I get into the shortest line and the cashier rings me up.

挑了个最短的队伍，收银员叫过来。

Just like I always end up on the shortest line at the bank.

就像在银行排队时 总在最短的那条。

I ended up in every short line.

每次都排到最短的队。

We might use it to unlock our phones, access our virtual wallets, maybe even prove our identity to get in a shorter line at the airport.

可能会用它来解锁手机、访问虚拟钱包，甚至证明自己的身份，以便缩短在机场的排队时间。

Small firms naturally tend to do well in the first category since they have fewer layers of management and thus much shorter communication lines.

自然地，小公司倾向于在第一个指标表现地很好，因为小公司有更少的管理层，所以沟通更为便捷。

Of course, you want to get in the shortest line, but normally, most people are in the longest line.

当然，你想排最短的队，但通常情况下，大多数人都排在最长的队伍里。

Lucy gets " into the shortest line and the cashier rings up" her sale - she rings her up.

西“排到最短的一队，收银员叫她结付”她的东西——叫她结账。

Lucy is lucky and she gets in " the shortest line and the cashier, " " cashier, " rings her up.

西很幸运，她排了“最短的队”，“收银员”，“收银员”叫她。

The shortest line was at Grumpy's checkout.

最短的队伍在爱生气的人的结账柜台。

Her poems had very short lines and sometimes didn't even have a title (a name).

她的诗行很短，有时甚至没有标题（名字）。

And then the other side is the very short line for public access.

另一边则是供公众使用的极短通道。

Like being able to do that short line prediction.

就像能够进行那种短线预测一样。

Short lines, the way that the rhyming scheme is, the way that the structure is.

简短的诗句，押韵的方式，结构的方式。

Wait, you paid money to stand in a shorter security line?

等等，你花钱就是为了站在更短的安检队伍里？

But if I'm like cutting it close, I wanna be in the shortest line.

但如果时间紧迫，就想排最短的队伍。

Arriving early means  shorter lines and more time to enjoy the rides.

早到意味着更短的排队时间和更多时间享受游乐设施。

Sometimes compound nouns are formed by putting a hyphen, a short line in between the two words, a word, for example, like " baby-sitter." A " sitter" is someone who watches something, so a " baby-sitter" is someone who watches babies.

有时，复合名词通过在两个词之间插入一个短横线来构成，例如“baby-sitter” （保姆）。 " Sitter" 指的是照看某物的人，因此 " baby-sitter" 就是照看婴儿的人。

So you're moving yourself, which is at some cost, probably not very much in this case, unless you were like on a short line, you have to move to a much longer line, et cetera, et cetera.

所以你自己移动了一下， 这会有些成本，但在这个情况下可能不会很多，除非你原本在一条很短的队伍里，却不得不移到一条很长的队伍里，等等等等。

We are playing this game and having a good time now or else there's a chance you'll be taking the short line to jail without passing go or collecting your allowance for the next two weeks.

正在玩这个游戏，现在玩得很开心，否则你有可能在接下来的两周内没有通过 go 或领取你的津贴就把短线送进监狱。

About 1898 there opened a period of consolidation in which scores of short lines were united, mainly under the leadership of Northern capitalists, and new through service opened to the North and West.

大约在 1898 年， 开始了一段巩固时期， 其中主要在北方资本家的领导下联合了数十条短线，并向北方和西方开放了新的直通服务。