Agreeing on your technical solution may take quite some time, so you need to narrow the task to something that can be defined and agreed to in a short time.

赞同和接受您的技术解决方案也许会花费一些时间，所以您需要将任务细分为可以在一个短时间内定义和同意的。

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Your practice may be quite short if you simply walk to the mailbox, or it may be long if you incorporate your practice into a weekend hike through the woods.

当你只是去自家邮箱，你的默想就可能很短，而当你周末在森林里徒步旅行，你的行走默想就可能很长。

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The PS3, in short, will not be the moneyspinner[3] that the PS2 was for quite some time, and it seems unlikely to achieve the market share of its predecessors.

简言之，PS3不会像PS2那样在相当一段时间内为索尼带来滚滚财源，并且似乎也不可能达到PS2的市场占有率。

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"What's on the table so far is quite limited and quite short term, when it needs to be large and long term,".

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The short-term risk to the company would actually be quite low, because research shows that users in all kinds of situations overwhelmingly choose default options.

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