The $10-billion U.S.missile defense program involves a combination of systems designed to detect and intercept missiles coming from short,medium and long distances.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

They are quite unlikable, and this is consistent pretty much across O'Connor's fiction : short, long, medium, whatever.

他们一点都不可爱，这些由始至终贯穿于她的作品里：,短篇的，长篇的，中篇的，无论哪种都是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"But we also have to recognize that if markets are skittish and don't have confidence that we can tackle the tough problems of our medium- and long-term debt and deficits,then that also is going to undermine our recovery."

VOA: standard.2010.06.27