字让我突然停了下来。

24. PHRASE 干净利落地处理(或打败);迅速解决 If you make short work of someone or something, you deal with them or defeat them very quickly. 

  • Agassi made short work of his opponent.

    阿加西干净利落地击败了对手。

25.   short of breath→see: breath;  at short notice→see: notice;  to sell someone short→see: sell;  to get short shrift→see: shrift;  to cut a long story short→see: story;  to draw the short straw→see: straw;  in short supply→see: supply;  in the short term→see: term; 
Noun

1. the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

2. accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base

Verb

1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money

2. create a short-circuit in

Adjective

1. primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration;

  • "a short life"
  • "a short flight"
  • "a short holiday"
  • "a short story"
  • "only a few short months"

2. primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length;

  • "short skirts"
  • "short hair"
  • "the board was a foot short"
  • "a short toss"

3. low in stature; not tall;

  • "his was short and stocky"
  • "short in stature"
  • "a short smokestack"

4. not sufficient to meet a need;

  • "an inadequate income"
  • "a poor salary"
  • "money is short"
  • "on short rations"
  • "food is in short supply"
  • "short on experience"

5. not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices;

  • "a short sale"
  • "short in cotton"

6. of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')

7. containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes;

  • "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"
  • "a short flaky pie crust"

8. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so;

  • "a light pound"
  • "a scant cup of sugar"
  • "regularly gives short weight"

9. used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration

10. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range;

  • "a short memory"

11. lacking foresight or scope;

  • "a short view of the problem"
  • "shortsighted policies"
  • "shortsighted critics derided the plan"
  • "myopic thinking"

12. unwilling to endure;

  • "she was short with the slower students"

13. quickly aroused to anger;

  • "a hotheaded commander"

14. most direct;

  • "took the shortest and most direct route to town"

15. marked by rude or peremptory shortness;

  • "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"
  • "a curt reply"
  • "the salesgirl was very short with him"
Adverb

1. quickly and without warning;

  • "he stopped suddenly"

2. without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold;

  • "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"

3. clean across;

  • "the car's axle snapped short"

4. at some point or distance before a goal is reached;

  • "he fell short of our expectations"

5. so as to interrupt;

  • "She took him up short before he could continue"

6. at a disadvantage;

  • "I was caught short"

7. tightly;

  • "she caught him up short on his lapel"

8. in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner;

  • "he told me curtly to get on with it"
  • "he talked short with everyone"
  • "he said shortly that he didn't like it"

体育

  • 1.短击
  • 2.短球
  • 3.短打法
  • 4.矮个子运动员
  • 5.游击手

土木工程

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  • 1.短期刚度
  • 2.short-term stiffness

大气科学

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  • 1.短期［天气］预报
  • 2.short-range ［wea-ther］ forecast 未来1—3天内的天气预报。

法律

  • 1.短缺
  • 2.买空

物理学

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  • 1.短程序
  • 2.short-range order, SRO
  • 3.短程密度
  • 4.short-range density
  • 5.短程力
  • 6.short-range force

电力

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  • 1.短路导纳矩阵
  • 2.short-circuit admittance matrix
  • 3.短枪冲洗工具
  • 4.short-gun washed tool
  • 5.股线间短路
  • 6.short-circuit between strands
  • 7.短路比
  • 8.short-circuit ratio
  • 9.短路电流计算
  • 10.short-circuit current calculation
  • 11.短路容量
  • 12.short-circuit capacity
  • 13.短路功率
  • 14.short-circuit power
  • 15.短路开关
  • 16.short-circuit switch
  • 17.短路特性测试
  • 18.short-circuit characteristic measurement
  • 19.短路电流倍数
  • 20.short-circuit current multiple
  • 21.短路电流容量
  • 22.short-circuit current capability
  • 23.近期需电量预测
  • 24.short-term demand forecast
  • 25.近区故障
  • 26.short-line fault, SLF

计算机

  • 1.短路；【修】短
1. "Long" is the antonym of "short".
“长”是“短”的反义词。

来自《简明英汉词典》

2. A funny answer might dry her up for a short time.
一个滑稽可笑的回答会使她短时间内说不下去。

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3. A mischievous cur must be tied short.
恶狗必须拴得短。

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. A short documentary prefaced the feature movie.
故事片开始前放映了一部短纪录片。

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. A short note put the matter right.
一封短函把事件解释清楚了。

来自《简明英汉词典》

6. A short time before, great trees had covered the countryside for miles around.
在那时不久之前，高大的树木覆盖着方圆数英里的地方。

来自《用法词典》

7. A short while ago, my sister helped me to carry one of my old bookcases up the stairs.
片刻之前，我妹妹帮我把我的一个旧书柜抬上了楼。

来自《用法词典》

8. After a short pause, he went on.
他顿了一下，又接着往下说。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

9. After a short rest the travelers pushed on towards the coast.
旅行者稍稍休息后，继续朝着海岸行进。

来自《简明英汉词典》

10. After a short rest,they took up their knapsacks and went on.
休息了一会儿之后，他们又背起背包上路了。

来自《简明英汉词典》

11. After only a short exposure to sunlight he began to turn red.
他在阳光下只晒了一会儿，皮肤就开始变红了。

来自《简明英汉词典》

12. Ann was strolling along aimlessly when I brought her up short by calling her name from the other side of the street.
安正在街上漫无目标地闲逛，我从街对面叫她，她便停了下来。

来自《简明英汉词典》

13. Art is long; life is short.
人生有限，技艺无穷。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

14. Be careful in that shop—they have a habit of short change.
小心那家商店——他们总是会少找钱。

来自《简明英汉词典》

15. Despite the fact that she is short, she is an excellent basketball player.
尽管她个子矮，却是个出色的篮球运动员。

来自《简明英汉词典》

16. Don's cut it too short.
不要把它剪得太短。

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

17. Don't cut the hair too short.
别把头发剪得太短了。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

18. Eggs are in short supply.
鸡蛋供应不足。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

19. Erna intends to take short rests every two hours.
欧娜打算每隔两小时休息片刻。

来自《用法词典》

20. Food is in short supply.
食物供应不足。

来自《简明英汉词典》