)short
简略, 短路, 短裤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
同义词：short circuit
3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
同义词：shortstop
动词short:
1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money
同义词：short-change
2. create a short circuit in
同义词：short-circuit
形容词short:
1. primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
2. (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
3. low in stature; not tall
4. not sufficient to meet a need
同义词：inadequate, poor
5. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
同义词：unretentive, forgetful
6. not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
7. of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
8. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
同义词：light, scant
9. lacking foresight or scope
同义词：shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic
10. tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
11. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
同义词：brusque, brusk, curt
副词short:
1. quickly and without warning
同义词：abruptly, suddenly, dead
2. without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
3. clean across
4. at some point or distance before a goal is reached
5. so as to interrupt
6. at a disadvantage
同义词：unawares
7. in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
同义词：curtly, shortly
- 习惯用语
- be taken short 突然想解手[大小便] 毫无准备, 大感意外
- break short off 中断, 突然停止
- bring [pull] up short 使突然中断
- come [drop, fall] short (of) 有缺陷; 达不到目的; 变得短缺的
- cover short (交易所)买回卖空出去的股票
- cut short 中断, 中止; 缩减; 截短
- drop short [口]死
- for short [口]简称; 简略地
- go short (马受伤后)短步前进
- go short of 缺少, 短缺
- in short 简单地说, 总之
- in the short run 在短时期里
- little short of 几乎, 简直, 近乎
- nothing short of 除...外; 别无...; 完全是; 简直可以说
- run short (of) 缺乏
- squeeze the shorts (交易所)轧空头, 迫使卖空者用高价补进
- take sb. up short 唐突地打断(某人)的话 突然袭击某人, 使大吃一惊
- short and sweet [口]直截了当; 简短扼要
- short of 缺少; 达不到; 除了
- the short and the long of it 这事的概略
