short
美[ʃɔ:rt] adv.突然；唐突地；简短地；横贯地
n.短裤；短路；缺乏
vt.故意少给…的零头，骗取
vi.短路
网络短；短暂；短的；短路
1 . I use the short -wave radio to get the latest war news.
我用短波收音机收听最新的战事新闻。
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2 . The letter was short — a simple recitation of their problem.
信写得很短——只是简单地说了一下他们的问题。
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3 . They've come a long way in a short space of time.
他们在很短的时间之内就大老远地赶了过来。
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4 . There was a net outflow of about £50m in short -term capital.
短期资金净流出额大约为5,000万英镑。
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5 . I'll run over to Short Mountain and check on Mrs Adams.
我会开车去肖特山看看亚当斯夫人。
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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
4.primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration;
a short life
5.primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length;
short skirts
6.low in stature; not tall;
his was short and stocky
7.not sufficient to meet a need;
an inadequate income
8.not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices;
a short sale
9.of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')
10.containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes;
shortbread is a short crumbly cookie
11.less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so;
a light pound
12.used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
13. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range;
a short memory
14. lacking foresight or scope;
a short view of the problem
15. unwilling to endure;
she was short with the slower students
16. quickly aroused to anger;
a hotheaded commander
17. most direct;
took the shortest and most direct route to town
18. marked by rude or peremptory shortness;
try to cultivate a less brusque manner
19.quickly and without warning;
he stopped suddenly
20.without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold;
he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash
21.clean across;
the car's axle snapped short
22.at some point or distance before a goal is reached;
he fell short of our expectations
23.so as to interrupt;
She took him up short before he could continue
24.at a disadvantage;
I was caught short
25.tightly;
she caught him up short on his lapel
26.in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner;
he told me curtly to get on with it
1.cheat someone by not returning him enough money
2.create a short-circuit in