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Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
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Highly superior autobiographical memory' ( ' , or HSAM for short), first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named Jill Price.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
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I mean, girls went around in really short skirts, and wore flowers in their hair.
出自-2017年6月聽力原文
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Anxiety and depression more often than not cut short one's life span.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
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And the rises were short-lived: prices typically returned to normal with the next harvest.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
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Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
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"highly superior autobiographical memory" or HSAM for short, first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named jill Price.
2017年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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But in his lifetime, Careme, ever confident, could see beyond his short domination in the kitchen.
2018年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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But in his short lifetime, which ended exactly 184 years ago today, he would forever revolutionize French gourmet food (美食), write best-selling cook books and think up magical dishes for royals and other important people.
2018年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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Francesca Haass, a senior at middlebury, says, "I find the in-class ones are more stressful in the short term, but there is immediate relief as you swallow information like mad, and then you get to forget it all."
2017年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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I thought I'd like to be a policewoman but they turned me down, because I was too short.
2015年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B
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Research now shows that regular quizzes, short essays, and other assignments over the course of a term better enhance learning and retention.
2017年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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So in short, if you like sunny but not too hot summers, mild winters but with lots of cloudy days, Seattle's the place to be.
2019年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
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Some raised more than twice their goals, but others have fallen short of reaching even modest targets.
2019年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
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Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross functional teams.
2017年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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The man who conceives Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his expectations.
2019年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.
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In the short-term, the birds seem to benefit from overwintering ( ' , 過冬) on rubbish dumps.
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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
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That falls far short of the billions of dollars people once expected it to generate.
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Working parents say they feel stressed, tired, rushed and short on quality time with their children, friends and partners.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
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Articles were to be short, readable and uplifting.
2018年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
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In a few short years, he turned the magazine on its head.
2018年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
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In short, success in creating AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilisation.
2019年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C
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Internal recovery refers to the shorter periods of relaxation that take place within the frames of the work day or the work setting in the form of short scheduled or unscheduled breaks, by shifting at physical resources required for the initial task are t
2018年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
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Perhaps one explanation for her mistakes is that she cut short her Suriname trip after getting bick, and completed the book at home in Amsterdam.
2018年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
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The millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable
2016年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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The same held true for people who used products that implied they were short on time.
2017年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C
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The same held true for people who used products that implied they were short on time: In one experiment, for example, customers of the grocery-delivery service Peapod were seen as of higher status than people who shopped at grocery stores that were equall
2017年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C
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They just ask for one questionnaire to be sent out, for example, so the time you spend on an ad-hoc project tends to be fairly short.
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A
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When tim Joseph started his business, he found grass-fed products fell short of demand.
2019年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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You are going to give a short speech of thanks for the speaker this evening, aren't you, Bill?
2017年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A
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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.
例句
The announcement was made a short time ago...
通告是不久前才宣布的。
How could you do it in such a short period of time?...
你是怎么在如此短的時間里做到的?
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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.
例句
For a few short weeks there was peace...
有過短短幾周的和平。
Only five short years later, your money will have grown by $94,000.
僅短短 5 年時間后,你的錢就會增多 94,000 美元。
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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.
例句
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。
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ADJ-GRADED
矮的;個子矮的
Someone who is short is not as tall as most people are.
例句
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...
頭發灰白的矮個子老婦人
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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.
例句
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。
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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.
例句
Her father's illness left the family short of money...
她父親的病造成家里經濟拮據。
Government forces are running short of ammunition and fuel...
政府軍的彈藥和燃料都快用完了。
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ADJ
少于;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.
例句
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?...
那么如果社會黨人得票領先卻又未達到絕對多數,那會怎么樣呢?
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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.
例句
Short of climbing railings four metres high, there was no way into the garden from this road...
除非爬過 4 米高的欄桿,否則從這條路沒辦法進到園子里。
They have no means, short of civil war, to enforce their will upon the minorities.
他們只有通過內戰才能將意志強加給少數派。
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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.
例句
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...
杰克遜提前結束了他的非洲之行。
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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.
例句
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。
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ADJ-GRADED
暴躁的;易怒的
If you have a short temper, you get angry very easily.
例句
...an awkward, self-conscious woman with a short temper.
脾氣暴躁、笨拙又忸怩的女人
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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.
例句
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。
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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.
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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.
例句
Opposite me was a woman called Jasminder (Jazzy for short)...
我對面是一位名叫賈絲明德(簡稱杰絲)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癥,或簡稱 SAD。
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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.
例句
Some people may manage their finances badly and therefore have to go short of essentials.
有些人可能極不善于理財,因而不得不缺衣少食地將就過活。
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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.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
可以說是;簡直;無異于
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.
例句
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。
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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.
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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.
例句
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。
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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.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
(因雇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.
例句
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.
大多數制造商不得不推行短工時工作制。
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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.
例句
The name on the gate pulled me up short.
大門上的名字讓我突然停了下來。
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PHRASE
干凈利落地處理(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.
例句
Agassi made short work of his opponent.
阿加西干凈利落地擊敗了對手。
Noun
1. the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
2. accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
Verb
1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money
2. create a short-circuit in
Adjective
1. primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration;
"a short life""a short flight""a short holiday""a short story""only a few short months"2. primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length;
"short skirts""short hair""the board was a foot short""a short toss"3. low in stature; not tall;
"his was short and stocky""short in stature""a short smokestack"4. not sufficient to meet a need;
"an inadequate income""a poor salary""money is short""on short rations""food is in short supply""short on experience"5. not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices;
"a short sale""short in cotton"6. of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')
7. containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes;
"shortbread is a short crumbly cookie""a short flaky pie crust"8. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so;
"a light pound""a scant cup of sugar""regularly gives short weight"9. used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
10. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range;
"a short memory"11. lacking foresight or scope;
"a short view of the problem""shortsighted policies""shortsighted critics derided the plan""myopic thinking"12. unwilling to endure;
"she was short with the slower students"13. quickly aroused to anger;
"a hotheaded commander"14. most direct;
"took the shortest and most direct route to town"15. marked by rude or peremptory shortness;
"try to cultivate a less brusque manner""a curt reply""the salesgirl was very short with him"Adverb
1. quickly and without warning;
"he stopped suddenly"2. without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold;
"he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"3. clean across;
"the car's axle snapped short"4. at some point or distance before a goal is reached;
"he fell short of our expectations"5. so as to interrupt;
"She took him up short before he could continue"6. at a disadvantage;
"I was caught short"7. tightly;
"she caught him up short on his lapel"8. in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner;
"he told me curtly to get on with it""he talked short with everyone""he said shortly that he didn't like it"