Tape Measure Murder is a short story by Agatha Christie.

《卷尺谋杀》是阿加莎·克里斯蒂的短篇小说。

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In short, the nation's central measure of economic well-being works like a calculating machine that adds but cannot subtract.

简而言之，衡量国家经济福祉的核心指标就像一台计算器，只能增加，不能减少。

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A stop-gap measure merely serves as a commodious addition to some short-sighted result-driven politicians.

一项权宜之计只是为一些目光短浅、以结果为导向的政客提供了方便。

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So-called "ventricular support" devices are nothing new, but the previously cumbersome size meant that they could only remain in the patient for only a few months, so were used as a short-term measure to keep desperately ill patients alive until a transplant organ could be found.

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Republicans should have, in our view, done what they had done just a few months before, which is pass a short-term measure to delay implementation of the sequester, a measure that would have represented the balance that the public supports, asking the well-off and well-to-do to pay a little bit, not just seniors and middle-class families, and that then regular order could have continued as it is now, but without the sequester.

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But it said passing a short-term measure added "unnecessary complications" and "needlessly" perpetuated fiscal uncertainty.

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