Short skirts tend to ride up when you sit down.

坐下来的时候，短裙就会往上收。

《牛津词典》

Toad jumped, rolled down a short embankment, picked himself up unhurt, scrambled into the wood and hid.

托德纵身一跳，滚下一段短短的路基，毫发无损地爬了起来，爬进树林，藏了起来。

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It is required by law to shut down banks which it regards as chronically short of capital.

法律规定要关闭资金长期短缺的银行。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

If the Fed wants to push the Federal Funds Rate up and down it goes and buys short-term government bonds.

如果联邦希望推动,联邦资金利率上升下降,它将会去买短期的政府债券。

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The poem represents a kind of as does the short poem, "A Coat" represents a kind of ascetic move, an active imaginative and rhetorical stripping-down.

和短诗一件外套一样,这首诗代表了“,一种禁欲主义，主动的想象和对华丽辞藻的摆脱。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Given that -- most realistically, given the handful of days that are left, the best option is a short-term buy-down plan.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

These steps are just a short-term down payment on our larger goal of ensuring that all Americans get the skills and education they need to succeed in today's economy.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on New Training for New Job Creation

If the Fed wants to reduce the longer-term rates that really matter, it must not only get short-term rates down, as it has done, but it must also signal to the market that they will stay down.

ECONOMIST: A stimulating status quo