| 单词 | short |
| 例句 | short adjective 1.•a short piece of string:small, little, tiny | informal teeny. ANT long. 2.•short people:small, little, petite, tiny, diminutive, stubby, elfin, dwarfish, midget, pygmy, Lilliputian, minuscule, miniature | informal pint-sized, vertically challenged, teeny, knee-high to a grasshopper | Scottish wee. ANT tall. 3.•a short report:concise, brief, succinct, compact, summary, economical, crisp, pithy, epigrammatic, laconic, thumbnail, capsule, abridged, abbreviated, condensed, synoptic, summarized, contracted, truncated | formal compendious. ANT long, verbose. 4.•a short time:brief, momentary, temporary, short-lived, impermanent, cursory, fleeting, passing, fugitive, lightning, transitory, transient, ephemeral, quick. ANT long. 5.•money is a bit short:scarce, in short supply, scant, meager, sparse, insufficient, deficient, inadequate, lacking, wanting, tight | rare exiguous. ANT plentiful. 6.•he was rather short with her:curt, sharp, abrupt, blunt, brusque, terse, offhand, gruff, surly, testy, rude, uncivil | informal snappy, snappish. ANT patient, courteous.▶adverb •she stopped short:abruptly, suddenly, sharply, all of a sudden, all at once, unexpectedly, without warning, out of the blue. PHRASES in short •in short, we want you to leave:briefly, in a word, in a nutshell, in précis, in essence, to come to the point | in conclusion, in summary, to sum up. short of 1.•we are short of nurses:deficient in, lacking, wanting, in need of, low on, short on, missing | informal strapped for, pushed for, minus. 2.•short of searching everyone, there is nothing we can do:apart from, other than, aside from, besides, except (for), excepting, without, excluding, not counting, save (for). |
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