Do you like it or would you prefer something shorter? A shorter name would be more convenient on a sign.

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We see that the radius is shorter, so that means that the nitrogen-nitrogen bond is going to be shorter.

我们看到这个距离更短，这就意味着,氮与氮之间的键应该更短。

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We can also think about the distance, the bond distance. So, which would you say is going to be shorter in this case?

我们还可以考虑一下距离，键的距离那么，大家认为其中哪一个键会更短一些？

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Why shouldn't it be shorter? Why shouldn't it be longer?

为什么一个故事的经过不可以短一点或者长一点？

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with a piece of popular music you get a single ethos, a single feeling,a single mood associated with the piece, and the piece will tend to be shorter.

在流行乐里，一首歌只表达一个中心思想，一种感觉，一种情绪，所以这首作品也就会短小一些。

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With the army, I think it could be shorter.

加上军队，我想这个时间应该会短些。

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In Canada, the mortgages tend to be shorter term.

在加拿大,抵押贷款往往短一些

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Now there's a lot of variation in that: men would be different from women, taller more then shorter, all that sort of thing, but nonetheless let's just use that as a reference.

当然随情况会有不同变化,男人需要的比女人多,高的比矮的多,像这类情况,但我们用这数据做个参考

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So Player i's payoff "Ui," depends on all the choices in the class, in this case, including her own choice. Of course, a shorter way of writing that would be "Ui," it depends on the profile.

参与人i的收益Ui,由所有参与人的策略决定,当然也包括她自己的策略,简写应该是Ui,它由策略组合决定

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Is a hydrogen bond shorter, or is a nitrogen-nitrogen triple bond going to be shorter?

是氢的键更短，还是氮与氮的三键更短？

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