nearsightedness，myopia，lack foresight，be shortsighted ；

[例句] 我认为不开采我们自己的煤是非常短视的做法。 I think we're being very short sighted in not exploiting our own coal.

[例句] 政治上的短视会给我们带来严重的后果。 Myopic views could be potentially damaging for us

stub，cosh ；

[例句] 他被大头短棒连击致死. He had been bludgeoned to death.

[例句] 他停住脚步,用短棒把轿车的挡泥板敲了几下. He was abreast of the limousine. He tapped its fender with his nightstick.

brachyplast，brachyblast，dwarf shoot，stud ；

[例句] 短枝在生长季前期缓慢延长生长. These spurs produce short extension growth in the early part of the season.

[例句] 切勿弄掉无叶的短枝或枝头, 每年的新花就是在其上面形成的. Do not remove the leafless spurs or stubs, on which new flowers appear every year.

short essay，essay，tractate ；

[例句] 她1930年写了篇女性主义的短文《论节育》。 She produced a feminist tract, "Comments on Birth-Control", in 1930.

[例句] 阅读这篇短文很有启发。 Reading this essay was an elevating experience.

brachytmema，truncation，truncature，[林] dock ；

[例句] 一截短链条 a short length of chain

[例句] 我的连衣裙太长了,我得把它截短些. My dress is too long I must shorten it.

ephemeral，transient，[经] short-lived，brief，fugacious ；

[例句] 短暂的休息后，乐队继续演奏他们的曲目。 The band continued with their set after a short break.

[例句] 在他短暂的一生里，他只出版过3卷薄薄的诗集。 He published only three slim volumes of verse in his short life.

[剧] hand-to-hand fight in tights，bunt ；

[例句] 他一身短打装扮,干净利索. He looks very neat in Chinese - style jacket and trousers.

[例句] 短打认识,推球,切球, 削球, 沙坑击球. Understanding short game , Putting , Pitching, Chipping, Bunker play.

strong and weak points，right and wrong，accident，short and long ；

[例句] 她的头发很短, 长着一对亮晶晶的蓝眼睛. She had very short hair, and her eyes were very bright blue.

[例句] 法国人的早餐咖啡和英国人的火腿蛋互争短长. The Frenchman's breakfast coffee competes with the Englishman's bacon and eggs.

bob，dock，clip ；

[例句] 她有一头剪短了的灰白头发。 She had cropped grey hair.

[例句] 她把头发剪短并染成了金黄色。 She cropped her hair and dyed it blonde.

versicle ；

[例句] 剧作家奥斯卡.王尔德以他的诙谐短诗着称. The playwright Oscar Wilde was noted for his epigrams.

[例句] 他最擅长的是写抒情短诗. He is at his best in short lyrics.

[音] cornet，cornette，cornopean ；

[例句] 他在学校乐队吹奏短号. He played the cornet in the school band.

[例句] 酗酒的小成本会计师和他那吹短号的兄弟. The drunken little costdrawer and his brother, the cornet player.

[经] short，short-landed ；

[例句] 食物短缺的情况很普遍。 Food shortages are widespread.

[例句] 在战争期间常常发生粮食短缺的情形. Food shortages often occur in time of war.

alligator ；

[例句] 他正在环礁湖里与一只短吻鳄搏斗。 He was grappling with an alligator in a lagoon.

[例句] 短吻鳄产于美洲和中国的江湖及湿热地带. Alligator lives in the rivers and lakes in the hot wet parts of America and China.

prescind ；

[例句] 他们把这头牛的角切短了. They polled the cattle.

[例句] 这个工件不需要切短. This workpiece doesn't need to be cut short.

brachyrhinia ；

[例句] 短鼻蝗属一新种 ( 直翅目: 蝗总科 ) A NEW SPECIES OF FILCHNERELLA KARNY ( Orthoptera: Acridoidea )

[例句] 短 、 相当深, 脑袋宽, 面颊的咬合肌非常发达, 明显的止部, 口吻短, 鼻镜为黑色. Short, deep through, broad skull, very pronounced cheek muscles, distinct stop, short foreface, black nose.

bobtail，scut ；

[例句] 不要去欺负流浪狗和短尾猿。 Do not tease roaming dogs and macaque.

[例句] 斯达姆比是只认真 、 守规矩的短尾大棕狗. Stumpy was a large, serious, well - behaved brown dog with a short tail.

short，[法] shore ；

[例句] 他边听边点头，还吸着一支粗短的烟斗。 He nodded and puffed on a stubby pipe as he listened.

[例句] 它粗短的尾巴上鬃毛浓密。 It has a short stumpy tail covered with bristles.

momently，transitorily ；

[例句] 他们去了自行车棚的后面，短暂地拥吻了一下。 They went for a quick snog behind the bike sheds.

[例句] 在唱完最近的畅销歌曲之后, 他们短暂地休息了一下. After they sang all the latest hits, they took a short break.

deficient，insufficient，lack，be short of ；

[例句] 店里的苹果已经亏短了,需要补货! The apples in the store are insufficient so we need to purchase more.

short，shortdated，short-term ；

[例句] 就短期的实际情况来说, 黄金价值却是任何人都吃不准的事情. For any practical short run, gold's value is anybody's guess.

[例句] 姚伯回来看他母亲,只是短期的勾留. Yeobright's visit to his mother was to be of short duration.