shorts的中文翻譯是什麼意思

ADJ-GRADED短暫的;短促的;短期的

If something is short or lasts for a short time, it does not last very long.

• The announcement was made a short time ago...

  通告是不久前才宣佈的。

• How could you do it in such a short period of time?...

  你是怎麼在如此短的時間裡做到的？

ADJ-GRADED似乎過得很快的;短暫的

If you talk about a short hour, day, or year, you mean that it seems to have passed very quickly or will seem to pass very quickly.

• For a few short weeks there was peace...

  有過短短几周的和平。

• Only five short years later, your money will have grown by $94,000.

  僅短短 5 年時間後，你的錢就會增多 94,000 美元。

ADJ-GRADED(演講、信件、書等)短的，簡短的

A short speech, letter, or book does not have many words or pages in it.

• They were performing a short extract from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona...

  他們正表演莎士比亞劇作《維洛那二紳士》中的一個片段。

• This is a short note to say thank you.

  這是一封簡短的致謝信。

ADJ-GRADED矮的;個子矮的

Someone who is short is not as tall as most people are.

• I'm tall and thin and he's short and fat.

  我又高又瘦，他又矮又胖。

• ...a short, elderly woman with grey hair...

  頭髮灰白的矮個子老婦人

ADJ-GRADED(距離、長度等)短的，不長的，不遠的

Something that is short measures only a small amount from one end to the other.

• The city centre and shops are only a short distance away...

  市中心和商店離得很近。

• A short flight of steps led to a grand doorway...

  一段短短的臺階通向一個氣派的大門口。

ADJ-GRADED短缺的;不足的

If you are short of something or if it is short, you do not have enough of it. If you are running short of something or if it is running short, you do not have much of it left.

• Her father's illness left the family short of money...

  她父親的病造成家裡經濟拮据。

• Government forces are running short of ammunition and fuel...

  政府軍的彈藥和燃料都快用完了。

ADJ少於;不及;未達到

If someone or something is or stops short of a place, they have not quite reached it. If they are or fall short of an amount, they have not quite achieved it.

• He stopped a hundred yards short of the building...

  他在離大樓 100 碼處停下了。

• So what happens if the Socialists top the poll but fall short of an absolute majority?...

  那麼如果社會黨人得票領先卻又未達到絕對多數，那會怎麼樣呢？

PREP-PHRASE除…之外;沒有;如果不

Short of a particular thing means except for that thing or without actually doing that thing.

• Short of climbing railings four metres high, there was no way into the garden from this road...

  除非爬過 4 米高的欄杆，否則從這條路沒辦法進到園子裡。

• They have no means, short of civil war, to enforce their will upon the minorities.

  他們只有透過內戰才能將意志強加給少數派。

ADV終止;中斷;打斷

If something is cut short or stops short, it is stopped before people expect it to or before it has finished.

• His glittering career was cut short by a heart attack...

  他輝煌的事業因心臟病發作而被迫終止。

• Jackson cut short his trip to Africa...

  傑克遜提前結束了他的非洲之行。

ADJ簡略的;縮寫的;簡稱的

If a name or abbreviation is short for another name, it is the short version of that name.

• Her friend Kes (short for Kesewa) was in tears...

  她的朋友凱斯(凱茜娃的簡稱)眼淚汪汪。

• 'O.O.B.E.' is short for 'Out Of Body Experience'.

  O.O.B.E. 是 Out Of Body Experience (身外體驗)的縮略形式。

ADJ-GRADED暴躁的;易怒的

If you have a short temper, you get angry very easily.

• ...an awkward, self-conscious woman with a short temper.

  脾氣暴躁、笨拙又忸怩的女人

ADJ-GRADED說話簡短粗暴的;簡慢無禮的

If you are short with someone, you speak briefly and rather rudely to them, because you are impatient or angry.

• She seemed nervous or tense, and she was definitely short with me.

  她似乎很焦慮，抑或是很緊張，對我明顯很不客氣。

PHRASE(尤指在一時找不到廁所的情況下)內急，突然感覺要上廁所

If you are caught short or are taken short, you feel a sudden strong need to urinate, especially when you cannot easily find a toilet.

PHRASE作為簡稱;作為縮寫

If a person or thing is called something for short, that is the short version of their name.

• Opposite me was a woman called Jasminder (Jazzy for short)...

  我對面是一位名叫賈絲明德(簡稱傑絲)的女子。

• This condition is called seasonal affective disorder, or SAD for short.

  這種病情叫做季節性情感失調症，或簡稱 SAD。

PHRASE缺乏(尤指食物)

If you go short of something, especially food, you do not have as much of it as you want or need.

• Some people may manage their finances badly and therefore have to go short of essentials.

  有些人可能極不善於理財，因而不得不缺衣少食地將就過活。

PHRASE總之;簡而言之

You use in short when you have been giving a lot of details and you want to give a conclusion or summary.

• Try tennis, badminton or windsurfing. In short, anything challenging...

  試試網球、羽毛球或帆板運動吧。總之，只要是有挑戰性的。

• She was surrounded by doctors, lawyers, housewives — people, in short, like herself.

  她被醫生、律師、家庭主婦——總之是一群像她一樣的人——所包圍著。

PHRASE可以說是;簡直;無異於

You use nothing short of or little short of to emphasize how great or extreme something is. For example, if you say that something is nothing short of a miracle or nothing short of disastrous, you are emphasizing that it is a miracle or it is disastrous.

• The results are nothing short of magnificent...

  結果非常不錯。

• His last visit to Washington was little short of a fiasco.

  他最近對華盛頓的訪問幾乎是一場慘敗。

PHRASE冒傻氣的;不聰明的;愚蠢的;不理智的

If you say that someone is, for example, several cards short of a full deck or one sandwich short of a picnic, you think they are stupid, foolish, or crazy.

PHRASE缺乏，缺少(某種優良品質)

If someone or something is short on a particular good quality, they do not have as much of it as you think they should have.

• He was very short on enthusiasm...

  他太缺乏熱情。

• The proposals were short on detail.

  這些提議缺少細節。

PHRASE險些(做…)；差點沒(做…)

If someone stops short of doing something, they come close to doing it but do not actually do it.

• He stopped short of explicitly criticizing the government...

  他幾乎要直言批評政府了。

• The resolution stopped short of an outright declaration of independence.

  這項決議幾乎成為公開的獨立宣言。

PHRASE(因僱主付不起全工時工錢而出現的)短工時，開工不足

If workers are put on short time, they are asked to work fewer hours than the normal working week, because their employer can not afford to pay them a full time wage.

• Workers across the country have been put on short time because of the slump in demand...

  因需求量大幅下降，全國的工人都開工不足。

• Most manufacturers have had to introduce short-time working.

  大多數製造商不得不推行短工時工作制。

PHRASE使突然終止;使突然中斷

If something pulls you up short or brings you up short, it makes you suddenly stop what you are doing.

• The name on the gate pulled me up short.

  大門上的名字讓我突然停了下來。

PHRASE乾淨利落地處理(或打敗);迅速解決

If you make short work of someone or something, you deal with them or defeat them very quickly.

• Agassi made short work of his opponent.

  阿加西乾淨利落地擊敗了對手。