英语释义

• 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"

• 1quickly aroused to anger;

  "a hotheaded commander"

• quickly and without warning;

  "he stopped suddenly"

• 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"

• cheat someone by not returning him enough money

• 1unwilling to endure;

  "she was short with the slower students"

• tightly;

  "she caught him up short on his lapel"

• low in stature; not tall;

  "his was short and stocky"

  "short in stature"

  "a short smokestack"

• at a disadvantage;

  "I was caught short"

• create a short-circuit in

• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so;

  "a light pound"

  "a scant cup of sugar"

  "regularly gives short weight"

• primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length;

  "short skirts"

  "short hair"

  "the board was a foot short"

  "a short toss"

• clean across;

  "the car's axle snapped short"

• used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration

• of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')

• accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

• without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold;

  "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"

• 1lacking foresight or scope;

  "a short view of the problem"

  "shortsighted policies"

  "shortsighted critics derided the plan"

  "myopic thinking"

• 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"

• not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices;

  "a short sale"

  "short in cotton"

• so as to interrupt;

  "She took him up short before he could continue"

• the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base

• 1marked by rude or peremptory shortness;

  "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"

  "a curt reply"

  "the salesgirl was very short with him"

• (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range;

  "a short memory"

• the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

• 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"

• at some point or distance before a goal is reached;

  "he fell short of our expectations"

• 1most direct;

  "took the shortest and most direct route to town"

片语

short cut短路，捷径；快捷方式

short life短使用期限；[核] 短寿命；不耐久的

short position证券或外汇交易中未补抛空差额，欠缺的头寸

short hair短头发

short period短周期的；短过期的

short for是…的略称

short trousers短裤

fall short of达不到；缺乏

short bill