As Congress waits to hear the outcome of the president's review, there is mounting concern about the ramifications of whatever decisions he makes, both short and long-term impact, for the United States, the South Asian region, and for the war against al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.08.04

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

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

In this case, to optimize for the best of the whole community and the whole user base and over the long term and that's important too, your long over short term.

在这个前提下,去寻求整个社会,以及所有用户的长远利益的最大化,这十分重要，我们寻求长期利益，而非眼前利益。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

In one boxcar, a short man with long, curly brown hair is playing a guitar and singing.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

So, part of the whole process is the elimination of these these municipal privileges and replacing municipal officials, to make a long story short, with people that they have appointed.

他们采取的一个办法,就是取消那些地方政府的特权,更换本土官员,简而言之,就是以近臣取而代之

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

It had rows of long teeth and ten very short legs.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

I mean, to the extent that you're making these short-term bets against your long-term policy, it requires trading and trading is expensive.

我的意思是,在长期策略下进行短期操作,就需要进行交易,而交易是昂贵的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Scheduling decisions made well before the tournament have forced some teams to travel long distances and play on short rest.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Liquidity is that banks lend long and borrow short -short-term, I mean.

流动性是指银行贷长借短,短是指短期

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Short-range test launches are not formally prohibited under United Nations sanctions against the North, which forbid medium and long-range ballistic activities.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

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

"What's on the table so far is quite limited and quite short term, when it needs to be large and long term,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

And just like golf clubs, they are specialized, for long,short and midrange distances.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03