"Short-termism" or the desire for quick profits, has worsened in publicly traded companies, says the Bank of England's top economist, Andrew Haldane.
英国央行首席经济学家安德鲁·霍尔丹表示，“短期主义”或快速获利的欲望在上市公司中已经加剧了。
Why are women in short supply at the top of government and business in the United States?
为什么在美国政府和企业的高层职位中女性如此稀少呢？
So why, then, are women in short supply at the top of government and business in the United States?
那么，为什么女性在美国政府和企业的高层职位中供不应求呢？
I climbed to the top of a small rise and realised that the mist was little more than a few feet deep, and though it was only a short climb, I found myself completely above it and looking at a wonderfully clear view of Skiddaw with the sun setting in the west.
我爬到一个小山坡的顶部，发现薄雾只有几英尺深，虽然只是小段的攀登，但我发现自己完全位于雾气的上方，伴着夕阳西下，我看到了斯基多峰非常清晰的景色。
The dividing up of this stream into different patterns often repeating, of longs and short is superimposing rhythm over top of this basic beat which is organized in terms of these meters.
对于节拍流不同部分的拆分，是经常重复的，也是有长有短的，这就是在基本拍的基础上的旋律叠加，也就是说是以这些拍子为组织依据的。
A laser beam like the one pictured up top combines short and long pulses of light to identify individual molecules with a high degree of precision from a safe distance.
一道激光射线由或短或长的光脉冲组合而成，从而能在一个安全的距离高精度地辨别单个的分子。
When I saw two glaring car headlights at the top of her street (which I had not noticed a very short time earlier) I once again started to freak out.
当我看到街的尽头有两个耀眼的车灯时（就在很短的时间之前，我还没有看到有灯在亮），我又一次害怕了。
They burst out of the chute at top speed only to be stopped short — clotheslined — with a choking rope around the neck.
它们以最高的速度冲出围栏，没想到会被用一根绳子勒住脖子而突然停止。
Although it is hard to predict how the league will look post-lockout, let's assume the top teams will mostly have stability in their rosters for the short-term.
尽管很难预测在这次的停摆过后，联盟将会是什么样子的，让我们呢来假设大多数的顶级球队依旧保持了自己的最佳阵容的完整性。
Detroit has a very short and violent history, it rose to the very top in 50 years, and fell to the very bottom within 50 years as well. It would not be a surprise to see it rise again.
底特律的历史短暂而又轰轰烈烈，它崛起用了50年，衰落也用了50年，想看到它再次崛起也并不奇怪，对此我们很乐观。
The US falls short of the top 20 but other economically-advanced countries are ranked lower.
美国未能进入前20名，但其它一些经济发达的国家排名更低。
After 100 years and thousands of patents, it is difficult, if not impossible, to come up with a short list of IBM s top patents.
经过100年，每年有数千项专利，要列出一个IBM的“顶级”专利清单是非常困难。
Newsy shows the potential for video aggregators on the iPad, by offering up short 2-3 minute summaries of top news stories.
Newsy就作为iPad视频聚合器就体现出了很大的潜力，它能够提供2 - 3分钟的热门新闻的短片集合。
Facebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives, a top scientist believes.
一位顶尖科学家认为，Facebook和Twitter令新一代人变得自恋、注意力短暂，而且像小朋友那样，渴望得到别人对他们生活的持续回应。
Trend-followers can get “whipsawed” in volatile markets, buying at the top of a short-term trend and then selling at a loss shortly afterwards.
在易变化的市场中，趋势投资者可能遭市场洗盘，在一个短期升势的顶部买入，不久之后被迫割肉卖出。
The table has a short but descriptive title, there are some filters, and table headers are shown both at the top and the bottom.
这个表有一个简短的描述性标题，表的顶端和底部放置了表头和条件过滤器。
Near the top of the short list of places in our solar system that might harbor extraterrestrial life is Jupiter’s rocky moon Europa.
在短短的外星生命或有星球列表上，接近表上端的位置有一个地点：木星的卫星——巉岩耸峙的欧罗巴。
And for a short few months, his computer company was on top of the world, with one of the steepest revenue growth curves ever seen.
在仅仅几个月的时间里，他的电脑公司成为了世界顶级，给他带来了前所未见的丰厚回报增长。
On top of that, the shopping frenzy is likely to be short-lived.
最重要的是，购物狂潮很可能是短期的。
A private Swiss foundation launched a worldwide poll in January to choose the new top seven wonders from 21 sites.A jury short-listed the 21 from the original 77 selected by the foundation.
今年1月，瑞士一个民间基金会发起了一项面向全球的“世界新七大奇迹”评选活动，入围的21个世界名胜古迹是评委会从基金会筛选出的77个古迹中评选出来的。
The recent retreat in commodity prices will help, but Kenya’s top short-term priority will be to keep a grip on the public finances.
最近的物价下跌对经济有所缓解，但是肯尼亚的短期首要目标将会注重公共财政。
The partnership has fallen far short of its goal to create the world's top-selling TV maker.
他们的合伙未能实现成为世界畅销TV制造商的夙愿。
If it has to be roses, stores charge top dollar for long-stemmed red, so maybe pink and short-stemmed will do.
要是必须得玫瑰，长茎的红玫瑰最贵，可以选粉红色短茎玫瑰。
The briefing given to Buzzman, the Paris-based creative agency behind the campaign, defined its goals as: ‘To raise short-term brand awareness and to be on top of customers’ shopping lists.
广告幕后，位于巴黎的制作方Buzzman收到的简报中这样描述其目标：“提高短期品牌知名度，在消费者的购物单上排在头位。
A new entrant to this year's top 10, this Spanish language short movie was released March 26, 2006 and has notched up 76, 502, 726 views to date.
这是今年TOP10中一个新的晋级视频，这个西班牙语的短片公布于2006年三月并且迄今为止已创造了76502726次的点击量。
But long story short, if I want to use a function called sleep, — the reason I, the programmer, knew to use that library — — that header at the top — because it told me to in this little synopsis.
但长话短说，如果我想要用一个叫做sleep的功能，我作为程序员知道使用那个函数库-，上面的标题-，因为在这个小的大纲中它告诉我。
The staircase was short, and they were soon at the top.
梯子是短的，他们一下子就到了顶上。
In short, I don't think there is any real alternative to building a tiered implementation on top of the JVM simply because of the semantic mismatch between ruby and the JVM.
简而言之，我不认为有什么别的选择能在JVM上构建分层的Ruby实现，原因很简单，Ruby和JVM之间在语义上并不匹配。
The highest revenue estimate among analysts polled Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S fell $900 million short of Apple's total, while the top earnings-per-share estimate undershot by 61 cents.
这是分析师对苹果最高的收入预测，而ThomsonReutersI/B/E/S的预测则比苹果总收入要少9亿美元，其中预测的每股收益比实际少61%。
The highest revenue estimate among analysts polled Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S fell $900 million short of Apple's total, while the top earnings-per-share estimate undershot by 61 cents.
这是分析师对苹果最高的收入预测，而ThomsonReutersI/B/E/S的预测则比苹果总收入要少9亿美元，其中预测的每股收益比实际少61%。
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