People find that health insurance plans are often more willing to pay for short-term therapies than for longer-term treatments.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

It must struggle against events which would help to achieve its goal too rapidly--by a kind of short-circuit.

它会在危险中挣扎,因为危险会太早把它带到终点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

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

It consists of a promise to pay, usually denominated in currency, and there are both long-term and short-term debt instruments.

是一种付款承诺,通常是货币支付形式,有长期债券,以及短期债券

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

But there's more, and this is why novels are long: - not too long, not too short, but of a certain length-- of a certain magnitude, as Aristotle puts it.

但是当然还有很多别的东西，要不这本书也不会那么长：,不是太长，但也不短，刚刚好能说明清楚问题的长度-,亚里士多德这么评价。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

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

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

Interesting. Even though the market seized up very dramatically afterwards and we had some of the most difficult short-term financial consequences of that failure?

有意思，尽管市场严重失灵,我们面临着,许多短期的,非常严重的后果？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

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

How different?" Just so you understand, by this time, my self-esteem is short.

有何不同“，你要知道，那时候，我已经完全被打击了。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The Federal Reserve suggested again that short-term interest rates are likely to remain near zero for some time.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

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

He says these particles would offer a more exact method of transporting the short-lived drug, called B-H-three mimetic.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

Something might be short at one point and become tall at another point, ugly at one point and become beautiful-- like the ugly duckling.

一个事物可能在某一时刻很矮,然后在另一时刻又会变高,某一时刻很丑,然后变得很美,就像丑小鸭一样

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

But long story short, if I want to use a function called sleep, -- the reason I, the programmer, knew to use that library -- -- that header at the top -- because it told me to in this little synopsis.

但长话短说，如果我想要用一个叫做sleep的功能，我作为程序员知道使用那个函数库-,上面的标题-,因为在这个小的大纲中它告诉我。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"In short,our goal is to get G.M.back on its feet, take a hands-off approach and get out quickly."

VOA: special.2009.06.05

But the Florentines, being what they were, rejected this idea and the rule of Savonarola was short-lived.

但佛罗伦萨人的自我意识很强，所以拒绝接受这种想法,当然Savonarola，的统治也就相对短命。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

From a personal perspective... in the short term, I'm actually more career-oriented,

从个人角度来看……短期内，我更看重事业的发展，

事业和人生都重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One of America's best-loved writers of short stories was William Sydney Porter -- better known as O.Henry.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

Listen to how quickly Yeats modulates from one feeling, one image, to another in these really very short, quick, three-beat lines.

听一听叶芝是怎么快速地,从一种情绪，一个情景中，转换到另一个里去的,就在这些三音韵的短诗句中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

One is a sort of short-term type of prediction and that is looking at investing and purchasing products.

其中一个区域主管短期预测,主要在投资和购买物品时发挥作用。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

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

they tend to prefer to bring people on for short-term contracts,

他们都通常喜欢雇佣短期合同工，

英国的影视产业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The markets are saying they're going to go all the way back to one, which was the low for short-term rates.

市场正在表明,他们将会全力以赴回归到，短期利率很低的时代。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选