The shortest distance between two points is a straight line - unless you happen to be traveling in an airplane.

两点之间直线最短——航班却不走直线。

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The great-circle distance calculates the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of a sphere.

大圆弧长计算球面两点之间的最短距离。

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Since this sedimentary facies model consists of points in the vector space, zonation can be made according to the principle of "shortest distance" between vector points.

这种沉积相模型为矢量空间上的点，可以按矢量点之间的最短距离原则分层。

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In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.

也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。

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