Professors sometimes reserve a few copies of their course's book, which you may be able to sign out short-term (a few hours to a few days).

有时教授可能会预留几本课本，不过你可以借短期（几小时到几天）。

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Both hold financial assets, like corporate debt, that have incurred losses, but the nature of insurers' liabilities should allow them to ride out short-term volatility.

两者持有的公司债一类的金融资产虽都已蒙受损失，但保险公司负债的性质应当可助他们渡过短期波动。

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Consultancies now put out short opinionated papers as well as data-laden reports such as BCG's recent one on wind power in China or PricewaterhouseCooper's on electronic health records.

而现如今的咨询公司，却提供短浅且无端的文件或数据过载的报告。正如最近波士顿咨询集团提供的关于中国风能的报告，以及普华永道会计师事务所做的电子健康记录。

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But he says the education system is "falling short" and "countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow."

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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。

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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。

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The good book says for momentum traders to go out short under that scenario!

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