The two unequal shorter sides of the curvilinear trapezoid of each building change their geometry every two floors.

每隔两层，每幢建筑曲线梯形的两条不相等的短边就会改变其几何形状。

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Stonebridge is one of the shorter tracks, but very steep as it takes you up to the waterfall and you do need to be in good condition to manage it.

石桥是较短的路线之一，但是非常陡峭，因为它将带您直达瀑布，而且您确实需要在良好状态下才能应对。

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Staying late at the office to discuss shorter working hours rather defeats the object of the exercise !

迟迟待在办公室讨论缩短工作时间恰恰是在阻挠这一目标的实现！

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But Dr.Brown says fingertips are not often reattached if they are the length of a fingernail or shorter.

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The amount of time that each chord is holding is getting shorter and shorter and shorter as we drive into that cadence.

每个和弦持续的时间变得越来越短,越来越短，将我们带进这一段音乐的终止式。

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Yeah. Log. It's a good think, but why do you think it's log? Ah-ha. It's not a bad instinct, the length is getting shorter each time, but what's one of the characteristics of a log algorithm? It drops in half each time.

对了，对数，这是个好想法,但是你们为什么认为是对数呢？,啊哈，这样的本能不错，每次长度都会缩小些,但是对数算法的特性是什么。

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"With some new players coming into the team for the shorter format of the game, I don't think there's too much baggage there, " Finch said.

BBC: Chris Woakes plays down talk of England World Cup spot

Ganguly and Mohammad Kaif have not been picked for the opening one-dayers because of injury and fellow batsman VVS Laxman has been dropped, leaving room for Test opener Gautam Gambhir to try and prove himself in the shorter form of the game.

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The larger the denomination of the bill, the shorter its period of being legal tender.

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