It is a collection of linked short stories about the lives of very rich and very poor people in Pakistan.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

The same nations and the short life expectancy of birth probably the lowest quality of life in other areas.

这一数字在下降，在上述国家,新生儿预期寿命较短，某些区域生活质量极低。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

So in the short term, my future plans are to get some real human resources experience

短期内，我计划做一些人力资源方面的工作，积累经验，

事业和人生都重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Researchers in the United States say drinking a lot of alcohol over a short period may influence genes involved in bone formation.

VOA: special.2010.08.31

I'm perfectly capable of understanding the past in and for itself without any contribution of my own, without, in short, any preconceptions."

我十分能够理解过去,而没有自己的贡献，简单点说就是没有任何的先入之见“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Defense Secretary Gates says short- and medium-range missiles are now the more immediate threat to American forces in Europe and to allies.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

We did that, we came up with very good Chinese search engine technology, and we signed up a lot of the Chinese portals in a very short period of time.

我们开发了,很好的中文搜索引擎技术，并在短期内，和许多门户网站公司,签了合约。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

In a pawn transaction, the customer gets a short-term loan of about fifty to seventy-five percent of the value of an item.

VOA: special.2011.04.18

Well, there I might be factoring in the frontal lobe because much of the short-term memory in particular is in the frontal lobe.

那么,额叶会发挥作用,因为大部分的短期记忆,都由额叶进行处理

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The two time periods tested whether people were more likely to act differently in the short term than in the long term.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

The exams will be multiple choice and short answer, fill in the blank, that sort of thing.

题型分为单项选择,简答,还有填空之类的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There are also two Japanese swords, one long and one short, that were made in the fourteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

I think with all the problems in here and what's going on there, maybe the short sides of 10 years is what we looking at.

考虑到阿富汗现存的问题,以及阿富汗现在的情况，不到10年时间。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The meat came in containers with "U.S." written on them, which was short for the United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

All of these banks are really in control of short-term interest rates and these interest rates are used to try to manage and stabilize the economy.

所有国家的中央银行都可以,控制短期利率,通过控制短期率达到,管理和稳定经济的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The scientists say that studies based on the new genome may help explain, in the short-term, why the organism has been so aggressive.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

Moore, who revised her poems, just the same way she ended up binding her hair, republished this poem eventually in short form, very short, where three pages were reduced to two sentences.

穆尔，以和梳理她的发型的相同方式，将这首诗进行了改编，最终以极为简短的形式重新发表了这首诗，三张纸的诗被删到只剩下两句。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

A new study says the weight they gain may increase their diabetes risk in the short term.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

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

Fuller's good navy record won him a short-term appointment to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis,Maryland.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

So, in the short term, I have this internship with General Mills this summer,

所以这个夏天，我会去通用磨坊实习，

事业和人生都重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Their purpose was to explore some of the problems of manned flight, during short periods,in lower space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

That is the lowest point on the earth's land surface so this dramatic drop in just a very short geographical area.

这是地球陆地表面的最低点,这急剧下降是在很短的地理范围内。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

After seven to eight weeks of more sleep, the players ran faster in short training races.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Let's assume that the user typed in a pretty short word we didn't run out of memory or anything crazy so here's the new feature.

假设用户输入,很短的单词，没有出现超出内存之类的问题,这里是新的特点。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The scientists say that in the short term, studies based on the new genome may help explain why the pathogen has been so aggressive.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

So in the sense there is opportunity, and there may be more opportunity in the long run even if kind of the entrepreneurial opportunities are less frothy than they might have been in the short run.

因此从这个意义上讲现在是大好时机，长期来看会有更多的机遇,如果创业的机会不像短期机遇,看起来那么空洞的话。

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

That short scene in the movie made many people in Hollywood talk about Marilyn Monroe.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Okay, well the interesting thing is, you guys in a very short period of time generated a number of ideas about what this could be.

好,有意思的是,大家在很短时间内,猜出了很多种东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And you must know, as I looked on, I saw those men in a short time make the former democracy " look like a golden age."

而我一路看来，所见这些人在短期内的作为,似乎使旧民主,看起来像是进入了全盛时代“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选