Short skirts are already out.

短裙已经过时了。

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The wires had short-circuited and burnt out.

电线短路，烧坏了。

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I started out to write a short story, but it soon developed into a novel.

我起先打算写一篇短篇小说，但很快就写成了长篇小说。

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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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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

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Still, there are benefits to having short-sellers out there, as the authors point out.

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When the cash runs out, the powers-that-be take out short-term, high-interest loans, guaranteed against future oil production.

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When savings rates rise, but savers hoard, rather than invest, the central bank pushes its newly created money out of short-run credit markets and out into the whole yield curve.

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