The concert only lasted an hour, so we felt we were getting short measure.

音乐会仅仅持续了一个小时，让我们有一种缺斤少两的感觉。

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The shopkeeper gave me short measure.

店家给我的分量不足。

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That vegetable peddler often gives short measure.

那个菜贩经常短斤少两。

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When I compare Blackberry, and Amazon I see two companies at either end of this spectrum, one performing to please an investment community and executing to achieve some short term measure of success, and another that is less interested in that, but is more focused on a long term plan for the consumer.

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

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It is only a short-term measure, admits Gunter Reck, an adviser to the recently created environmental ministry.

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