People will happily open a short "Tip of the Day", but almost no one wants to get something longer than that every single day.

人们很乐意打开一个题为“今日提示”的邮件，但没人愿意每天都受到比这个标题长的邮件。

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If you have a big hole that's open for a short time, it's kind of like having a small hole that's open for a longer time.

一个短暂开启的大洞事实上和一个长时间开启的小洞基本无异。

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Mom could not move or speak, and could only hold her eyes open for a short period of time, but her mind was alert.

母亲已经不能移动和说话了，只能坚持极短的时间睁着眼睛，但是她的意识依然清醒。

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The fifty-nine year old Watson needed to make a short attempt on his final hole to win the British Open.

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"When you have a large open short position and not enough physical barrels to cover your short when the contracts expire, " says Paul MacAvoy, professor emeritus at the Yale School of Management.

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Now the SEC said it might repropose amendments to the so-called options market-maker exemptions, which allow options firms to hold open short positions in stocks to hedge their options positions in ways that aren't allowed for other traders.

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The number of shares short is then compared to the average daily volume, in order to calculate the total number of trading days it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed.

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