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

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

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

"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

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

Those teams,he said, are also looking at the possible impact - short and long term - of the dispersant that BP has been using.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

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