His decision gives Democrats a 59-seat majority, one short of the 60 necessary to overcome Republican attempts to block legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

The first paper is going to ask you to write about one short poem; the second will ask you to write about two or more poems, or poems perhaps by two authors, or perhaps a poem and some other kind of text or image.

第一篇论文会要求你们介绍一篇短诗;,另一篇则是要求描述几首诗，或者是任意两位作者的诗，又或者是一首诗以及一篇课文或者一幅图画。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

but just visiting or like, for like one month maybe, short time,

但如果只是旅行，短时间住上一个月的话，

伦敦生活的优缺点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

Listen to how quickly Yeats modulates from one feeling, one image, to another in these really very short, quick, three-beat lines.

听一听叶芝是怎么快速地,从一种情绪，一个情景中，转换到另一个里去的,就在这些三音韵的短诗句中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He wrote several long poems, but is best known for his one hundred and fifty-four short poems,or sonnets.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

So I thought I'd begin with a short note that one of your classmates sent to me earlier this week.

我从这周早些时候,你们其中一个同学给我的一张字条开始。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This online service lets people send short messages that are no more than one hundred forty letters long.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

I think one of the most pervasive problems in the financial markets is investment with too short a time horizon.

我认为金融市场上,最为普遍的问题,就是投资期限太短

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In one boxcar, a short man with long, curly brown hair is playing a guitar and singing.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

One is a sort of short-term type of prediction and that is looking at investing and purchasing products.

其中一个区域主管短期预测,主要在投资和购买物品时发挥作用。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

One of America's best-loved writers of short stories was William Sydney Porter -- better known as O.Henry.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

Something might be short at one point and become tall at another point, ugly at one point and become beautiful-- like the ugly duckling.

一个事物可能在某一时刻很矮,然后在另一时刻又会变高,某一时刻很丑,然后变得很美,就像丑小鸭一样

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She wrote seven books and more than one hundred short stories, plays and articles for magazines.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Okay. I can't read it but two minutes and fifty seconds, two minutes--this one's only two minutes, three minutes and twenty seconds, that kind of thing.They're short, whereas Beethoven,as mentioned,is much longer.

好，我读不出但是它唱2分50秒，两分钟，这首歌只有两分钟，3分20秒，基本都是这么长，它们都很短，但是我们刚才说的贝多芬就要长的多。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In Aceh Province alone,up to one hundred seventy thousand unsuspecting people died in a short time.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Consider one thinker, and I will, I'm going to read you a short passage and I'm going to come back to this again later in the semester, from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, chapter 31 of Leviathan, where Hobbes gives us a very personal statement about his intention in writing this book.

细想以下这一位思想家，我将朗读一小段文章,然后在学期后段,再回到这个主题来，这是取自贺伯斯的《利维坦》,第，31，章，贺伯斯提供了十分贴切的陈述,关于他撰写本书的动机。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He would be launched early in May,nineteen sixty-one, on a short,fifteen minute flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Gadamer acknowledges this, even insists on it as I say, but he doesn't lay stress on it because the gap that is implied in the need to be pulled up short is not a big one.

葛达玛承认，甚至坚持这点，正如我所说的，但他并不强调这个,因为“突然停下“所暗含的缺口,并不大。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

More than one-hundred men from every part of the United States had come to that little camp stopping there for a short time on their way to getting rich.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

One of the great short stories of the last century begins with a sentence by Franz Kafka: "As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

上世纪最伟大的短篇小说之一,弗朗茨·卡夫卡所写的名篇是这样开头的,"一天早晨,格里高尔·萨姆沙,从不安的睡梦中醒来,发现自己躺在床上,变成了一只巨大的甲虫"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"In short, our intelligence community needs to work as one integrated team that produces quality,timely and accurate intelligence.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

It, too, is pretty short, but take a look at what this one does.

它也很短，但先看看,这个是干什么的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It finds that 7.4 million people, or nearly one-third of the population, are short of food.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

You don't have to do this for Wednesday but let's say for next Monday, and that is: I'd like you to memorize a short poem by Yeats or by Frost, either one.

你们不用今天做,下星期一吧：,我想让你们背一首短诗,叶芝或者弗罗斯特的都行。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The men are kept in a high-security prison near Livingston,Texas, a short drive from Huntsville, where the execution chamber, known as Ellis Unit One is housed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

What caused--that's the-- I wanted to show you one city -I actually do a short comparison between a couple of cities -Los Angeles and Milwaukee.

原因是什么,我给你们看看一座城市,我在两座城市之间做了个简单比较,洛杉矶和密尔沃基

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But this was less than one percent short of the two-thirds majority the ANC had campaigned for and four percentage points less than it won in elections five years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

The markets are saying they're going to go all the way back to one, which was the low for short-term rates.

市场正在表明,他们将会全力以赴回归到，短期利率很低的时代。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选