Some passengers who were among the first to undergo increased screening said they faced extensive searches in Paris, but shorter delays at Dulles Internatonal Airport outside of Washington.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

All right so I probably should have chosen a shorter number 71 because now I can't figure it in here, but let's call it 71.

好的，我可能应该选择一个更短的数字,因为我不能指出它，我把它叫做。

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but people are shorter-tempered, but just seem more irritable

但是人们脾气更暴躁，更容易发怒。

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But Dr.Brown says fingertips are not often reattached if they are the length of a fingernail or shorter.

VOA: special.2011.02.02

So if we look at its length, it's actually shorter than a single bond, but longer than a double bond.

因此如果我们看它的键长的话，它实际上比单键更短，却比双键更长。

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Others who want to graduate in three years must pay for the same education as four-year students, but in a shorter period of time.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

If you're writing a one line function, whose sole purpose in life is addition, and, clearly, this is about addition, well, then it's, in fact, A reasonable to use a shorter symbol like A, but I do have to specify it's type.

如果你在写一个一行的函数，它唯一的目的是,做加法，显然这是关于加法的，好的，实际上，用一个短的标识符是合理的，像，但是我必须指明它的类型。

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Yeah. Log. It's a good think, but why do you think it's log? Ah-ha. It's not a bad instinct, the length is getting shorter each time, but what's one of the characteristics of a log algorithm? It drops in half each time.

对了，对数，这是个好想法,但是你们为什么认为是对数呢？,啊哈，这样的本能不错，每次长度都会缩小些,但是对数算法的特性是什么。

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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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