To cut a long story short, she found the jelly.

长话短说，她找到了果冻。

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On the way home from school she takes a short cut through a barley field where she is startled by a neighbor, Mr.Harvey.

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But it means to cut short, to cut short and therefore get in a little bit earlier.

意思是突然停止,突然停止,然后提前一点进入

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Indeed, forward markets are discounting a cut in short-term interest rates.

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Heady stuff, meeting and greeting the great and near-great, but, in 1984, his ambitions on hold long enough, Mr. Francesconi went to Italy to study conducting with Franco Ferrara, a tutorial cut short by the maestro's death.

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If a player tries to take a short cut it won't be anything that he hasn't seen in the past.

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