A straight line is the shortest distance between two points.

一条直线是两点之间的最短距离。

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Measured in a straight line represents the distance between two points.

以直线量度单位表示的两点之间的距离。

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The shortest distance between two points involves going through an alley.

两点之间最短的距离包括穿越小巷。

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It creates as a distance between two points, rather than a straight line, an arabesque.

它加长了两点之间的距离，使它变得非直而曲。

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In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.

也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。

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The longer the distance between the two points in physical space, the more effort it takes to get an object from point A to point B.

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Einstein's theory of relativity unified these and created a four-dimensional space that is an analogue to our three-dimensional space, except that the "distance" between two points need not be positive.

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