A good way to sound confident is to use short punchy sentences.

一个听上去充满自信的好方式，是要把话说在点子上。

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Use short, full, and commonly known words.

使用短的、完整的并且是大家都知道的单词。

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Use short names for queue managers and MQ objects.

对队列管理器和MQ对象使用短名称。

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Most of the stories were short. There was heavy use of color and images and things like opinion polls.

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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

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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

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You would no longer be able to use short-term GRATs to minimize that risk.

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Rather, long-term investors should use short-term declines in stock values to buy in.

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At the moment, the earth-observation satellites which employ microwaves generally use short-wavelength radiation, because this provides more detailed images.

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