The men who had forced Luke Short out of town decided to negotiate a settlement.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

It's deliberate that a lot of the examples in lecture are fairly short and bite-size so that you can actually focus on pulling out the key ideas without getting distracted by line and lines of code.

很多的演讲中的例子,是短小的,因此你们可以集中于提取其中的主要思想,而不是被一行行的代码给分心。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

You can write it out, you can speak it, you can talk as long as you want, as short as you want.

可以写出来或说出来，多长都行，多短也行。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"Let's hope that that is a short term, temporary situation and that BP will revert to paying their dividends out in full."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Let's assume that the user typed in a pretty short word we didn't run out of memory or anything crazy so here's the new feature.

假设用户输入,很短的单词，没有出现超出内存之类的问题,这里是新的特点。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Some centrist Democrats, such as Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, also criticized the way the president rolled out the new defense plan, and some questioned the intelligence behind the change in strategy to focus moreon short and mid-range missiles from Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

In short, Machiavelli claims these were founders who created, in a way, ex nihilo, out of nothing.

简而言之,马奇亚维利主张这些人是创造者，换句话说即从无到有。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If I short the one-period bond it cancels out, so I've made no net purchase in 1925.

卖空一单位一年期债券则刚好抵消,所以我在1925年的净买入为零

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Too much, there's no spark. Too little, you short out. Right?

若间隙太大，不会有火花，若间隙太小，会短路，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Gets off Scott free in five years when the other guy gets out, he might run into a situation where Yeah, so a short version of that is, it's a different kind of contract.

其中一个跑掉了,但是五年后,坐牢的就会回来报复,对,简而言之,这不是一般的协议

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选