But he says the education system is "falling short" and "countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow."

VOA: special.2009.07.30

I'm a little short but I was doing OK. But I did do some research when I saw this book last year.

虽然款项很少，但是我还做得不错,我去年看这本书的时候，做了些调查。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I mean, this is, I could talk for hours on this, but I guess I'll keep it short.

我觉得我们可以就这个话题谈上几个小时，但我会简短一些。

喜欢环境法课程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But he agrees that in recent years, many companies have tied pay to short-term performance, instead of their long-term health.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

That I think is a real virtue but it can come at the price of demanding short term accountability.

我认为这是个优点，但是可能会,付出短期责任的代价。

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

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

But there may be ways of being pulled up short, occasions for being pulled up short, that Gadamer thinks exceed the imaginative grasp of a reader.

但葛达玛认为,有好几种“突然停下“的方法和场合，会超乎读者的想象，理解不了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But learning so much of it in such a short time, that's a big scramble -- and they have to know it from memory."

VOA: special.2011.07.11

She lived in New York for a short time, but she was afflicted with lupus, a very serious illness, and she died at the age of 39 in 1964.

她在纽约度过一段短暂的时光，但她饱受狼疮，一种严重疾病的折磨，最终逝世于1964年。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But she was just short of a majority, so she will face a runoff election.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

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

But an injury to his knee in nineteen fifty-eight ended his short career.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Of course death can be the final consequence of this, but even short of death, a number of very bad things can happen.

并有可能最终导致死亡,即使不考虑死亡,仍存在一系列的负面影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He kept people on a short leash, but the company did well.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

But the traing is pitifully short.

但是所有的训练都太短了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But his life was cut short by kidney problems.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

But, when you move from lending money to the government -either short-term with bills or longer term with bonds -to investing in the equity market, there's a stunning difference in terms of the returns.

当你转变投资方式,从借钱给政府,即通过短期债券或长期债券的形式,变成投资于股票市场,回报率的差别会大到让你吃惊

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But the Galapagos cormorant has extremely short wings.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

I guess this is what Hobbes meant by "Nasty, short, and brutish," Or whatever the fourth was. I don't remember, but what life was in the Thirty years' War, that was the way it was.

我猜这就是霍布斯所谓的,"污秽不堪,朝不保夕,野蛮不化",第四个我记不得了,三十年战争时期的生活就是如此

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But they were short by comparison with today.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

They weren't very successful in growing it in huge amounts, but that short stapled cotton that eventually was the form of cotton that the cotton gin made into such a massive, marketable world product, is what made the cotton boom boom.

岛上的居民想大规模种植但没有成功,因而海岛棉,这种粗绒棉,逐渐成为了棉花产业的主流,轧棉机的发明成为了种可大量生产,且有利可图的产品,也因而棉花产业越来越兴盛

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But American English values short, strong sentences.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

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

but others include short sayings.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

You've read the short article he has in the Jewish Study Bible, but he's also written about this at great length in other places.

你们已经读到过他在《犹太读经》里的短文，在其他的地方他也写过这些伟大的语句。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But during that game, he walked All Star Sammy Sosa early in the match, and fell short of a perfect game.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

So it's a short problem set, but make sure you know how to do those problems.

因此这是个小问题集,但是确保你懂怎么解决这些问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But,there will not be enough vaccine for everyone and there are fears that the developing countries will be short-changed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

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

But the message isn't that optimistic sort of that life is short, enjoy it. It's more that the past is no good to us and we can't rekindle the past.

但是其所传达的信息并不是乐观的，不是那种,生命短暂，尽情享受的想法，此外,过去于我们无益，我们也无法使昔日之火复燃。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选