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

If we have a high frequency, what about the wavelength, long or short? All right. Good. So we should always be able to keep these relationships in mind.

如果频率高，那波长是长还是短？,好，不错，我们要记住这些关系,类似的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

Yet that short war led to long-term changes for America.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

The topic for this week is cell communication: how mechanisms that cells within a complex organism use to communicate with each other at short distances or long distances.

本周的主题是细胞通讯,即在一个复杂机体中的细胞,采用何种交流机制,在或长或短的距离中相互联系

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

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

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

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

Simmons say Havana has long relied on short wave radio to send encoded messages using a system that converts letters into numbers.

VOA: standard.2009.06.06

So what banks offer is liquidity -the ability to borrow short even though the loans that are made are long-term.

而银行就提供了流动性,即接受短期存款,但可以发放长期贷款的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"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

I think market timing,as I've defined it, has to do with short-term deviations from your long-term policy targets.

正如我之前定义的,市场时机选择,是偏离长期策略目标的,短期操作

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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