The two time periods tested whether people were more likely to act differently in the short term than in the long term.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Short long, short long, short long, short long, short long, short long, short long.

短长,短长,短长,短长,短长,短长,短长

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He's seen me work on long assignments, short assignments, very analytic assignments, very not so analytic assignments.

他见过我处理一些长期任务，短期任务，一些需要大量分析的任务，还有一些不怎么需要分析的任务。

写推荐书的人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There are also two Japanese swords, one long and one short, that were made in the fourteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

They are quite unlikable, and this is consistent pretty much across O'Connor's fiction : short, long, medium, whatever.

他们一点都不可爱，这些由始至终贯穿于她的作品里：,短篇的，长篇的，中篇的，无论哪种都是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.02.06

If we have a high frequency, what about the wavelength, long or short? All right. Good. So we should always be able to keep these relationships in mind.

如果频率高，那波长是长还是短？,好，不错，我们要记住这些关系,类似的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

With the Tchaikovsky they--all the intervals are the--the durations are the same, but with the Beethoven, short, short, short, long.

柴可夫斯基的乐曲中,所有和弦的时值都是一样的,但贝多芬的乐曲里,却是短音,短音,短音,长音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.06.13

It consists of a promise to pay, usually denominated in currency, and there are both long-term and short-term debt instruments.

是一种付款承诺,通常是货币支付形式,有长期债券,以及短期债券

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Whatever he is called, he is still the same short,fat, jolly old man with a long beard, wearing a red suit with white fur.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

But there's more, and this is why novels are long: - not too long, not too short, but of a certain length-- of a certain magnitude, as Aristotle puts it.

但是当然还有很多别的东西，要不这本书也不会那么长：,不是太长，但也不短，刚刚好能说明清楚问题的长度-,亚里士多德这么评价。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There are four kinds of echidnas: three species are long-nosed, while another has a short nose.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

You can write it out, you can speak it, you can talk as long as you want, as short as you want.

可以写出来或说出来，多长都行，多短也行。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The results suggested that people do act differently if they think they are working with a group for a short period of time instead of a long period.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

In this case, to optimize for the best of the whole community and the whole user base and over the long term and that's important too, your long over short term.

在这个前提下,去寻求整个社会,以及所有用户的长远利益的最大化,这十分重要，我们寻求长期利益，而非眼前利益。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

It had rows of long teeth and ten very short legs.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

So in the sense there is opportunity, and there may be more opportunity in the long run even if kind of the entrepreneurial opportunities are less frothy than they might have been in the short run.

因此从这个意义上讲现在是大好时机，长期来看会有更多的机遇,如果创业的机会不像短期机遇,看起来那么空洞的话。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Yet that short war led to long-term changes for America.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

The topic for this week is cell communication: how mechanisms that cells within a complex organism use to communicate with each other at short distances or long distances.

本周的主题是细胞通讯,即在一个复杂机体中的细胞,采用何种交流机制,在或长或短的距离中相互联系

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Some lines are short. Some are long.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

So, part of the whole process is the elimination of these these municipal privileges and replacing municipal officials, to make a long story short, with people that they have appointed.

他们采取的一个办法,就是取消那些地方政府的特权,更换本土官员,简而言之,就是以近臣取而代之

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Scheduling decisions made well before the tournament have forced some teams to travel long distances and play on short rest.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The other weapon was a short sword that he kept at his side, which presumably he would not use so long as he had a spear, which was a better weapon.

另外一把武器是别在腰间的一柄短剑,当有矛在手时,可能就不会用到它,因为矛的杀伤力要比它强

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Short-range test launches are not formally prohibited under United Nations sanctions against the North, which forbid medium and long-range ballistic activities.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

short plays, long plays, comedy, dance.

短剧，长戏，喜剧，舞蹈剧。

正在准备庆典 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The $10-billion U.S.missile defense program involves a combination of systems designed to detect and intercept missiles coming from short,medium and long distances.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Four, short, short, short, long.

短音 短音 短音 长音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So, long story short after this fairly arcane syntax, the end result is completely straightforward, do the following 10 times.

如此看来，这个长篇故事经过这个奇异的语法规则，简化后就立马简单明朗了许多，只需要重复做10次就OK了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选