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

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

But there seems to be as much, if not maybe a bit more work in terms of part-time and short-term jobs.

但是就兼职和短期工而言，工作似乎没变少，可能还更多了。

英国的影视产业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The group's recent "State of the Air" report said Pittsburgh has the worst short-term fine particle pollution in the country.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

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

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

Patience versus short term results and you actually want to have both of those in proper balances, and we're always kind of struggling.

耐心和短期的成果，实际上你,两者都想要，都想做好平衡，我们都在奋斗，都在努力。

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

"I think Dubai went a little bit too fast and they borrowed too much money in a very short period of time."

VOA: special.2009.12.04

We'll be playing a lot of pop music in here but they will generally be short clips of pop music.

我们在这里会放许多 流行音乐,但是通常只放这些流行音乐的小片段

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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

I think one of the most pervasive problems in the financial markets is investment with too short a time horizon.

我认为金融市场上,最为普遍的问题,就是投资期限太短

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.07.07

And the answer--the short answer--is, Socrates, the character Socrates in the play, represents Plato, the author of the play's, philosophical views.

答案是,苏格拉底,即剧中苏格拉底的角色诠释了,戏剧作者自己的哲学观

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In October of eighteen thirty-three, he won a short story contest organized by a local newspaper.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

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

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

It's deliberate that a lot of the examples in lecture are fairly short and bite-size so that you can actually focus on pulling out the key ideas without getting distracted by line and lines of code.

很多的演讲中的例子,是短小的,因此你们可以集中于提取其中的主要思想,而不是被一行行的代码给分心。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

An analysis of four studies found no difference in short-term survival when rescuers followed current guidelines.

VOA: special.2010.09.15

Well, this is interesting, cute fonts, but in point of fact they were short-lived.

非常有趣，字体很可爱，但实际上，它们的存在都很短暂。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.06.09

In your RIS packet, I gave you the short poem "Two Songs from a Play." The first stanza of that interesting poem repeats themes from "The Magi" and "The Second Coming."

我给你们的资料里有首短诗,一出剧里的两支歌,这首有趣的诗的第一节重复了,东方三贤和二次圣临的主题“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Also,in Darwin's time, the age of the Earth was estimated only in the millions of years too short a time some said for evolution to work.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Because very often,with very good intentions, we may fall short of what we are capable of doing, or in some situations,even hurt more than help.

因为很多时候，即使有很好的意愿，我们的能力还是有限，或在某些情况下，我们带来的伤害多于帮助。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

They will not be met easily or in a short span of time.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

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

Just the fear of them settled the argument in favor of Luke Short.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

In short you might say a lack of civic piety or respect.

简言之，你会说那是,缺乏公民虔诚或尊重。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The voices of Aldrin and Armstrong could be heard in short messages.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

So the first half of the book of Joshua contains a streamlined, idealized account according to which the Israelites managed in a relatively short period to take the central hill country, confining the Philistines to a little strip here on the coastal plain. We will come to the Philistines in a minute.

因此《约书亚书》第一部分包含了,一种流线行，理想化的叙述，据此,以色列人在相对较短的时期内设法,攫取中央山地，将腓利士人，逼至狭窄条形地带,逼至海岸平原，我们待会儿将要说到腓利士人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Although, maybe it will be in a short period of time as we continue to grow.

可能随着公司发展,会有所变化。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选