Why are hen's legs so short?

为什么母鸡的腿这么短呢？

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I'd never heard a more soft hearted explanation as to why animal lives are so short.

关于为什么动物的生命如此短暂，我从来没有听到过比这更让人心软的解释。

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He's always been self-conscious about being so short.

他老为自己身材矮小而觉得难为情。

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But the other ones are not so short.

但是其他的不是那么短。

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He's seen me work on long assignments, short assignments, very analytic assignments, very not so analytic assignments.

他见过我处理一些长期任务，短期任务，一些需要大量分析的任务，还有一些不怎么需要分析的任务。

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Because his pants were so short, she could see his legs where his socks ended.

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It was so short of cash that it could not pay taxes, electricity bills or workers' salaries.

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