She was already sure that he must be Peter, but it did seem a comparatively short name.

她已经知道，他一定是彼得，但相比之下，这个名字似乎有点短。

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I started out to write a short story, but it soon developed into a novel.

我起先打算写一篇短篇小说，但很快就写成了长篇小说。

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She's had her hair cut really short, but she can carry it off.

她的头发剪得太短了，不过她还是若无其事的样子。

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But learning so much of it in such a short time, that's a big scramble -- and they have to know it from memory."

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That I think is a real virtue but it can come at the price of demanding short term accountability.

我认为这是个优点，但是可能会,付出短期责任的代价。

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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。

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Short of a merger, this may be the next best thing, but it falls short of a true global singular entity of the kind that WorldCom is forging through acquisitions.

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But it falls short of measuring additional impacts on the humans involved in the production process.

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The story detailed how local cadres cut corners, but it stopped short of assigning responsibility by name.

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