Instead of giving all your attention to what you are short of, look at how lucky you already are.

不要把你所有的注意力都放在你所缺少的东西上，看看你已经有多幸运。

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At Christmas, most shops are short of hands, so you may find something to do there.

圣诞节时，大多数商店都缺人手，所以你可以在那里找些事情做。

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You are going to give a short speech of thanks for the speaker this evening, aren't you, Bill?

比尔，你打算为今晚的演讲者做一个简短的致谢演讲，是吗？

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More recent research suggested that those gains are the same whether you exercise for short periods over five days or longer sessions over two or three days.

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if you don't want to use that, you can also derive it as we did every time, it should intuitively make sense how we got there. But the exams are pretty short, so we don't want you doing that every time, so we'll save the 2 minutes and give you the equations directly, but it's still important to know how to use them.

吸收的和发射的，如果你不想用公式,你也可以每次都向我们这样推导它,很直观的就能得到结果，但考试时间很短，我们不希望你们每次都推导,所以我们会直告诉你，让你节省2分钟，但知道如何应用它十分重要。

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If two arrows are equal, you cannot be longer in the x direction and correspondingly short in the y direction.

如果要使两个矢量相等,那么即使 x 分量长一些,y 分量相应地小一些也是不行的

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It does not matter what you are buying or selling when you began the position and why you are long or short.

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When you have a job and a side business, you are incredibly short on time.

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One way to get that effect on the Chicago Merc is to make two trades--one in which you are long dollars and short euros, another in which you are short dollars and long, say, the Swedish krona.

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